Happy Monday to you!!
The last Monday in November...and officially "Cyber Monday" -- the latest in holidays, brought to you by the Shoppers' Guild of America.
Okay. Okay. There's no such thing as the SGA (that I know of), but "Cyber Monday" is a true "watched day of the year" nowadays. Who'd have thought it? The Monday after Thanksgiving designated as the biggest online shopping day of the year. It's a whole new world out there...
Anyways...
Hope you and yours enjoyed a wonderful Thanksgiving.
The countdown remains on hold, pending any decisions made at today's negotiations between the Writers' Guild and the studios.... Fingers crossed that they'll come to some kind of agreement and get back to writing scripts for all of our favorites. In the meantime, I've been catching up with Life online and The Closer, Season 2 offline. SEASON 6 OF 24 COMES OUT NEXT TUESDAY....not that I'm excited or anything....
Heard in the car on our way to Thanksgiving dinner:
Emily: Conservatives...aren't they the ones who take stuff from stores? Stuart: No, that would be shoplifters. Me: I think you meant consumers.
After we saw a rat(!) cross the road...
Edward: I think that rat came from that building we just passed. It said 'Ratting Cages.' Stuart: Those were batting cages....it's a sports complex.
You have to love the way kids think. Ours are always coming up with funny interpretations of what they hear us talking about. Their little brains are processing everything at such amazing speeds. That's probably the reason they have a hard time hearing us....all that whirring and beeping and buzzing going on inside their heads. That's one theory anyway.
New week, new song, new schedule...all heading towards the busyness of the holidays.
Back to the grind...
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5 THINGS TO BE HAPPY ABOUT
• a favorite mug
• leftover-turkey sandwiches
• starting a holiday shopping list
• violin music
• relaxing by the fireplace
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Edward's 2006 wishlist...he was 5.
I love when our kids write their holiday lists and present them to us with the utmost faith in our fulfilling every wish, whim, and detail on them.
I always think they should just grab the nearest toy catalog and say, "Please, Mother and Father darlings, will you buy me every item in this humble book?"
Of course, that would be ridiculous since we'd need to buy them each their own house to go with said catalog-load of toys.
I wonder why we don't encourage more useful gift ideas such as "tuition at today's prices" or savings bonds or even shares in Google or Godiva Chocolate?
The answer is simple.
Because then we -- the parents -- couldn't play with their gifts after they've gone to bed....
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