Nothing stops a cold sweat like finding the document you have been looking for for two months, which is needed for a legal proceeding on Monday or else the case will be thrown out of court. Phew.
The kids saw “James and the Giant Peach” the other day and LOVED it. Like – wanted to watch it again as soon as it was over. I didn’t think they were that into it, but when I told CootieBoy that I sent it back to Netflix he actually CRIED. Who knew? Why do kids love that book/movie so much? I don’t get it.
Watched about 20% of the third “Pirates of the Carribean” movie last night. Couldn’t stay awake, and since I haven’t seen the other two movies since they came out, I couldn’t remember ANYthing of what was going on. I’ll try and watch it tonight. It did look amazing on Blu-Ray though.
Mr. BIL’s Christmas present is coming along nicely. Tomorrow I have to run to a craft store to pick up one item, but the big item I need to put everything together should be arriving today via UPS. I’ll put it all together over the weekend. I was also majorly saved by a friend of mine who is a graphic designer. I emailed him asking a favor, and he said he normally doesn’t do graphic design favors, but would since we go back almost 15 years. What he did in one hour was something I couldn’t have done in 100 hours. He ROCKS. He went well and above my expectations and in the process allowed me to divide my gag gift into two parts – thus upping my coolness factor when I give this gift to Mr. BIL.
CootieGirl’s toe infection is slowly getting better. I wrapped it VERY tightly last night and I think that helped. It’s still purple and gross looking, but at least the swelling has gone down. She should be able to wear normal shoes by Christmas.
We got all our Christmas cards out. I sent out half a dozen on Wednesday, then that night we did another 90% of them. Then this morning I sent out the last 6-7 we still needed to send. It’s nice to have that out of the way. Really, the only Christmas-related thing I have left to do is stocking stuffers for Denis and the kids and wrap up a couple minor presents that I forgot about that Denis reminded me of this morning.
I have been emailing a mommy on my mommy forum about the fish tank I intended to buy from her for CB’s Santa gift, and since December 4 she hasn’t written me back. The last message from her (on the 4th) was that she’d clean the tank and let me know when I could pick it up. I’ve emailed her twice since then and gotten nothing in response. So I may email her back and tell her forget it and buy a tank from another mommy that emailed me. I predict that’ll have her emailing me back to tell me it’s ready for pickup.
Cooper The Dog is recovering nicely from his surgery. He is still wearing the cone because he keeps scratching at the spot where the surgery was. And while it is healed, it’s still sensitive and his scratch makes it begin to open back up. So the cone stays for a lot longer than originally anticipated!
