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1. We bought our Christmas tree today; it's sitting out in the hallway defrosting. We'll be decorating that bad boy tomorrow. I think. It's a bit of a miracle tree since it took Dar and me about 10 minutes to pick it out, get it trimmed and wrapped and stuffed into the trunk. Which first had to be de-iced before I could open it. Usually Dar takes at least 30 minutes to find a tree she likes, and there's much hauling up of trees and turning to get all angles and determining of the straightness of the trunk. Today? Second one we saw. This miracle was most probably helped along by the fact that it was -8C/20F, and Dar didn't have her hat or gloves :)
2. I got a little more Christmas shopping done today, but the rest is going to have to wait until next week. I can't shop online because I don't have an active credit card. I canceled my US one because they were changing their policy, and Canadian credit cards have insane interest rates so I didn't apply for one here. (They just don't have the population numbers it takes to force competition.) It'll all work out, I'm sure.
3. I have no icons and I must scream. (Harlan Ellison reference. Anyone? Anyone?) I lost my hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of icons when my hard drive died; I only have the ones that were active in my LJ account back when I had the extra icon package. I'm grateful for those, but none of them were holiday or season specific. I tried searching for icon communities on LJ, but it returned a grand total of 25 communities. That's craziness! So how do you go about searching out icon communities these days. I used to get lists of hundreds of communities, not these paltry few. I'm lost; I admit it.
4. I love alpacas. And cats.
5. Speaking of cats - while we were out running errands this morning, I stopped at my favorite pet supply store in Elmira. It's independently owned and carries a funky array of top quality cat foods. The nice thing is that they frequently sell sample bags so you can try a smaller amount before you invest in a full bag. I bought four different kinds along with some super catnip that the guys love. I walked into the house with the pet food bag and Pixel went nuts! I thought it was the catnip, but no . . . she was trying to claw her way into the food. So I opened up the Orijen "biologically appropriate dry cat food," and all three cats dug in. This one had, among other things, chicken, turkey, chicken livers, eggs, and russet potatoes. Sounds good to me.
6. I can't believe that the year is almost over. It seems that just when I'm getting used to writing one year, we forge on ahead to the next. Slow down, time, OK? I remember my parents and aunts & uncles always talking about how quickly time passes the older you get, and I didn't really get it. Now I do. It's just zipping, guys.
7. And the day zipped by, too. Night, all.
2. I got a little more Christmas shopping done today, but the rest is going to have to wait until next week. I can't shop online because I don't have an active credit card. I canceled my US one because they were changing their policy, and Canadian credit cards have insane interest rates so I didn't apply for one here. (They just don't have the population numbers it takes to force competition.) It'll all work out, I'm sure.
3. I have no icons and I must scream. (Harlan Ellison reference. Anyone? Anyone?) I lost my hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of icons when my hard drive died; I only have the ones that were active in my LJ account back when I had the extra icon package. I'm grateful for those, but none of them were holiday or season specific. I tried searching for icon communities on LJ, but it returned a grand total of 25 communities. That's craziness! So how do you go about searching out icon communities these days. I used to get lists of hundreds of communities, not these paltry few. I'm lost; I admit it.
4. I love alpacas. And cats.
5. Speaking of cats - while we were out running errands this morning, I stopped at my favorite pet supply store in Elmira. It's independently owned and carries a funky array of top quality cat foods. The nice thing is that they frequently sell sample bags so you can try a smaller amount before you invest in a full bag. I bought four different kinds along with some super catnip that the guys love. I walked into the house with the pet food bag and Pixel went nuts! I thought it was the catnip, but no . . . she was trying to claw her way into the food. So I opened up the Orijen "biologically appropriate dry cat food," and all three cats dug in. This one had, among other things, chicken, turkey, chicken livers, eggs, and russet potatoes. Sounds good to me.
6. I can't believe that the year is almost over. It seems that just when I'm getting used to writing one year, we forge on ahead to the next. Slow down, time, OK? I remember my parents and aunts & uncles always talking about how quickly time passes the older you get, and I didn't really get it. Now I do. It's just zipping, guys.
7. And the day zipped by, too. Night, all.
