Why on the last day of the year do my brakes go out in my truck? There is no way to get the truck to the shop in time to get the brakes repaired today, so I will be without my truck for at least two days and maybe three days. I will have to take my car to work tonight, I hate to do that to my car it is not made to haul all the junk I haul everyday like my Tahoe is. I carry a lot of books and crates of teacher gadgets to work. I guess I will have to do all of that after I get my truck back from the shop.
Day of rest
All of the cookies are made, and all of the Christmas presents are wrapped and under the tree. All of our extended family are in their beds for the night, ready to get out of bed tomorrow and have a joy filled Christmas. Now I can sit down and put my feet up. My work is all done and I am very pleased with the results. I made some great Christmas cookies and the presents we selected for our nephew will make the day a grand one in his memory. WAIT what was that noise on the roof?
Christmas cookies
Today was the day to bake my Christmas cookies for friends family and the folks at work. All told I had to bake 14 dozen cookies which took me most of the day. I almost am ready to run off screaming if I ever see another cookie. At least they taste good and are much fresher than the store bought cookies. I had a lot of help, my nephew was here and he helped me…..well kinda! It was nice to have a small one underfoot and it made the day seem a lot happier and almost time for Christmas again. It comes so fast once we get to December.
Clean up
We have been trying to get the yard cleaned up and all the leaves raked up but, as soon as we make some headway on it we get another storm that blows more leaves from our neighbor’s yard into our freshly raked yard. That is one thing I really dislike about this time of year; the leaves go everywhere and we try to keep ours raked up and we get more leaves that could ever be on our trees. Once we get the last ones up it will be spring and we will not have to worry about the mess anymore.
Stress
You do not know stress until you try to fit your size 14 butt into a pair of size 12 jeans that are on sale. Men have no idea what stress is. Jobs are not stressful. Shopping at Christmas time is very stressful. I do not mean going into Wal-Mart at midnight on Christmas Eve to grab up the stuff that no one else wanted… that is not shopping. Making a list and finding everything on your list is shopping! Now back to those jeans, I wonder if I can lose the weight to make them fit by summer, they ARE on sale you know.