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Still figuring out what to do for Christmas

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I’m still not sure what I’m doing for Christmas this year. My husband might be working Christmas eve and Christmas evening so I might be pretty much on my own. I’ve been on my own a lot lately so I guess I’m getting used to that – but still – on such a major holiday – not so nice.

If my husband ends up working I might end up going over to my sisters. She going to have her boyfriend, daughter and son over Christmas eve and I’m sure some of them will be around Christmas day as well. I need to see all of them at some point anyway as I have to get their gifts to them. I found some great stuff for each of them, but I think my nephew might like his gift best. He’s quite sport and I found a speedglas helmet for him that he’s going to love or that I think he’ll love. We’ll see.

What are your plans for the holidays – are you on your own, doing something at your home or going to a friends or a member of your families for the holidays?





My Christmas Dog

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I don’t usually dress up my dog – not on holidays or at any time of year, but for some reason I saw those cute red antlers in a pet store and I decided that I wanted my Lab to have them.

So how do you like my Christmas dog?

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She actually seemed to like wearing the antlers – well as long as they were behind her ears. She even picked them up and carried them around which really surprised me. I haven’t taken her out wearing them – I really only bought the antlers to take pictures of her wearing them, but maybe we’ll do a walk around the neighborhood on Christmas eve or Christmas day with the antlers on.

I love how my neighborhood changes from season to season

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I’ve been taking a close look at several of the houses in my neighborhood when I take my dog out for a walk each day. It’s interesting to see the changes the houses go through each season. Many houses are decorated for the houses right now and the neighborhood is quite pretty at night.

One thing that I’ve noticed that several houses who have done some landscaping have done is to get a really nice address plaque. Some of my neighbors have built their address plaques into their stone edging surrounding their property. I’m sure I’m describing it properly but lets say the stone surrounds the property like a short fence and the number plaque is embedded in the stone. It’s very nice when it’s done well. I like the look of some of the address plaques so much that I went looking for some and I found a address plaques from addressplaques.net that I really like, I just have to decide if I want to buy it for our house now and where I might put it.

Do you have a nice address plaque on your house or just plain numbers? Oh and do you change the look of the outside of your home depending on the seasons? By this I mean do you decorate for the holidays or plant flowers outdoors in the spring and summer?

I want to make some home made wine

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I think it’s been at least a year since I signed up to several sites like Groupon and Social Living. I love getting the emails that tell me about local deals even though I rarely buy into any of the offers.

One of the offers that I wish I’d bought into, that I’ve seen a few times in the past but haven’t seen for months, is from a wine making company. It was a deal to make something like 40 or 50 bottles of wine for about $50. Sounds too good to be true – right?

So now I’m watching every email that comes in from all of these daily deal companies hoping for a wine making deal. I just haven’t seen one for quite a while. It’s so odd. I even priced out a wine chiller for when our wine would be ready if we managed to get a bargain.

Have you made wine at at wine making company? Did it go well, did you enjoy the wine you made?

Shopping from home tonight

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You’d never know it, but I’m shopping right now … yep, I am. The great thing is- it’s cold outside and I didn’t even have to dress for the weather. I’m doing all my shopping online tonight.

I’m trying to get a little bit of my Christmas shopping done. I’m not sure how successful I’ll be, but I do think that I found an interesting gift idea for one of my nephews. Whenever he comes over he always has his things and his laptop in a ratty old knapsack and I think it might be a good idea to get him one of these jansport backpacks I’m sure he’d love it. Yes, I might just get that for him.

Now if only I could think of what else to get for everyone else on my list! Just after Christmas I’m going to be going to see my brother and his girlfriend and I haven’t seen them for quite a while. I’d love to get them something special but I have no idea what they’d like. I know, I’ll give them a call tomorrow night and see if I can get some ideas from them – carefully of course.

How are you doing as far as buy gifts on your list goes? Are you done yet?

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