We had a quiet Christmas. The Wonderful Spouse was sick, so he spent most of the day in bed. Let me tell all WS's co-workers, Thanks for going to work while you were sick, so you could spread the joy around! Anyway, we finally opened present about 1:30, then WS went back to bed for a while.
Cop Car and her Hunky Husband gave us something that is always the right color and always the right size. No returning that gift for sure!
I got WS a bunch of long underwear (he is always wearing that out since he works in a steel shop and welding tends to take its toll on clothing). I also got him an electric shaver, which he had expressed interest in a month or so ago. Have you ever gone out to buy an electric shaver? I didn't realize that there were so many choices to make: self cleaning (and sometimes charges the battery at the same time), useable in the shower, dispenses goop goo (no nasty comments on that one), travel pack, has beard trimmers etc. etc. Of course there aren't shavers that you can dispense goo, use in the shower AND are self cleaning (or at least I couldn't find one - but then I wasn't going to look at all 99 brands/types that were available). I also didn't realize that you could spend up to $175 on this stuff! Anyway I got him a Norelco Advantage 6735X shaver.
WS got me the two things I really wanted - but I had told him to keep spending to a minimum (since I don't know when I will find employment) - so I really wasn't expecting either item. One was a new stero for my truck. My old stereo still worked fine, as long as I only wanted to listen to 3 stations. The only way to change the channels was to "search" and the search function quit working last summer. Then, the 6 pre-sets freaked out and I ended up the same stations on the bottom 3 buttons as I had on the top 3 buttons. He ended up getting me an Alpine CDM-9801 - installed. He got a great deal on the stereo adn they installed it for free! That sneaky guy took my truck to work on Wednesday, saying he had to pick up something big and needed to keep it dry (it rained that day - lucky for him, made his story plausible). Since he only had to work a couple of hours that day, he took it in and had it installed.
He also got me a new wedding ring. I had lost my old one somewhere out in the woods, in a pile of leaves last spring, and my finger has felt naked since then. Fortunatly, I am not a flash and glamour type girl, so the ring is pretty basic (and cheap, cost-wise) - just a gold band with some diamond chips in it. Although I haven't seen the reciept yet, I am fairly certain that it was cheaper to buy a new ring than to buy a decent metal detector to find the old ring. I'll have to go in and have it sized since I have small fingers (size 4 1/2 or 5 for my ring finger), so can't wear it yet - but I love it!
I had pet-sitting critters to take care of, so I left late afternoon and gave them extra attention and extra food (don't tell the owners) for their holiday treats.
We had invited Jim over for Christmas dinner, since his family has moved to Florida, we knew that he didn't really have any place to go. I had plopped a ham in the crockpot that morning and made mashed potatoes/gravy, green bean casserole and rolls to go with it. I made a pumpkin pie on Wednesday, so we had that for dessert. While we were eating dinner, we watched The Shadow on TV, and that was pretty much it for the day.
All-in-all, we had a great Christmas (except for that bug that WS got). Hope everyone else had a safe and happy Christmas!
Bogie, I'm telling ya, you're going to have to let WS weld that ring to your finger. You keep losing them.
Cool stereo. Isn't it great to have tunes again? Except for the bug, glad you had a great day.
Posted by: Wichi Dude | December 26, 2003 at 10:28 AM
WS said that if I lost this one, then he would get one out of a bubblegum machine and use a welder to melt the plastic to my finger!
Hey, and I've only lost one ring - I just lost the first one twice!
Posted by: Bogie | December 26, 2003 at 12:49 PM
..hope ws is feeling better :^)...just noticed you is a flappy bird - how did you manage that?...I have no idea what is happening but I'm a mere slimy mollusc :^(..
Posted by: billy | December 28, 2003 at 02:27 PM
I managed by having superior writings that everyone wanted to link to!
Ok, now that the funny stuff is done, I raised in ratings because of my beying layed-off. A whole bunch of people linked to that post, so my links went up.
If you notice though, sometime between when you commented, and when I replied, I became a Slithering Reptile again. That is because two of the links have slid off the front pages of their blogs, so are no longer counted.
Posted by: Bogie | December 29, 2003 at 07:20 AM
How lovely that he gave you another wedding ring! This last week I've been without the watch that DH gave me. I have four or five places where I generally lay it when I take it off, and I haven't found it yet. He assures me that we will find it, and I hope he's right. I need to take my Mickey watch in for a new battery if we don't find the good watch soon.
I hope WS is feeling better now. Too bad the flu made for a quiet holiday.
Posted by: Buffy | January 02, 2004 at 01:18 AM
Buffy: I hope that watch is found - but if not, I'm sure DH will find another special one for you!
Posted by: Bogie | January 02, 2004 at 07:01 AM