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Christmas Party this weekend

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This weekend my husband and I will be going to a Christmas / birthday party at a friends house. Well … depending on the weather. The party is out of town – about a two hour drive, so if it’s snowing or if the weather is really bad we probably won’t go, but otherwise we plan to be there.

I haven’t been to a good party for a while. I already picked out the dress I’m going to wear – a little black dress of course, and jewelry – maybe my sapphire earrings and a blue chamilia beads necklace.

Our friend that’s holding the party always goes all out. She makes dinners that are course after course after course. I mean – you sit there for hours eating! I’m thinking of maybe making a cheesecake to bring with me to the party, but knowing how much food she’ll probably make I probably don’t need to bake a cake.

Hopefully the weather cooperates and we end up going to the party. I’m looking forward to going.





Buying a Light Therapy Unit

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Well I’m off to Costco. My doctor seems to think that my extreme tiredness and intolerance of cold is due to having Seasonal Affective Disorder – even though intolerance of cold temperatures is not part of the syndrome at all. Anyway … I’m going to Costco to pick up one of those special light therapy units.

I figure, even if I don’t have S.A.D. it will help with my strange sleep patterns – as in maybe I can use the light to reset my inner clock.

While I’m there I might take a look t a netbook. I’ve been reading netbook reviews and the last time I was at Costco I noticed that they had really good prices for their Netbooks … so I might as well take a better look and see if they have any of the brands and models that I read about and what they’re selling them for just to compare.

Now to start putting on the sweaters and my coat … it’s freezing! Is it cold in your area too?

I’ll be baking cookies and more cookies this weekend

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I think I’m gearing up for another baking session this weekend. I don’t know why I’ve become so interested in baking in the last couple of weeks, but my husband is loving it.

Earlier this week I found a few more recipes that I’d like to try making this weekend. One of them is the Cinnamon Swirl Brioche that I mentioned a few days ago, and the rest are cookies.

In particular I plan on making three types of cookies this weekend.

One cookie is called a Sugar Crackle Gingerbread Cookie. It’s not a gingerbread man cookie it’s a round cookie and it looks delicious. I love gingersnaps and other types of ginger cookies and the recipe for this cookie sounds delicious. The second cookie recipe that I’d like to try is a recipe that I found on Southern Plate called “Dishpan Cookies”. The cookies are made with oatmeal and cornflakes and they look like huge old fashioned oatmeal cookies.

The last cookie recipe that I plan to make is “Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies”. Mmmmm Decadent sounding. I love nothing more than chocolate and these cookies look delicious.

I think my house is going to smell fantastic again this weekend. Oh and I’m sure everything will be covered in flour again too – including my danze faucet! That’s the one thing I don’t like about cooking and baking – the cleaning or clean up.

We can’t really afford to buy a lot of Christmas presents for our family this year, but since I’m on a baking spree (and we have most of the ingredients I’m using here at home already so it’s not costing much) maybe I’ll make up some “home made” presents. That might work.

Automatic HD channels

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I received an email earlier this week from my cable provider. Apparently they are starting a new service called Auto HD. What this means is that whenever I tune my TV to a standard television station that also comes in an HD version my TV will automatically start showing me the HD version of the channel.

Pretty cool.

Of course, I’m assuming that if we didn’t subscribe to HD channels this service wouldn’t work for us.

The only problem that I can see with this service is that sometimes I chose to tune to a non HD station on purpose. Say when I’m watching an older show … perhaps a comedy from the 70’s or something? These shows weren’t filmed in HD and they don’t look all that great on my big screen to begin with so why would I want to watch them on an HD channel? LOL I already wish that for most shows filmed in HD that all the actors would use a good blackhead remover but the old shows are even worse.

Anyway … I don’t know if my cable provider is ahead of the game or behind. Does your cable provider offer auto HD too?

My husband really needs a new job

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I can’t believe that tomorrow is the start of December! The months have just been flying by this year.

Unfortunately I’m dreading the end of the year and the beginning of the new year. Money is going to be really tight for us around that time. My husband is going to be going through yet another temporary lay off at work. A two week lay off at the end of December.

So that means we really can’t spend any extra money in December at all and more than likely it would be best to spend less than normal. Yeah … nice time of year to try to do that huh? Something tells me that come the end of December those TV commercials for payday advance loans will be looking pretty good. LOL

January will be the hardest month for us. Chris will get his normal pay cheques in December, but his his first pay cheque in the first week of January will be for zero dollars because he won’t have worked for the previous two weeks thanks to the lay off. That means that his first real pay in January won’t be until something like the 20th … so considering I’m still stuck at home on unpaid medical leave January is going to be a very tight month. I’m not looking forward to it.

I guess other than for bills and groceries there will be no extra money spent this month. So much for Christmas! I think my husband had better start looking for a new job and fast!

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