Countdown to Christmas

So, it's already December 2nd, only 22 more shopping days to find that Perfect Gift for that Special Someone.......Blingdaddy and I have commenced with the shopping. (Of course, it's all because Blingdaddy is prodding me along - left to my own devices, not ONE Christmas gift would have been purchased yet.....)

I have been Cooking for the Fields'''' (dang, those apostrophe thingies always stump me!), and Tom wants to know why I cook for Aimee but not for HIM! Hmmmmm, take a wild guess here, pardner - Aimee (and company) LIKES my cooking and EATS EVERYTHING I MAKE. :) Bless you who like my cooking. Today I whipped up some Split Pea and Barley soup, and yesterday I conjured up some Autumn Stew, white wine, squash, and all! Quite tasty, I believe, although I have not actually gotten to eat any myself yet! LOL I did manage to scarf down some of the split pea soup today before bringing some to Aimee......Apologies to Miss A, though, because I meant to bring over some nice, crusty bread to go with it, and returned home to find the bread sitting on the kitchen counter.......Tom might have to choke some of that down.

Spoke with Jules today and found out that she will be arriving tomorrow night somewhere in the vicinity of 7:20 PM.....Blingdaddy just called and said that we are supposed to get five inches of snow, beginning on Friday night and continuing into Saturday morning.....hopefully Julie will arrive before then, and Kelly will have hightailed it to Champaign before the onslaught......aaaaah, always something to worry about.......

How is everyone coming with the Christmas decorations? I saw on FB that Brent and Kate already have their tree up in all its glory, and Aimee and Matt have their tree up, sans ornaments for the time being......we at the BlingMansion have no tree up yet, sans ornaments or otherwise......sigh......maybe this weekend......of course you all know that I DETEST dealing with Christmas trees and leave the putting up mainly to the youngun's..............(yes, I am wondering about that apostrophe again......)

So I believe I mentioned earlier that Kelly will be traveling to Champaign this weekend - Matt has a party from work to attend and asked Kelly to accompany him.......tonight Miss K will be arriving home VERY late - she has a concert to attend from one of the other orchestras in the distrct - one of the Jens is conducting - and she needs to observe to see how someone else in the district handles concerts. Kelly's own concert is next week - please forgive me but I've forgotten the exact date...dang, I just checked both of my calendars and it's not written on either one of them! I am falling behind in my calendaring......nothing is new on the face of the earth, is it?

Speaking of nothing new on the face of the earth - I lied. There IS something new - some new bacterium (or was it bacteriA? That's what I get for speed-reading) has been discovered in a lake in (where else?) California. Blingdaddy told me on the drive to the train this morning that there was going to be a news conference on the discovery of LIFE ON OTHER PLANETS, and it turns out it was the bacterium news. What a letdown. I thought that maybe there would finally be proof that aliens built the Great Pyramid!!!!! Phooey!!!!!!!

On that note, I shall leave you all to ponder...........