I didn't sleep. Woke up early and checked out the snow. Not much of it but it's mostly ice the huge tall as trees hedges were bent over nearmy in half. One on my car. I got the space behind my car shoveled and the snow knocked off the hedge on to my car.

Will might be coming over but I don't know also nit sure I can get his spot shoveled out.

I need to find someone who can come over in the mornings and shovel me out. Not sure how to do find someone. I should have down some shoveling while it was snowing last night.

Sorry to hear about the insomnia, sleepless people.

Askye, try calling around to people who do snow plowing - in local newspapers or on bulletin boards in grocery and hardware stores. Either they might offer the service of limited shoveling or know someone who does.

I'll check or maybe front porch forum which I subscribe to and then forget to read. Although my town doesn't rate it's own For, it's to small.

Discovered I have new neighbors. They only moved in a month ago but I've been distracted. Gone are the slightly creepy family that would shoot airguns. In us a nice lady with some kids. I helped her shovel and her daughter helped me. She was was a little surprised that she had to shovel her drive. I guess they didn't make it clear park management plows the street but that's it.

And Will is coming over and taking me to therapy and the lunch. Or maybe the other way around. And there was much rejoicing because I haven't seen him enough lately.

We're doing a white elephant gift exchange at one of my work locations. I think I shall make a selection of duct tape crafts to give.

Andi - we have a white elephant exchange tomorrow. I am putting a Hershey bar in a frame with "In Case of Emergency Break Glass". Just need to print out the words and get everything centered in the frame and I'm done.

Finished the scantrons.

I've never worked anywhere that had any kind of gift exchange like that. We do have a "staff appreciation week" when all the faculty and instructors are supposed to get little gifts for the administrative staff, but I always forget. (Plus, while I do appreciate the staff, I don't particularly appreciate getting an email in the middle of midterms informing me that I'm supposed to give a gift on some particular day to someone I barely know. Picking out presents for people I do know is stressful enough!)

That's adorable, Suzi. I am totally stealing that idea!

Sent off some holiday cards.

Hi Laura. Thanks so much. I thought it over, and just buying a membership and then getting a refund once I have my glasses seems the best way to go. The gift card trick would have made sense with someone local to do it, but by mail just adds to the time I spend not being able to read for more than five minutes a time.

Oh and Hillary, I have fairly strong cylinders to correct my astigmatism. And I'm still getting two pair of glasses for $63 at Costco with polycarbonate. High index would be higher but nothing like $400. You might call Cosctco to see what it would cost to get your glasses there. For people with strong corrections, it is less expensive than on-line and also can handle prescriptions most on-line places can't . I don't know about quality, but it seems like every place has complaints and overall I see more good ratings for Costco optical than bad ones. (BTW - with no discounts my glasses would cost $44 each - could always get them at that price. Right now Cosco offers $25 off on the second pair which is why it is $63 for 2 pair. I'll bet $25 off second pair is not the best deal they'll offer this year, so it might be worth the phonecall to find out if Costco works for you, while still delaying actual purchase until your next regular eye exam. Again I don't know what the limits are on which prescriptions Costco can fill, but even if there are no Costcos near you, it would not hurt to make a phone call to find out if you can take a zero off your glasses price. Thanks again to everyone who suggested Costco. Simple googling is pretty tough for me right now, so I kind of have to rely on advice for this kind of thing. I'm glad I learned to touch type before computer came around, - this is not too bad for literally typing with my eyes clsoed and then doing a quick check afterwords.