I am opting out of the department White Elephant exchange because gift giving is stress I don't need at the moment.

Y'all, I am so excited to have two days with no work, no rehearsals, no time commitments except to myself. Now curling up in bed with Popeye's and a bottle of wine and not leaving until the sun is up tomorrow!

I'm regifting something for the work White Elephant exchange that I got at a different White Elephant exchange last year. [sings] It's the circle of liiiiiife! [/sings]

Did my annual buy-every-bath-bomb-at-LUSH for the SIL. My car smells like a Lush now. Found her some fancy sheets, too. As I drove by the Senator theater, waved to the stormtrooper hanging out front.

I think I'll go to a SW showing in a couple of hours. Looks like I can get a good seat. Mac has no interest in SW which I view as a parenting fail.

Timelies all!

So I'm taking Mr. S out of his car seat, when I notice his shoes are off.(not unusual for him) I am only able to find one shoe. I look around, but only one shoe. Gary goes out to have a look around, and lets me know the side mirror on the passenger side of my car is broken.(The mirror itself is intact, but the casing is gone.) Joy.

I will bring the car into the dealer Monday morning.

Also, we are not going to get to see The Last Jedi this weekend, as Gary's mom is out of town this weekend. Maybe New Year's Day we'll see it.

Sheryl, what a pain those side mirrors are. Did you ever find the shoe?

I'm always perplexed when I see solitary shoes of all sizes by the side of the road. Something is stealing our shoes.

It's the single child-sized mittens in the grocery store parking lots that I feel sad about, because kid probably dropped it as he was getting bundled into the car and mom won't notice till they get home and she demands to know what happened to the other one.

Reykjavík had a "singles bar" of found mittens pinned up together. Probably many, but I just saw the one. A nice idea, a little hope that the kittens might find them, as it were. I hope the shoe has turned up, Sheryl. Sucks about the mirror.

I am now thinking Last Jedi on Tuesday because I am cheap and the movie theatre is near my bus stop. Read Bloodline and loved it - is there more canon or semi-canon in between RotJ and TFA? A lot apparently happens.

The shoe has not turned up. It probably fell off as I was putting him in the car. We stopped by the synagogue(where the nursery school/daycare is) this afternoon, but there wasn't anyone around. We'll try on Monday to see if anyone turned it in.

One of the guards not here last winter hugged me when I brought cookies to their inservice. And the new director stopped me to ask for the oatmeal cookie recipe for the cookies I took in earlier.

I'm continuing to build my rep.