AND I've showered! This is way more than I usually do by 11am on a Sunday.

Woke up early, so I made breakfast and lemon curd. Nom. Will try to save it for Christmas Day or maybe freeze for later...

I'm in a really grumpy mood. Part of it is I have a UTI not a new one I don't think the old on went away because I forgot to finish taking the medicine. But I have antibiotics from the last time that happened so I'm going to try and do a 10 day course and hopefully that helps. I'm also in a grumpy mood because I want to get stocking stuffers and put stockings out but I don't really want to shop anyway where. Also Scrappy the cat is attacking Penny and Duchess is getting in on the act occasionally. So now we are back to Penny being bullied and I'm not sure how to fix this.

Also my shift starts at 3:15 but I am going to be leaving here around 12:30 so I can stop by the store for a frozen dinner for dinner and so I will have enough time to drive around the parking lot looking for a place to park. Yesterday someone who worked in the afternoon said it took them 45 minutes to find a parking place.

Oh, foo -- I tried RotoRooter, and they don't DO furnaces.

I need to look back in my notes because I have to find the decent plumbers who came here last year.

My mother apparently uses Winters, FWIW. [link]

Ugh, Askye.

I am at work. I was at work yesterday, and I'll be at work tomorrow. I don't even work retail! Bah Humbug!

I am going to the festival of lights at the zoo tonight with small (and large) children though.

I just finished grocery shopping with Aidan and Maria. We drive her crazy because she is so efficient and also hate shopping. I kind of get why people say I am patient because I am OK with things like finding parking and making a bunch of trips and standing in line and choosing things, and Maria hates all of that! On the other hand she is a teacher, and although I am patient with people the first few times I show them things, if they don't get it, I get so impatient. Maybe I wouldn't with kids, but adults I am training I feel like they are being willfully obstinate about just learning how to do the thing.

She got so impatient with me trying to teach Aidan how to put carts together (one was actually broken) that she grabbed it out of our hands and just put the two carts back separately!

On the other hand, when we vacation, she wants to play everything by ear and just wander, and I want a plan and I want to make sure I see the museum or zoo or whatever in the suggested order and use a map to go to things without a lot of wandering because we might miss something.

People are so different!

Jesse, I made contact with Winters so that's in motion. No doubt expensive motion, but that's Owning A House for you -- you never have to say "what will I do with all this lovely money!?"

Happy holidays, lovely people!

I'm skipping a lot in request of some ~ma. Big day tomorrow - mom is having a minor operation (but she's still an older woman with some health issues), and I'm speaking with someone that I want as a thesis advisor. I'd really like all to go well. Also, I'm operating on very little sleep, so no idea how the grammar of this post will look like eventually.

And thank you.

ltc is making her Christmas cards today. They are entirely filled with ghosts and monsters.