One the things I hate about being at my parent's house is that they still watch tv news, but at least they do not watch the 24 hour news channels when I am there.

lazy morning. I think my body is caught up on sleep, I'm waking up on my own after about 8 hours now.

Today I am packing the sewing closet and non-liquid, non-essentials from the bathroom. Possibly doing so while watching documentaries.

The 24 hour news stations are absurd with the repetitiveness, but still better anytime than local news. Local news is all if it bleeds it leads awfulness. Hard to say whether local is better or worse than Fox.

My husband's aunt and uncle have a big Xmas Eve get together and she had MSNBC on in the kitchen the whole time just to fuck with the Trumpies in the family (of which there aren't many). I'm usually against TVs being on unless you are specifically watching a show but it was pretty glorious.

Trip home yesterday was pretty easy. Our flight was overbooked and they ended up offering a $600 voucher to switch to a slightly later flight so I took it and ended up getting a fair amount of work done while I waited. A Christmas travel miracle!

That is excellent, lisah! I never get those offers unless I'm desperate to get where I'm going.

I've finally watched some of the Ken Burns country music documentary, and there are so many good stories in there, I think I'd rather watch a whole hour or two about Merle Haggard, or Loretta Lynn, or Charlie Pride, etc etc, rather than this big sweep. It's plenty interesting, though.

woohoo travel voucher!! last year was my magic year for miles and vouchers. I think I took 4 trips for less than $800 total in airline tickets.

I do not have to work this weekend and I am so so glad. I got pulled into women's shoes and finally after some pushing they were able to pull more people and I left.

I couldn't pull shoes for anyone so the lines were backing up. I have been getting so hot lately I'm paranoid about getting sick from the heat again.

They are down to 3 full time people in the dept. 2 people walked out, one got fired, another quit but worked their 2 weeks

The biggest problem is customers. They are so sanding and unrealistic. Like the ones who hand you 6 pairs of shoes and want this in 2 sizes to try and them get mad because you can't carry a dozen boxes

Spent the last two hours helping out with preticketing in the warehouse. Kind of a nice change, but I wasn't dressed for it.

Got the 3 moving estimates. Each one increased the estimate of weight and thus value, so each quote was larger. $4130 to $5520. Lowest valuation of goods was for $30700 which would probably be enough to furnish my place, right?

It is up to my parents, but I think we should just take the lowest bid. It was actually my first choice on reviews.

After work I went directly over to Inman Oasis (walking distance from work), the hot tub place, and took a shower and long soak in the community tub and now I'm so very very limp, and home.

I'd still like to be able to take a hot shower in my own little place, but this was a nice mini-vacay.

That's nice that it is convenient to go take a soak at least. Sorry for the expense and inconvenience of having to deal with it all.

I'm going to be an aunt again! Like next fall, but still excited. My SIL is going to be 44 next week and has tried for so many years to have a 2nd child. Her son is 6 now and it took many many years for her to get pregnant the first time. So she is so thrilled, and so sick, but she doesn't even care. She had to be induced the first time around because of blood pressure issues so we need to find a good way to keep that under control this time. Whee! So my great nephew and his wife are preggers and now my SIL. Next we hope is my DIL. Then lots of baby cousins!