Here’s the deal with C’s Christmas gift. I really struggled
with it this year. Especially since he
had had my gift since October and kept telling me he only paid $38. I usually pride myself on getting him a good
gift (XM radio, Chelsea Jersey, etc.), but this year just couldn’t figure something
out until I decided to get him one of those foreign language doohickeys. Problem.
There are about 5 languages C wants to learn and if I was spending the
money on a program I wanted to make sure to get the language he really wanted
to learn. So last weekend I picked his
brain and we discussed it and collectively decided on Spanish because 1) I will
re-learn it with him as well 2) Monkey will also be learning 3) this will be
more practical. The other strong contended was French but I just don’t do
French.
So we dined and got diapers for the Monkey and a gingerbread
house (which is still in the box) and headed to Barnes and Noble to pick up C’s
gift. And since C was getting his big gift we decided to do our Christmas that
evening.
I arrived home to a new t.v. for our bedroom (thanks Elf
Mark!). Some people don’t like t.v.s in
their bedroom. Here’s why I do: 1) when
C’s working late or gone for the night, I keep the t.v. on for the background
noise (and set it to sleep mode) 2) when you have babies (and some day we hope
to have another one) a t.v. is great to make sure you stay awake while feeding
your newborn 3) sports, sports, sports and finally 4) movies! In this case, C
really wanted to give me my gift before Christmas so we could watch a Christmas
movie in bed.
So we put the Monkey to bed and got to work on hooking up
the new t.v. It was really pretty until
we turned it on and the screen was cracked.
(frown) C did lots and lots of research when picking out this model and
the only bad reviews were “the screen arrived cracked so I had to get another
one.” C thought that’d never happen to
us. Um. Yeah.
So we boxed the t.v. back up with the intention of taking it
back to the Walmart on Saturday morning.
Then we watched a Christmas movie (Elf) in the living room.
Saturday morning we woke up to a lovely Christmas downpour.
While getting ready, C turned on his office t.v. on (it’s a scientific fact
that he cannot get dressed without watching MSNBC, particularly Morning Joe)
only to hear a popping noise followed by no image. Note – this t.v. was also from the Walmart. We loaded up the Monkey (who, let’s be honest,
was a bit cranky) and went to the Walmart to return the t.v. The Walmart was
all out of t.v.s our size and since 1) C has crossed Walmart off his list of
stores to purchase electronics from and 2) without t.v.s we couldn’t
immediately get a new one in order to be able to watch a Christmas movie in bed
before Christmas – we went to Best Buy where we found a t.v (and DVD player and
HDMI cord).
When we got home, Santa/Grandpa/Ho-Ho was waiting for
us.
Then we set up the t.v. and ordered Jimmy Johns delivery
because Mark is their newest delivery boy.
But it turns out he was already out on a delivery and they wouldn’t let
us wait until he was back and we explained that he was our brother but that
didn’t help any because corporate wouldn’t care about the relationship and I
didn’t want to tip someone else when I could be tipping Mark so… I went to pick
it up.
Then we ate lunch in bed while watching Kentucky play someone (can we talk about how bad Kentucky is this year?!) who wasn’t good but really held their own.
And then the afternoon and evening came and I have no idea
what we did. Except I do remember finishing up my Christmas shopping, making
cheesy chicken pot pie, and watching the Buckeyes mount a monumental comeback
again Notre Dame. Holler!
Oh yes, and we watched a Christmas movie (Love Actually) in
bed.
Sunday morning we went to church (where Monkey made her
presence known) and out to lunch at Chipotle with my dad and Mark (something we
don’t get to do too often on Sundays as we are pushing it by missing Monkey’s
morning nap).
Once Monkey finally did get to take her nap we cleaned the
kitchen, I broke a wine glass into a million and one pieces (had no idea a
glass could break into so make pieces), made two types of cookies (chocolate
chip and rolo), and put up Christmas lights outside (because there’s no time
like the present and three days before Christmas – but really we haven’t had a
decent day in the last month when we’ve been home to do so).
Before Monkey went to bed last night we watched the first
half of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and every time Santa came on, Monkey let
us know by saying “ho-ho”.
Then Santa got some wrapping done and went to bed.
And I was awoken by C’s light snoring at 12:45 a.m. after having
dreamt he was having an affair with a woman named Hun Sue June. I debated
waking him up to make sure it wasn’t true but worried that in his grogginess he
wouldn’t know what I was talking about and just say “yes” to whatever I asked.
So that’s how I started my week…
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