There’s a store in town that I keep meaning to go to, but I never seem to have any money to spend there when I think about it. It’s a tobacco outlet, but I don’t smoke and I’m not looking to buy anyone any Garcia Vega cigars. I want to buy some candles.
Yes, that’s right, candles. Tobacco and candles are a rather odd combination for a store to sell, but that’s what they specialize in. And they’ve got some really awesome candles in dozens of heavenly scents and every size you can imagine. Unlike those cheap discount store candles, they burn very evenly and throw out plenty of scent until they’re gone. They’re not cheap, but they’re worth every penny they cost.
I need to get some pillar candles for this set of large vintage candleholders my mom gave me. I’ve had them for a while, and I had some cheapo candles in them, but after burning them a few times they looked horrid. So they just sat there collecting dust, and removing dust from crappy candles is next to impossible. I ended up throwing those out, and my pretty candleholders look so lonely sitting there empty.
The next time I have some cash to spare, I’m going in and picking up a couple of nice scented pillars. And maybe a few votives while I’m at it. I firmly believe that you can never have too many candles.
Pumpkin made a list of stuff she’d like to have for her birthday. It was a loooooong list, and it included several expensive items. She got two of them, a microscope and a telescope, because I found a ridiculously awesome deal on them. But now all I’ve been hearing about is how much she’d like to have one of the other expensive items on that list for Christmas: an iPod Touch.
She has a PSP, and it does just about everything an iPod Touch can do, except it doesn’t have a touch screen. I know you can’t put apps on it, but I don’t think she really gives a flip about anything but the game apps. And games are what a PSP does best.
I’ve explained this to her, but she just thinks the whole touch screen thing is so cool. So I’m trying to come up with a less expensive compromise. I haven’t really found a viable alternative to an iPod Touch, but I’ve run across some killer deals on tablet PCs. Hmm…
I’m thinking about getting her one. She’s mentioned in passing that she’d like to have an iPad, and an Android tablet is very similar as far as what it can do, but much less expensive. The biggest difference between a tablet and an iPod as I understand it (other than the OS) is that the tablet is larger. And she’d probably like having a larger screen.
If anybody knows more about this stuff than I do (yes, I’m hopelessly behind the times on these technological wonders), please fill me in!
I’ve been thinking a lot about Christmas shopping lately. I’m not sure why it’s on my mind this early. Maybe because I’m afraid that I won’t have any money to buy gifts. If I can get enough work done maybe that won’t be a problem. But I’m working on contingency plans just in case.
I’ve been busting my butt to accumulate as many Amazon gift certificates as I can. And I’ve been keeping my eyes peeled for Gap or Old Navy or Abercrombie or Urban Outfitters coupons in hopes of getting some killer deals on clothes for Pumpkin and maybe Hubby. I also have some credit available if worse comes to worst, but I’m hoping I won’t have to use it much or at all.
Am I the only goofball who’s thinking this far ahead? Let me know in the comments!
The past month has really, really sucked. I spent the majority of it laying around feeling like crap. It was like my digestive system just totally turned against me, leaving me in terrible pain and not functioning properly. I would go into more detail, but you probably wouldn’t want to read it so I’ll just leave it at that.
I did go to the doctor, but I had to see the new NP, and she isn’t worth a hoot. I tried to give her a chance, I really did, but she just doesn’t listen. I told her about some other strange symptoms that I was having, and she just looked rather perplexed and gave me something to help with the stomach problems. It helped a little, but not that much. Luckily it resolved somewhat on its own a week or so after I finished the medication. But I’m still not at all back to normal, and I think there’s something underlying that’s causing it all.
Anyway, because I was feeling so horribly, I didn’t get much work done all month. Once I started feeling better physically, the depression that always sets in when I can’t get any work done kept me from getting much work done for a couple more weeks. Today is the first day I’ve been fairly motivated and clearheaded, and wouldn’t you know it, Pumpkin got out of school early and is having a three day weekend.
I feel like a car that’s been sitting on the side of the road, waiting for the breakdown service people to get there. And once I get towed and repaired, something else tears up right after I leave the shop. Lather, rinse, repeat.
I’m trying to keep up hope that things will get better. But when they’ve been like this to some degree for the past few years, it gets rather difficult.
