The Circle of Life: Christmas Shopping and "My Eyes! My Eyes!"

Today, March 6, 2009, I can announce that I have just ordered via internet my very last Christmas present!!!! Aren't you impressed? Before you start throwing eggs at your computer, I do need to confess that I just ordered my last present for Christmas 2008. Feel better, don't ya? Let me explain. I did about 95% of my Christmas shopping last year online. One thing I ordered for Matt was a remote-control tent light. The closer it got to Christmas, I realized that one present was still unaccounted for. On Christmas morning I gave Matt a note saying that his tent light was coming soon. It never came. Do you think I thought about it again until recently? Nope. Sweet Matt would never remind me. Thank goodness it did come to mind. So, this afternoon I finally completed my shopping for Christmas 2008. What a relief.

I'm beginning to think my eyesight is going, going, gone. I had an appointment yesterday with my Dr. Handy Andy (yes, I have another sinus infection, but that's another sob story). I have never parked in the spot directly in front of the door. When I parked, I read the sign on the door. I read, "MON THUR FRI 8:30 - 1:00 2:00 - 5:00". I thought to my stupid self, "Good grief, I know they're opened on Tues & Wed. - not just Mon, Thur, & Fri. And I know they have the same hours all five days of the week. Is there a mistake on that sign?" Of course, my cheeks were red from embarrassment when I got right up to the door and realized that the "Thur" I read in my mind was actually "Thru" or through. Am I dyslexic? I pride myself in finding typographical errors. I'm good at it. Goes back to my secretarial days. I did find two typo mistakes on two signs yesterday. However, Dr. Handy Andy's front door sign was not one of them.

Yesterday and today I helped with Brie while Mark was busy and Andrea was sleeping. Brie is at such a cute stage right now. She's sitting up and is so happy. She'll soon be crawling, I'll bet. Here are some pictures of Brie.