Time to ramble about the extraordinary mundane called my life.… isn’t that great how I tied that in to the site title? Aren’t you impressed? Aren’t you? You there, BE surfer… tell me am I exciting you? If I told you I was typing this naked would that work?

I wonder how many google hits I’ll get from typing this naked.

Have I mentioned before that it’s difficult to have family on the east coast? Oh wait, I guess that post was just about having a difficult family. Anyway… it is. They make bad judgment calls about what time it is appropriate for a mom to three to be up in the morning. No matter how many times I tell them to not call before 9am, they don’t seem to get the message.

It was a productive morning. I got our Christmas decorations up. The new tree is all decorated and pretty. The nativity scene is out and there are lights over each of the fireplaces and fake pine garland up the banister in the hall. I love Christmas. I love everything about it. Except the crowds. I don’t like shopping in crowds. Which is why I do a lot of shopping online.

Speaking of crowds, I did brave them yesterday to visit Target and to Best Buy. Best Buy had Mp3 players for only $30 bucks. Isn’t that awesome? Yeah well my store had 500 of them and they sold out in the first 9 minutes. The store opened at 6am. I was not there. So I did not get any MP3 player.

I was much more successful at Target. I bought lots of stocking stuffers and decorations for the outside of our house. I bought these tacky white trees that light up. They come in different sizes and I’ve had the brilliant idea to make a forest of them in our front yard. (Shaddup. It will be cute.) Maybe I’ll take a picture and you all can vote and tell me if it’s as tacky as having pink flamingos staked in the garden. I’m doing this because our roofline is so high and my husband has refused to put up lights this year. And if I pay someone, it’s really expensive. So I am doing this because it’s all at ground level and it’s CHEAP. You all know what a motivator frugality is for me.

So I think I’m going to head downstairs and make myself a cup of hot chocolate and have some turkey leftovers. Cause let me tell ya, my turkey was awesome this year. I put bacon and chives in the mashed potatoes and used some bacon in the giblet gravy. It’s amazing the magic of bacon. Bacon is now my signatuer cooking flavor.

The leftovers are calling me. I must go. But I’ll put on clothes first.

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