Busy, busy, busy

The Husband is officially on vacation until Jan. 2 - and his cardiologist is on vacation all next week so hopefully we won't be summoned to the hospital til after New Year's.

I ran out to Michael's this afternoon to return a few things. I shopped around with a 40% coupon and a $10 gift card in my wallet and didn't spend a thing. I even gave my coupon away. Then I got to my car. No keys. After a few minutes of panic and a call to The Husband I spotted them in the car. I have OnStar but Hubs came down to open the doors since he was coming that way anyhow. I took him to lunch and spent the $ I had gotten back from the returns.

While I was waiting I wandered into Barnes & Noble, a place I seldom go because Amazon and Half.com are so much cheaper. I need to do that more often because I sat in the magazine section and read all of their papercrafts magazines (they have at least 30 now) so now I don't need to buy them. And while I didn't see MAKE magazine, they did have Make's new sister publication, CRAFT. At $15 an issue I'm not likely to subscribe, but it's definitely fun to read (and I'll be at B&N when the next issue comes out). One of the interesting articles (that isn't on the website) was about an artist named David Cole who knitted a Ginormous American Flag using two excavators holding light poles. His yarn was 18" wide lengths of felt. I have no plans to take up knitting on that scale at any time soon.

Older daughter and I finished up her friend's gifts this afternoon - we made 50 'pots' of lip balm in various flavors, and we're getting most of our family Christmas project painted tonight. Tomorrow I'm expecting the last Amazon.com shipment and I have some ornaments to finish up. I might actually have most everything done before 2007! It'll be really nice to be able to enjoy the church services on Christmas Eve. The church is having a Love Feast at all the evening services and The Boy is excited about getting to have a snack in church.