Day 341 - vacation starts,

 Today is the 5th day of the 49th week, the 7th day of the 12th month, the 341st day of this babbling experiment, and:

  • International Civil Aviation Day
  • Letter Writing Day
  • National Cotton Candy Day
  • National Fire Safety Council Day
  • National Illinois Day
  • National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
  • National Slime Day
  • the start of Hanukkah [or Chanukah] this evening after sundown
  • and Voyager 1 is 22h 33m 01s of light travel time from Earth

Quote of the day:
"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."
~  Mark Twain

It is an odd feeling when your work week ends on a Wednesday, because you keep trying to do Friday things when you get home.  And altho I didn't set my alarm, I woke up right around the same time as usual.  Oddly, when I tried to skip two alarms in a row with the Echo, she cancelled my future Thursday and Friday alarms, so I have to set those back up when I get home.

Next week I will be traveling, so I have lots of preparations to make this week!  Today and tomorrow, I am sorting out the presents [for five adults and two kids], making sure that I have planned out correctly, and wrapping.  I always try to have the same exact number of "opens" [as my kids called it when they were very young] for each person, so sometimes the wrapping gets inventive.  I used to assign each person their own wrapping paper to make the gifts easy to distinguish, but since I cheat these days and use gift bags [yes, sometimes from Amazon], I now put them in big bags for each person in addition to having gift tags.  

We'll have to see if that puts me in the mood to put up my tree and other decorations as I have in world.  Sometimes this fun activity has done that in past years




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