coexistapart's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- only cash from here on out It's just so bizarre. I have not updated in the longest time. And when I go back and briefly review my entries of the past month, they depress me so because everything is just ridiculously mundane. Paris was divine. London was so-so, but of course the point was to see Kimberley. I arrived in Denver Wednesday night; we've been here the past couple of days celebrating American Thanksgiving. Thursday didn't feel like much of a holiday, but yesterday and today were quite nice. Yesterday Big's mother was not feeling so well (she is 72 and not quite in the greatest health the past year or so, since she had knee replacement surgery and she's a diabetic who loves Oreos) so we opted to go to the malls to experience Black Friday after all. The lines were quite long at more mainstream stores like Target, but when we went to Flatirons people were still heeding the bad economy and not really buying. I got a nice sweater at J. Crew and, in an attempt to complete all of my (remaining) Christmas shopping in one go, I bought Big a 40" HD flat-screen TV for Christmas. It was under $1000 and 30% of Circuit City going out of business, so everyone's happy; it's not like it's not at least partly self-serving. Today we mostly stayed around the house to spend time with my MIL. I know people are confused when I call her that, but she gives me jewelery that she no longer wears and has me take her to the bank or, like Thursday, I brought her home from dinner at her grandchildren's house because the kids were just so loud and out of control. By myself, while Big stayed at dinner. Today I logged onto the internet and set up her AmexEx account online so she could order gift cards with her points for everyone for Christmas, while Big wrapped Christmas presents that we're leaving here and I also helped her make ribs. It's been one of those relaxing and restful indulgent days; if I'd had my coffee maker here I'd have had several cups just to stay awake. There are many things in my life that I AM grateful for, it's just hard right now to focus exclusively on those things amidst everything else in my life that is swirling around, in confusion. Deb & Jim will be here shortly as we are taking them to the Avs game. They are very, very excited; they don't get out too often--though tickets really were NOT in any way prohibitive. ($30/pp) Driving home tomorrow, eBay things to ship and personal business to take care of on Monday. I will also need to contact Princeton Prof and my other reference that I have not heard from in a while, as well pretending that I still care by completing my Personal Statement once and for all and figuring out a way to order some other Christmas gifts online; I'm fairly irritated--simply out of inconvenience--that ordering US items online now carries a 20% surcharge given that the CAD dollar is back down from parity. 3:29 p.m. - 2008-11-29 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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