I found some new underwear today:

“A Christmas Story” boxer shorts

I went to Target in Bellingham today for no particular reason and ended up coming home with those lovely undergarments. Target actually has the coolest holiday merchandise of any store I’ve shopped at this season. Previously I had been there and almost bought a Ralphie t-shirt.

And since this year I have a miniature Christmas tree adorning my kitchen table I also bought these:

“Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” Ornaments

When I bought my tree I also picked up a pack of generic ornaments, but I didn’t realize you must purchase hooks seperately. What’s with that? Anyway, these are way cooler. Actually they are bells, not strictly ornaments. But they hang on my tree so I don’t think there will be much ringing happening.

“Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” ornaments on my little tree

Now that’s not the best picture of my tree. I still have more ornaments to hang, and it also needs some garland. I guess I also need something for the top of it still too.

My shopping for gifts is mostly complete thankfully. I just need to find a couple more appropriate gifts for certain people and I’ll really be done.

So I’ve been sick since Thurday afternoon. Mostly a sore throat, fever, and headache. I had a CT scan Thursday morning, so I don’t know if I’m having a reaction to the IV contrast dye they pumped in me, or if I caught some more sinister type virus. All I know is that I was out of it on Friday, a little better Saturday, and a little better today, but I’ve still been better. I had started to work on this post back on Thursday, but didn’t get around to finishing it until now.

Wednesday I went to the US to do some shopping. I wanted to get a head start on looking for Christmas stuff. There was a ton of cool stuff that I saw at Target, and yes, I bought some. Once we are closer/in December and I have this stuff put up I’ll take some pictures and put them up here.

One of my goals was to find a box of Christmas Crunch cereal, in this we were unsuccessful. I haven’t found a box in years…

But still, I was successful in filling my need for Hickory Farms products:

That’s right, I came home with two Hickory Farms gift boxes, complete with included spreaders!

I was going to start eating one of the boxes right away (or at least the food products in the box), but as I said, I got sick instead (yes, before eating any). As you can see, the box I chose to open first included well-seasoned crackers, Italian head & cheese spread, Sweet-hot mustard, beef summer sausage, 4 strawberry candies, and an official Hickory Farms chesse spreader. I’ve been resisting the tempation to eat all of that because I want to wait until I feel better to fully appreciate everything.

Now I said I wouldn’t post the christmas stuff we got until closer to or in December, but there’s a couple of things I can’t wait to share:

At Target and Walmart they had these packages of baked goods mixes, packed in christmas themed aprons and oven mitts. We decided on bringing home the Sugar Cookie mix inside the winter Bear oven mitt from Target, and the Cinnamon Sugar Cookie mix inside the christmas tree apron from Walmart. The price? $5 each. And it’s pretty hard to screw up sugar cookies, especially in just mix form.