Robin's Nest

Wow! This month has flown by.  It is time to do end of the month chores at work and it seems we just barely did the beginning of the month chores.  The holidays are in full swing and Christmas will be upon us in no time.  We currently have 41 residents at my work and I am not sure what to get them.  I like it to be individual but then sometimes getting everyone the same thing works out to be less costly. Last year I made everyone a rice sock heating pad.  Now I will probably make the same thing for the new residents this year but the old ones need something too...  I have had various ideas throughout the year but nothing that seems to shout out to me.  There are some who the choice is easy and others are just like buying for family...you know "what in the world do I get them". It is the first Sunday of Advent and I think of all things I am thankful for, grandkids and birthdays! Being able to live in a land where we can do or be anything. It...

Happy Black Friday! Have you ever been out on Black Friday? Fighting the crowds, being run over by shoppers who think these deals will never happen again? I went once about ten years ago.  That experience was less than fun.. I could hardly move the cart through the aisles, I did get the item I went after but I felt like a minnow in a shark tank!  In retrospect it wasn't even that great of a deal. Since that very day I just decided it wasn't something I would rush to do again.  I have purchased a few "black" Friday deals since but a) not at the crack of dawn, b) not the day of Thanksgiving and c) only because I was in the store for something else and happen to run across a "leftover" you know one that someone missed... This year I had mulled over many ideas of what to give the adult children and the grands, but haven't really settled on anything specific.  The adult kids have everything they could possibly want or need and the so too for the grandkids...

Today has been  the second of two days off in the last 20+ days from my day job.  It is the first day that I did not physically go to my place of employment and do something for one resident or another. As I sit at the table and decide what to do with this valuable time I have my mind goes blank...probably from the overwhelming amount of things I am behind on! The list of what needs to be done is so long, just to sit and write it out would take both of my days off without interruptions...  The odds of that happening are slim to none! So today I went to King Soopers this morning to get part of our bi weekly grocery haul and spent 29.81 not too bad for being able to get most of our holiday and winter shelf stable things. That total included a 14 pound turkey, 4 pints of fresh raspberries, 5 two liter Vernors ginger ale, 1 two liter orange soda, 1 two liter 7up, 4 two liter A&W Root beers and 1 two liter Squirt and 3 quarts of fresh buttermilk and last b...