WHOA

Where does the time go? Totally ashamed of myself that my last post is December 2nd and today is already the 13th, no 14th, no 15, NO 16th!! ARGH. Okay, so the tree is up, the outside lights make our new place Christmas-beautiful and I guess you'd say 95% of the shopping is complete. The reason I say 95% because..well.. you never seem done. For some reason there is always something that makes you go out and brave the crowds again. Not to mention that Kyle's birthday is on Wednesday the 20th which brings a whole new set of plans and problems.

Nice experience at Publix today (the grocery store) where I bought a bag of Idaho potatoes that were on sale - just grabbed a bag and threw it into the cart. I had walked away for a minute while they were scanning and bagging and the bag-boy comes up to me with the bag of potatoes in a grocery bag and says "smell this". Well, after all these years I know better! I could have kicked myself! I know better than when someone says "smell this" YOU DON'T. UGH I still can't get that smell of rotten potatoes out of my mind. He, on the other hand, had a pretty hardy laugh when I said "I even know better than to smell something that someone says smell this" (not to mention the sour look on his face).

One thing that surprises me here in Jax is how nice most of the people are. Everywhere else I have lived this time of year shopping brings out the nasty in people. You know them - the grumby people that are sighing and rolling their eyes and have nasty-icky all of their faces..
This morning I encountered the nicest, most pleasant people ever. They smiled, they apologized for being in the way, they said "excuse me", it was nice and quite the surprise. I remember when we lived in Vegas and it was the polar opposite this time of year. Jax people are quite nice I must say.

Okay, off to wrap. Kyle is at the skatepark so gotta grab the opportunity when I can! Cheers all and happy shopping and stuff...