Only 24 shopping days to Christmas!
PatO: There was a discussion on the radio this morning about Black Friday having spilled over into the preceding and following days and even weeks. Watch out! It will soon by Cyber Monday, to be followed by Giving Tuesday. (Today is Small Business Saturday.) Then it will be When Will-It-Ever-End Wednesday, Thoroughly-Fed-up-with-It Thursday and For-Heaven's-Sake-Enough-Already Friday! etc., etc.....
Lindybird: Hope Tomasz had a super b/day and that you had a good ride home.
OG: No speech necessary to Chat here!
Raining again today. I went down to Ventura to look for a couple of things early this morning. Found them all at TJMaxx after fruitless and overwhelming brief stop at the nearby mall, which was still very quiet that early. If you know Ugg boots, the company that makes (Deckers) them has its corporate headquarters a mile from us just across the freeway - and an outlet store in Oxnard, where things are half price or less. This morning, they had Ugg ankle boots for $14.99 - all in large sizes (didn't need any; didn't buy any). I watched a couple take an entire stack and load them into their car, presumably to sell somewhere else for more money, which I though was a bit rude, but nobody asked me.
Anyway, have a good Sunday all.
Kindy concert was outdoors, wind was chilly, children a delight. They sang 11 songs sitting cross legged on a stage under trees & shadecloth. Mostly action songs, ending with 1 verse of Jingle Bells (Ahem - isn’t that now un-pc even at this time of year?) Lots of giggling when Director cue-ed wrong track on music. A few shouts “Hello Daddy” or Mummy. After, MissJ took me by the hand and led me inside to show everything. MissL escorted me to the cake & afternoon tea. The twins found their “portfolio”, an inch thick record of their time at kindy with samples of their work & photos of them. I was looking at both folders at same time with each talking non-stop about the drawings, crafts & events represented. My head was like a tennis umpire’s acknowledging both! Only 3 more kindy days. Dau was a bit weepy at the thought. Me? I would be cheering.
Dau was not happy with Sunday School. Children were told it was a time for Baby Jesus and getting presents. They could at least have stressed giving presents.
Heather: Unfortunate about the apparent overreaction by that lady. Who knows what goes on with people!
Harelady: Who went to France 25 years ago - your parents? Did they come back?
Lindybird: I was fumbling for my keys so often I bought a small leather thingy with a clip on one end that goes on the strap of my shoulder bag and a clip at the other end for keys. Then it took me weeks to remember to put the keys on it before I went toddling off.
AQ: Agree 'giving' more appropriate, especially for Sunday school. Hope your neck didn't suffer any ill effects; also that you didn't inadvertently take any photos of that protesting parent's child. :-)
Talking of books, I've just finished reading Mafia Spies (about the Kennedys, the Mafia, Fidel Castro and various bizarre plots to assassinate the latter during the 1960s). Also just finished A Single Thread, the latest from Tracy Chevalier, who wrote The Girl With the Pearl Earring. I love her books; her topics are so unusual, her research is brilliant and her characters are so well drawn.
OH and I are going to the movies this afternoon to see "The Good Liar," with Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen.
EDIT: We enjoyed the movie; lots of twists and turns. Both actors are wonderful to watch
Annette and Anyone Interested: There's a SpaceX launch to the International Space Station today--Wednesday, 4 December--from Cape Canaveral, Florida. NASA TV coverage of the launch begins at 12:30 p.m. in Indiana, so that's 9:30 a.m. in the morning in California and 5:30 p.m. in the evening in the U.K. The SpaceX webcast will begin 6 minutes later than the NASA TV broadcast. NASA TV SpaceXMission Information
OG - I know about pain thresholds, fright and so on but this was so over the top - maybe her husband was embarrassed! His absolute non reaction said a lot to me, though. Maybe her behaviour was for his benefit! Anyway, she trotted off shortly afterwards leaving me and the two shop assistants quite bemused. I was quite shaken myself, afterwards, came over all shivery and felt nauseous. Anyway it is all over, now!
And your doorbell shock -- unfortunate that you fell backwards. Hope it's not left you bruised. At least the woman made sure you were OK.