Weekend Update

After being snowed in on Friday we were very pleased to find our road had been plowed when we got up on Saturday. YAY! And the main roads weren't that bad. It was nice and sunny, which helped to melt some of the snow.

Melinda and I had plans to go to lunch and do some Christmas shopping, so it was a very good thing that the roads were cleared. We left about 11:00 to go to lunch at our favorite Chinese restaurant in town, but swung by the post office first to get stamps for our Christmas cars, which we still haven't mailed out. Yikes! After that we went to lunch, which was very good as always. I had my usual: Cashew chicken with no vegetables and white rice. YUM! Melinda had the buffet.

After that we went shopping at the one store that is closing and found a few deals. Then we decided to go to Wal-mart and the grocery store. BIG MISTAKE!!! It seemed EVERYONE in town was out shopping. Traffic was all backed up everywhere. It was impossible to get anywhere. The lines in the stores were awful. We found what we wanted at Wal-mart pretty quickly then went to the grocery store. That place was a complete zoo!!! It took almost 30 minutes to check out. There were people with 2 and 3 carts full of stuff! The lines were all horrendous long. It was crazy. I've never seen it that bad. After that we decided to head home because it was getting late.

After dinner we decided to wrap presents. Melinda made a joke about the one scene in National Lampoon's vacation where the one old lady wraps up stuff she finds around her house so I grabbed her "Reaper: Season 1" DVD set that was sitting next to me and jokingly wrapped it and put it under the tree. This set off a hilarious chain of events that left us both with our sides hurting from laughing so much. Melinda found a bunch of movies she bought this year and wrapped them for herself. I then grabbed a bunch of the books I bought recently, but haven't read and wrapped those. From there it turned into finding things we didn't want to wrap for other people. For the past few Christmases Pat has done that. We found a few of the movies he gave us last year and are going those to our brother! Just passing them on. So Melinda got out a bunch of old VHS tapes that she has the DVDs of and we wrapped those to give to people. We were up to almost 2:00 am wrapping presents. It was tons of fun!

This morning we got up early and made muffins! YUM! After that we went through all the DVDs and VHSs to find movies we no longer wanted. We ended up purging a bunch of movies that we never watch. So our family and friends are going to be getting lots of random movies! We used the ugliest paper we could find to wrap them.

The best part of our wrapping extravaganza are the tags! It got boring writing our names or Santa on the tags. So we started writing down the names of the people on the music channel we were listening to as we were wrapping. So we have gifts under our tree from Paul Anka, Bing Crosby, and the Funky Bunch. LOL On some of the other tags we put the names of the characters in the movies along with quotes. There is one gift from the Joker who asks "why so serious?" I am so looking forward to Christmas now!

Hopefully tomorrow morning we can both get out of the driveway to go to work. There were 30-40 MPH winds all day today, which created huge drifts in the driveway. We shoveled a path to get out, so hopefully it won't have blown back across.

That's all for now. I have more scrapbook layouts to post, but will try to get those posted in the next few days.

Later!
Melissa