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Christmas shopping

Before we begin, may I say I am very glad to be off for Christmas.

I decided on Thursday that I'd try to get the hubby his gift. He actually asked for something - that's pretty significant, right there - so I was taking that request and running with it.

The kiddos and I piled into "mommy's blue ride" and headed to breakfast (IHOP), then to Hastings (a local book/CD store that also sells and rents DVDs). I didn't expect to find his gift there - he asked for some additional memory for his computer - but he did ask me to pick up something for the person he drew for the office gift exchange, so I looked around there (with kiddos in cart) and talked back and forth on the cell phone with him until we figured out what he wanted to get him.

After that, off to Target. Didn't reeeeally expect to find memory there, but I thought I'd try, anyhow. I had a couple of other things to pick up, so it wasn't a wasted trip.

From there, his office. I called Office Depot from there and found out that I needed a whole lot more info about the computer than the last time we bought memory for one - which was quite a while ago (one of the Win 95 comps, likely). All I remembered doing back then was getting the amount I wanted, not needing to know much of anything else. So I drove home, ran in, scribbled down computer info, and then called the store back from the car.

After a few minutes, I decided I'd just go ahead and start driving there (since if they didn't have it, I was going to try a small local computer store). I was almost to Office Depot by the time I got off the phone with them (they finally put someone on the phone who knew exactly what to ask me so that I knew what THEY needed to know - that we had SD RAM). At that point, the man I was talking to said he thought they had what I needed.

Soooo, into Office Depot. After finding someone to help, I found the memory, and he had concerns whether or not the memory they carried would be backwards-compatible with the hubby's comp's speed. After looking up his computer model, we discovered that indeed, they did not have the type he needed. This Office Depot Guy was quite helpful though - he wrote down exactly which type we would need, and advised we take a peek inside the computer first to know its configuration (it would affect how much we might buy, depending on how the memory already there was split up, or if it was all on one card, etc.). He also told us what the max was that the computer could take.

So, after all that, I had no memory (hee!), and the kiddos and I had all about reached our limit. I needed to get home for Patrick's speech therapy, and was in no mood to try to cook, so I went through the McDonald's drive-through while calling the hubby to tell him what the guy told me about the memory (so that he'd know what he might be looking at). Had to tell him to wait a moment while I ordered, and when he heard me order Happy Meals...

"Are you feeding my children McDonalds?"

Yeppers. And I must say, the chicken nuggets look far more appetizing now than they did back when they first came out. Like real chicken breast pieces, not processed chicken parts.

At any rate, by the time we got home and ate, the speech therapist was due to be there - or so I thought until I checked the calendar she gave me, and realized that I still had old default times on my computer. She wasn't due to see Patrick again until after Christmas.

So the kiddos played a little bit, but started showing their exhaustion, thus prompting me to declare naptime for all three of us.

At least I did find something at one of the above locations for the hubby (no, not at McDonalds), so our decision to wait until after Christmas for the memory, instead of as a gift for Christmas, does not leave me with nothing to give him.

On Friday, I finished the shopping for the kiddos. I decided I wanted to give them something in their stockings, so I found some things while killing time at Wal-Mart waiting for Christmas luncheon party thinger for hubby's office.

RIP

Rest in peace, Dan Fogelberg.

The 12 Days of Christmas

...as sung by "Straight No Chaser", a men's a capella group. It gets rather humorous.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Fe11OlMiz8

Finally finished

Back on Sept. 3, I posted that I had started reading James Joyce's Ulysses. I finally finished it a couple of nights ago. It took me over three months to read.

I've heard it said that that's the most readable of his books. If so....wow.

I'm glad to have read it just for the sake of exposure to his style, but it was hard to read through some parts of it (hard as in difficult at times, and hard as in personally distasteful at other times). Others, not so bad. It *was* definitely interesting to get a taste of what life was like in Dublin at the time period of the book, and I did laugh when I found out who the man was at the beach watching the girl. It's also at that point that I understood Joyce's choice of the title.

Not an easy read, but it's done.

Nobly Stands the Grand Old College...

...and advances to the Stagg Bowl once again.

WOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOO! Go Purple Raiders!!!

An upset little girl

I went in to check on Calla, since she was crying and wasn't sounding like she was going to quiet back down herself. I patted her back, and then realized that there was a second child in the little toddler bed. I hadn't been patting HER back, but rather PATRICK'S. Poor little Calla was crammed up against the wall - Patrick had climbed into her bed and was taking up most of the middle of the bed.

Calla calmed back down after I sent Patrick back to his bed (and replaced batteries in her little musical aquarium thing).