Ok, so Sunday morning, as I get in the car to go to church, I realize that some items were missing from my car. I had left it unlocked (for like the first time EVER) because of a threat of ice, and someone got in and stole some wrapped Christmas presents and MY BIBLE! Ok, so I go to church, then out to dinner with the 'Rents. Afterwards, I went to Target to replace the Christmas gifts.
When I get home, I walk to the garbage cans to toss some trash and guess what I find... my Bible and the two presents, which had been unwrapped enough for the thief to see that they were just relatively inexpensive toys for a friend's daughters. Everything was ok. There was some water damage to my Bible, but it's dried out ok. The packaging for the toys was sort of wet, but that'll be thrown out anyway, so I just rewrapped them and returned the new ones. All in all, I'm not out anything, but I have to say it is a little unsettling to have something stolen like this. I find myself double checking the doors multiple times. I hope that goes away soon. sigh...
There was a pleasant surprise. I received my Thanksgiving rubber ducks earlier than expected. That meant that the Indian duck, for my Village People collection of ducks, got there that much quicker. And I was able to trade one of my extra Indians for a biker duck. So now I'm only a cowboy and a navy duck away from recreating the Village People (or the Village Ducks, as I prefer to call them) in rubber ducks. I'm very excited and will keep the blog advised of my progress. I'm thinking I can have the set filled by the end of the year, or at least early 2008!
Otherwise, this week has gone so-o-o sl-o-w. Yesterday, we had the staff Christmas luncheon where we revealed our secret Santas. And today was the firm Holiday Luncheon at the Kennel Club. Not as ritzy as one might like, but we had a good group at my table, so a good time was had by all. I'm just happy there's only one more day and it's a 4-day weekend for Rose. Tomorrow I give Steve his present. Carrie got hers today, and she was happy with it, but Steve is SO difficult to buy for. He has replaced my father as the most difficult person to shop for in my life.
Two items of good news cheering up Rose: 1) just read that the Colbert Report is returning to the tube on Jan 7th; and 2) we get to wear jeans to work tomorrow. Jeans for Rose equates to wearing my comfy tennies. Comfy tennies, somehow, means that Rose is more productive. Which, considering after 1:00 tomorrow afternoon I'll be the only person on my side of the building, is really going to be needed. If I hadn't got the stomach flu a couple of months ago, I'd be taking tomorrow afternoon off and going to see the new Gerard Butler movie.
Plans for the weekend include meeting some family for a luncheon/gift swap in Southern Illinois; going to see National Treasure 2 after church Sunday; and me and the kids (Sophie and Gizmo) spending Christmas Eve/Day with the 'Rents/Grand-'Rents. Should be fun, assuming the cats don't tear down the tree! :)
