Okay... now that that's out of the way, I can move onto happier things...
Happy Thing #1: Our kids are coming home early from their mother's house!
Yes, I know that she's technically their mother, but since my hubby and I have them more often and take care of them a thousand times better than she does (at least in my honest opinion) I feel quite safe calling them my kids too... The circumstances surrounding our wee ones arrival are kinda sucky... their mother's hubby needs to be readmitted to the hospital again and our youngest was bitten by her mother's dog, though apparently it was a nip that punctured the skin not an awful bite... this remains to be seen... there's nothing like getting a phone call a little after 9AM from your hubby's ex and she's asking when the youngest child last got a tetanus shot... *sigh*
Happy Thing #2: My parents, who live a great distance away from my current place of habitation, sent some Xmas money my way early so that we could do our proxy-shopping for them before all of the maniacs come out of the wood-work to buy stuff... and in one day, I managed to spend the portion of the money that was intended for me... so here's what my parents got me for Xmas:
- breakfast and lunch during my 5 hours at the mall yesterday... yeah, mom, I know you said no food, but the chinese food there brings me a ton of joy and I get to eat it so very rarely... I can still taste the delightful teriyaki chicken mingling with the green peppered beef and fried rice... yum!
- 1 bag of stringless sugarsnap peas in the pod which I shall be eating shortly... I know, I know... again with the food... but peas in the pod remind me of home and the memories that they bring to mind while I eat them are worth a thousand times more than every penny I spent buying them.
- 1 brown, wide-brim, 100% wool hat... no no.. an awesomely comfortable and completely must have hat that can be worn in the winter or the summer... I love wider brimmed hats and this one reminded me of something that Indiana Jones might wear if he was a she.
- and 1 Vivitar ViviCam 3785, also known as my very first digital camera... I'm seriously thinking about naming it because it chirps in the most adorable way possible when I turn it on and off... it can take pictures, like the one I've posted just now, or it can take little mini-movies... and it could quite possibly be one of the coolest things I get this year!
So, much thanks goes to my loving parents who are, by far, the best parents a gal like me could ever hope to ever have, in this life or the next... be assured, dear mum and dod, that your long-distance daughter will be having a lot of fun with her early Xmas gifts... especially the camera... muwhahahahahahaha! ^_~
