bluebear

My department has been allowing some positions 1 remote day a week for about 10 years. I've been in that group for 6. We were told from the start that this was a privilege, and if we had a meeting or some other obligation, we had to come in. Sometimes, people will still take meetings virtually, but in-person meetings are much easier for me. So I will still come in. However, I live 2 miles from work, so it's easy. A few years ago, my role was slightly different, so there actually were things that I had to put my hands on to do. Currently there isn't much, but it could change. Plus, sometimes you just need to see people. But it is nice having some time without people and interruptions. (Plus, I share a trailer with 6 other people, and sometimes they are very talkative and distracting! ) Our HR department frowns on remote working. We started this years ago before it was a very common thing. I fully expect at some point we will lose them. Oh well.

I just put my phone on "Night Mode". I wish I knew how to do all the extra manual fancy settings, but I don't. With Night mode, it does take a few seconds to take the picture (about 5), so you do have to be still. Mine are still a little smeary. I imagine I could put it on a tripod, but that would take some setup, and I'm too lazy for that!

Happy New Year! It's a beautiful night out tonight, and there so many stars out. Also Mars and Jupiter are showing out.

Nope. I get excited when I see them go up too.

Merry Christmas! Hope everyone had a great day!

It took 7 days, but my house is decorated. 3 full days, then 4 nights after work. Whew! I'm taking tonight off, but wrapping will start tomorrow. I really need to start on my baking and candy making as well. But like others, I just can't get into it yet. It still seems too early for food stuffs.

I buy a new washcloth every year! Just one.

I have made good progress shopping. Some people are about done like my 3 kids and 3 grandkids and husband. Others, like my mom and step dad and sister, I still have no ideas for. I have not done any wrapping. I use my son's room for wrapping, so when he leaves on Friday after visiting for Thanksgiving, I'll set up the table and bring all the wrapping supplies out. Also, I am an "even number of presents to open" person. So I sometimes wait to wrap some things, to see if I need to put 2 related things together, or wrap them separately. The last several years I have done pretty good with keeping up with wrapping though. One year, everyone was waiting to open presents, and I was downstairs wrapping about 15 presents. Yikes. So I'll never let that happen again! I'm ready to get started though, and get them out of my son's room and under the tree! Which isn't up yet.

My Aldi never got the Christmas cactus, that I saw. I've got 2 so I didn't really need them. They did get poisettias though, but were $3.99. My first thought was, they should be $.99 at Home Depot soon!

I remembered seeing it in yesterday's email. I looked first on the main GD site, but then realized the BF site would be more relevant.

https://gottadeal.com/black-friday/bath-body-works-black-friday-offer-revealed-444482

We have given both my mom (73) and MIL (76) Aura frames. They love them. My MIL especially loves seeing new pictures show up. And they have sales regularly. They are also available at Kohls and Amazon.

Husband has a few power tools on his list. I had been looking at the Home Depot B1G1 deal. Yesterday he mentioned needing some more batteries. That happens to be one of the qualifying items, so then I got another tool from his list free!

This is great. Thank you!

There's a few things I may venture in for. If I can make myself leave the house, and grab my patience on the way out. Gift cards and Xbox cards, batteries, food chopper, maybe toys, zip lock bags, almond bark...