bluebear

Well, you never know when you will need an emergency gift! So it's good to be prepared.

Hehe!! Sale starts Wednesday. I got $10 KC yesterday, so I guess that's what I'll be spending it on. I also started looking at the St Nicholas Square throw blankets. Those aren't as plush, but still nice. And they have a gingerbread design... On a blue background! That matches all my "stuff". Then I did the usual search on 'gingerbread'. And now I have 4 gingerbread items in my cart. In September. Trying to convince myself I don't need to buy them yet, they will be on sale again before they are relevant.

I got next week's Kohl's flyer in the mail today, for their "Lowest Prices of the Season" Sale. And THE throws are in there, $9.99! Not quite BF price, but good if you want to make sure you get your favorite style. Or, the black Halloween cats. Just sayin'.

I bought a something last year (nest maybe) and then realized that it had a monthly subscription. So that's one thing you'll want to look at.

The socks came from Amazon, of course! AND they have kids sizes too. I'll be getting those for my grandson. The ones I have are women's, yesterday's were pink BB-8! But I'm pretty positive they also have men's. I've always liked Star Wars. I'm not a huge junkie, but I do like it. Daddy took me to see the very first one when I was about 4 or 5. In the 4th grade, I had an Empire Strikes Back lunchbox. One of my 3 kids likes it. The others are "meh".

So, for my birthday, my husband got me Star Wars 12 Days of Socks! You open one a day, like an advent calendar. But I am not waiting until Christmas, I'm opening them now! I was so excited, and my family (especially my mama) thought I was nuts.

I dont have any ideas either. My boys are getting older, and it gets harder each year. But usually I have some direction and at least know the big gift. They do usually start giving me ideas eventually, and then there's too much stuff! Grandson will be almost 4 this year, so THAT'S going to be fun!

I am too, and I'd wait too. But... I didn't pass that to them evidently!!

Oh yay! I do my grocery shopping at Target, so an extra 10% off will be nice!

Kanyon, what I mean is that they don't want to wait until Thanksgiving. My guess is they won't make it into October. I think they were waiting to see if there are any price changes to the existing model once the new ones are announced today.

My parents are wanting to buy Apple watches for each other this year. I keep telling them about gift card deals at Thanksgiving... But I'm not sure they are going to be willing to wait that long! Once they've decided to buy something, it's usually not long after they get it. Oh well.

Still in the 90s here! The nights are getting into the 70s, so at least there's that I guess. But I left the house without my sweater on, and haven't put it on yet, and even in the summer that's unusual for a work day! I do believe it is hotter here this week than it was a couple weeks ago.

I don't have any ideas for anyone yet. Well, maybe something for my husband, but I bet he'll come up with something else he wants before then. But no other ideas for anyone else. Guess I need to start thinking harder!

So we went on a short overnight trip, yay! And I got a cuckoo clock for a souvenir/birthday present, double yay! But I hope no one is going to want anything super expensive for Christmas this year!

Cool! Thanks Brad!

Grandson got to turn around in his carseat this weekend! He was excited. He reached the max rear facing weight for his seat, at 3 years 7 months. He and I discussed last weekend that he would be turning around soon, and he said he didn't want to, but he probably didn't even know facing front was an option. I'm just glad to not have to hear all the great grandparents complain about it anymore. ( now they will probably complain how his head flops when he sleeps or something...)

First day of my birthday month. Woke up this morning to all the emails with "It's your birthday month" points and specials. Yay.

Yesterday I impulse bought a sock loom. I might have me a warm cozy pair of socks to wear for black Friday... Next year... Not sure what I got myself into!!

Good idea!!

See, I was sad last year and this year wth no school supplies to buy... I love school supplies. I'm already looking forward to year after next when my grandson starts kindergarten!

Just packed the youngest son and sent him back off for his second year of college. We'll head up there in a few hours to take a second load. I usually handle college move-ins okay, but I don't think I'm going to do very well this time.

And alternatively, I'm used to starting in August (even did when I was a kid), and being out by Memorial Day. When I hear of kids still still in school in June, I have the same thought... "I can't believe they are still in school in June!" Someone told me once it has to do with the availability of AC in different regions. Not sure it's true, but since it's typically hotter in August than June, guess it would make sense to start school a little later. Or did historically. I've only visited North twice, and both were in the winter, so I don't know how that is.

We just finished our first week of school. Monday we start deployment of 33,000 chromebooks to the students. Today we found out that the vendor didn't place last years devices back in the correct storage slots in the boxes, so our plan of just grabbing them quickly out of the assigned slot just got harder. We had big enrollment changes, so over 500 devices had to be moved around today, and one of the supervisors provided incorrect information to his team (and ignored the printed signs I provided to make sure everything went to the right location), so that created a big mess. And then to top it off, we found out at 4pm that 2 schools had a box of devices (20 in each box) that smelled like... Well, they are smelly and not safe to distribute. Did I mention distribution starts Monday? And oh, that I am inventory manager... Sigh... Happy August.

Yep. The kids ended May 25th, so they got 9 weeks of summer. Then our years are in 6 week sections, where they then get a week break.

School starts on Monday here!