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Time for the annual Christmas show at work

by The Shopping Maniac

My husband is going to be playing guitar at our hospitals’ annual Christmas event this coming Thursday. He’s been been busy picking out songs and practicing them on his guitar over the last month and a half or so. He’s also been taking his guitar to work to practice with one of the doctors he works with as well as a few other people that he works with in the hospital that will be joining them in performing.

I might stroll over to the hospital on Thursday to watch the show. I’ve certainly put in my time listening to all the practice guitar chords – I think I deserve to hear the finished product … plus I’ll get to hear the rest of the “group” too.

Does your workplace have an annual holiday event? Do employees put on any kind of talent show or anything like that? That’s one of the things that I like about the hospital – there’s this Christmas performance every year, but there’s also a talent show usually in June or July I believe and that’s always fun.

I still have Christmas shopping to do

by The Shopping Maniac

Ah – I can’t believe it, I still have tons of Christmas shopping to do. I don’t know about you guys, but I really don’t love going out there into the crowded busy malls to shop at this time of year. It’s just too crazy.

Obviously I’m still going to have to do some shopping in stores, but luckily it’s still early enough in the month that I can do a little shopping online if I can find some gift ideas for the people on my list. For example, one of my friends lives in a rural area and she’s always complaining about her cellphone service. She has a lot of trouble getting reception so .. I found this wilson cellular booster online and I’m thinking about getting her one. I’m sure it would help make her cellphone work better for her when she’s at home.

Ok .. time to start browsing online for gifts … How about you, are you all caught up on your shopping or are you still checking people off your list too?

Might do a little Black Friday Shopping

by The Shopping Maniac

I’m thinking about doing some online Black Friday shopping today. I’m in Canada, but I’m pretty sure that I can take advantage of some of the great deals that will be taking place today.

Lets see – I certainly haven’t finished my Christmas shopping so I have quite a few gifts to purchase, plus there’s a few items that I need around the house that I wouldn’t mind finding on sale either.

For instance I’ve been hoping to upgrade our desktop computer for quite a while and I’d love to upgrade the hard drive. I really like Maxtor hard drives and I’ll bet that I can find a great deal on one with say 500 gb of storage.

I’m sure some of you are planning on doing some online shopping today too. What kinds of things do you plan to shop for on Black Friday?

Another Thyroid Biopsy

by The Shopping Maniac

I was in the hospital earlier today for a small procedure. I had to have a Thyroid biopsy – again. I’m supposed to have my thyroid tested every 6 months but this is the first biopsy that I’ve had in two years. Yes my doctors are extremely behind in my health care. Not Good.

The doctor doing the procedure in the hospital ultrasound department was fairly nice. He was kind of funny as he set everything up. I guess his assistant – the ultrasound person, couldn’t find any medication carts or surgical carts so he set everything up pretty much on my chest and stomach. That was odd .. but it worked.

Now I’m just trying to recovery from having three holes punched into my neck by the needles. It wasn’t really painful, but my neck does hurt now. My neck is also somewhat swollen where the needling was done. I’m sure I’m going to have bruises.

Hopefully my test results come out ok. I guess I’ll find out sometime next week.

Clearing out the clutter

by The Shopping Maniac

I’ve been spending a little bit of time cleaning out drawers and closets and other storage areas in my house lately. Unfortunately there’s a lot of stuff to clean out and go through since we’re kind of pack rats or so it seems looking at the stuff we’ve stored away.

My greatest problem is that I don’t know where to start. I suppose I should just start in one room and work my way through the house, but so far I’ve just been doing a little bit of cleaning and clearing out here and there. Oh don’t worry the house isn’t overly cluttered or anything … it’s just that we’ve accumulated a lot of stuff that we just don’t use and that I’m sure we won’t ever use again.

The other day I was looking in an upstairs closet where we keep things for the bathroom, hair care and so on and I came across some older straightening irons. I think I’ve had those for twenty years or more. I keep my hair short these days but a long time ago I used to have it longer and when it’s longer it gets wavy and sometimes I’d use the straightening iron to straighten my hair for a sleek look. I probably should get rid of them but lately I have been thinking of growing my hair longer again so maybe this was a good find after all?

How often do you go through your closets and drawers to clear out the clutter? Regularly or almost never?

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