It is my believe that winter is here. The temps have stayed well below warm for quite some time now and there has been frost on my vehicle now for two days in a row. I am somewhat encouraged because, although the temperatures here are below freezing, the temperature in Oklahoma still is not. This means that I MAY have some chance of not getting hypothermia and freezing to death whilst in basic training. (Please note that I say "MAY", I'm pretty sure a person could freeze to death in any temperature below about 75). Anyways, this whole "frost" development probably means that I should invest in a snow scraper, yes, I live in Erie PA in mid-November and I do not own a snow-scraper. I swear I had one last winter... but perhaps it stayed at my parents house, I do not know. What I DO know is that I had better get a new one before my car is hopelessly and completely buried in snow.
The other thing that I have noticed about this whole winter thing is that when you run your heater, your gas bill goes up. This is a much more sad prospect than that of being outside to freeze to death because now, I'm doomed to die in my house. Either we run the heat and then are unable to afford the gas bill (although we are still in the trial run of the heater and trying to figure out exactly how warm we can be without going broke) or we keep the heat low and freeze to death. The bright side of the latter part is that we will have great credit 'cause we won't have any late payments.
Next week is Thanksgiving week. We will be traveling Wednesday and Thursday for sure because I work Monday and he works Friday. Now we just have to figure out if we can be gone Tuesday as well or if we need to stay at home so that we can do the cleaning at the building... I'm really hoping that we can head up to the in-laws on Tuesday so that we can have a little extra time up there. Worst case scenario we go up Tuesday night and get there around 8-9pm. That won't be too bad, I've done it before. We shall have to see.
I do not work Black Friday. A fact for which I am thankful. I have no wish to attempt to deal with hordes of pet-purchasing people. However, I will probably attempt to get my own black Friday shopping done... Assuming we can afford to... I definitely want to get some Christmas shopping done because I'm sure I'll find stuff that's on sale that I can give to some of my siblings. Most of whom I have zero idea of what I'm getting them.
Well, I was planning on also putting in here something about the wonderful food that I've been making in the crockpot but this is already getting long and I can't really remember if I already did a crockpot blog... SO, for now. I say adieu, I shall be back later. Good-Bye to all and have a GREAT Thanksgiving if I'm not back before then!
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