Good morning to you all! It is again cold this morning and the two Wilkinson's are sick. Well, Jack is sick and I am probably coming down with it as I have just a hint of a scratchy throat and am coughing from it. I ran out of vinegar when I used the last of it to set the color on Jackson's little zip up sweater so will get some today and start dosing myself with my miracle sore throat stuff. We sure don't feel like doing all the stuff that has to be done, but we will just push on forward. If Jack is still under the weather this morning, I will go shopping without him, but we have to have groceries today. We also want to go and get the tree because we didn't last night.
This is the first sock I finished for T. Susan, this is the color of the yarn you said you had.
We were sitting watching Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, which I bought yesterday, and Jack though having had a scratchy throat and just a hint of a cough had been ok pretty much said he felt chilled all of a sudden. He was sitting in pj bottoms, a tshirt with a sweatshirt over it and had socks on, but I wrapped him in a blanket and took his temp. It was still going at 100 degrees, so I had him take ibuphrophen and his nyquil and got him upstairs to bed. He went to bed at 7:30 last night. He did go off to sleep though he said all his joints were hurting, a sure sign for him of the flu. He is scared to death of getting h1n1 but I told him not to panic about it that if he felt worse we could always go to the hospital. I quizzed him about anyone being out of work and he said no one had been home sick. We haven't been around anyone that has been sick, so I am sure it is just a 24 hour thing at best. He has been sound asleep and I haven't heard coughing so he may be fine in the morning. Not a great time to get sick, that's for sure. I am buried in stuff to do since they wouldn't groom Fortune yesterday.
I took him for his appt and they said he had to have a canine influenza shot before he could be groomed. I asked why I had never been told this when I made the appt or better yet why they hadn't sent us a card saying that pets being boarded or groomed had to have this shot. It is a 2 part shot, each part being around $30 and his grooming is $40. I just couldn't afford all that so I said, no and left after telling them I just couldn't afford that right now with Christmas and all. I don't object to protecting Fortune and other animals for that matter, but I should have been forewarned about it. Anyway, we are going to do him ourselves for the time being until after the first of the year, then it is his yearly stuff so he can get the darn shots then. They haven't even had a case of this flu here in Tennessee yet, but my vet wants his animals to have the shots. I have the shampoo, conditioner, clippers, scissors, brush and one of those nail sander things, but haven't ever used the stuff. Well, guess I will now.
Jean: I am sure Maddy was beautiful in her new fancy dress. Boy, they have a heck of a big school. I think the office lady told me T's school has 700 students and it is k-5. They go to jr high in 6th grade here, which is ridiculous I think. Kelly and Tom will almost assuredly put T in private school from jr high on here as the upper grades just aren't safe. We have a spectacular catholic high school here, Christian Brothers, which is more than likely where he will go, but they haven't decided about jr high yet. He has one more year at elementary for them to decide. Don't feel bad, I didn't know what EMO was either until Ruthie told me to Google it and then I found the stuff. It is all these kids who dye their hair black and streak it blond, or pink or whatever, lots of tatts and piercings, wear black, tight clothing mixed with oddball stuff like striped socks, van sneakers, etc, etc. Sort of Goth combined with other stuff. She said she wants to be EMO but can't afford to dress like it, which I found hilarious because the kids I saw looked like rejects of Good Will and I am insulting Good Will!
Susan: I had to
when you said what you did about Abby as we were watching an NCIS rerun night before last and I kept thinking, watch Abby and check out her clothes. Hope you had fun with your friends. Nothing better than having chick night. I miss my friends terribly, but you do what you have to do.
I got the watch battery and got it in yesterday and T's John Lennon watch works perfectly. He is just going to love it. It will go with the stack of other stuff I have to wrap. I bought their stocking goodies, but am just going to put them in little red paper gift bags this year. I bought Ruthie that reindeer gift card holder and put an Itunes gift card in it so she can download music to her Ipod, but forgot to get T one so I am just going to print off a Kindle gift certificate so he can purchase more books for his Kindle.
My bil called last night and we had a nice visit. He is my younger sister's husband, the one that lives in Phoenix, and he said he was driving to California for the weekend, (my sister is living with her dd for the time being until they see if she is going to get her yearly bonus check next week before she gives notice and moves to Phoenix with him.) Anyway, he and Jack went to electronics school together when they were first in the military and they are good buddies. His family is the one we are going to go to at Christmas to visit.
Well, I have blabbed enough so am going to sit and knit on the sock. I need to get it done this weekend if I can so I can work on the other gifts. Have a grand Saturday and do something fun. Faye