IT'S IN THE AIR

Photos courtesy wunderground.com and edmonton.com
This is our beautiful city of Edmonton in the winter. It's even more gorgeous in the summer or in the autumn, with all the greenery and colours.
Christmas is truly in the air here, the snow is crunching underfoot just as it should at this time of year, and the neighbourhood homes all have their Christmas lights sparkling and lit trees in their windows..... ah, the joy of it all~~~ until you hit the stores, anyway, LOL I'm just so glad I have my shopping done early every year, I simply cannot take the jostling crowds and last-minute frantic faces and elbows. Today my sister Pam and I will be braving the grocery stores for our weekly run, and we have to hit Canadian Tire to return a couple things. (for the Americans, that's a big chain here and is like a hardware/housewares/automotive/great place to buy Christmas decorations kind of store) Kinda like a mini-Walmart without the clothing, LOL. And that's about as close as I wanna get to Christmas shoppers at this late date. I wouldn't even THINK of going to West Edmonton Mall (largest indoor mall in N.America and I think the world), we'd have to be completely wacko to even consider it now until sometime after the January sales die down.

It's warmed up after that cold snap we had a week ago, thankfully, and is now much more enjoyable. Today the sun is shining and I'm looking forward to being out in the crisp, fresh air and poor Pam won't have to be brushing whackloads of snow off her car everytime we get back into it. Last night we bundled up all our Christmas gifts in a big box, complete with bubble wrap around the breakable items, and it's ready for us to send off today to our sister Linda, just north of Calgary. So one of our stops today will be at PakMail ~~ now that REALLY feels like Christmas ~ sending gift packages off in the mail!!

Hubby came down with a bad case of the flu yesterday ~ I woke up at 8:00 to him sitting on the side of the bed groaning, he had been upchucking and was dizzy and really hot...... so he spent most of the day in and out of bed resting, while I served him gingerale and sympathy and prayed real hard that the flu shot I got in October is a GOOD one!! LOL
Today he's been up, showered, shoveled the walks and is already out the door to do some errands of his own. So far, so good.....he doesn't seem to feel too badly....probably just really tired.

I've managed to work out most of my sadness and anger about the job situation in the last couple of days...... but I still have to go into work tomorrow to all the talk there'll be about it, the feelings everyone else will have about it. But I'm a tough broad, I can take it. LOL In the meantime, I'm going to have to get my arse off this computer and do something with myself and this bed-hair so I'll be ready to go when Pam is. (she's the chauffeur, I'm the princess) JUST KIDDING PAM!! I'd say I'm the "navigator" but I can't even do that worth a diddlysquat, LOL

So, I'm off to my vanity table to apply some warpaint to this wan and getting wrinkled face, and get some clothes on. Yes it's nice out there, but I don't think I can make do in my nightie..... so until next time everyone, have a great Sunday and be good to yourselves! PEACE!

Love Jude