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Ah,  once again, my yearly quest to buy the perfect Christmas gifts for my loved ones begins.  Being a creature of comfort, I tend to buy comfortable,  warm gifts including pajamas, slippers, and fleece blankets.   I romantically  like to imagine winter being all about snuggling on the couch, with a favorite movie and a cup of hot chocolate, while watching the snow flakes gently fall outside.  I try hard to forget the harsh reality of scraping  ice off my car and the shoveling of the white stuff.

I didn’t mean to get on the subject of winter, this was about Christmas gifts and shopping.  I think rather than heading to the mall today, I will catalog shop from my couch, with my cocoa and find those perfect plush bedroom slippers for the folks on my list.

Another wonderful Thanksgiving has almost come and gone and I’m looking forward to a four day weekend.  The wife and I made a simple but delicious meal,  and have had a  relaxing day mostly laying in front of the boob tube.  They say turkey makes you sleepy, but I think it is also just the idea of a mid week day off.

The weather has been picture perfect today in Virginia with a beautiful blue sky.

Later on we are packing up a pumpkin pie and taking it to visit some friends for the evening.   That will be the perfect ending to this day, with much fun and laughter with our closest friends.

One day when I have more time, I’d like to research and learn why the American public is so fascinated with Nascar.  It really appears to me to be cars going around and around on a giant oval track.  Yes the cars are attractive, and the uniforms, and the drivers are very charismatic and they are going incredibly fast, but still I fail to see the infatuation.

I guess the fun is picking a driver you want to support, and rooting for him at each race.

I think it would be fun to travel the country to the different race courses and see the races live.  I’ll have to add that to my bucket list.

Got a phone call tonight from my first baby sitter who i have known all of my life, and i consider her to be  my second mother and a very good friend.  She is 94 years old and having some health issues and recently had to surrender her drivers license to the DMV.  She is bummed, and misses driving so much.   I know i will never live to be 94 , but you have to give credit to someone with that much willpower, spunk and energy for life.  It has to be difficult for our senior citizens to give up their freedom,  God Bless em!!

Tonight we all get an extra hour of sleep, thanks to Daylight Savings Time coming to an end. I always set my clocks back when the late night news comes on, as I am rarely up at 2:00 am to do the official change back. I figure that if I’m asleep I don’t know when it’s 2:00 am anway.