Old Jews telling Jokes

So my sweet hubby for Christmas bought me a series of books on MP3. I totally love my books on MP3 and was excited. However the surprise was slightly ruined when he came out of the house to meet me in the driveway on Christmas Eve. He looked so upset.

He told me he was disappointed and was worried I would be too. He told me that one of my gifts had not shipped with the others and that when he got it, it was wrong. I asked him what happened and he showed it to me.  It was a DVD of Old Jews telling Jokes. It was kind of funny because apparently it was a gift for someones family and it came to us instead.  Dan said, "Now someone isn't getting their Christmas gift."  I couldn't help it. I started laughing. I said: "You mean they didn't get their Hanukkah gift."

He called Amazon and spoke with a nice woman. She was very impressed that he was more worried about this person's gift not getting to the right place than he was about his own package not being here for his wife. She actually re-ordered both gifts and gave Dan a $20.00 credit. Merry Christmas to him!

We put the DVD back in the box but had to re-tape it. We only had scotch tape and painters tape. So it's taped with blue tape. UPS should pick it up today.

LOL   so somewhere someone is waiting patiently for a DVD of Old Jews telling Jokes.

Project Christmas Craft in progress

I talked my husband into buying me a belt sander.  I have this great idea "Thanks Beth for the inspiration", and decided to do a wood project as gifts for my co-workers.  The project includes a scroll saw, table saw (not mine), and a sander due to issues w/said scroll saw.

I bought the wood I needed and went to cut it with my New used Scroll saw. Oops. Can't cut wood wider than 2 inches. (please hold the perverted snickers to a minimum.)

So I cut the smaller pieces and had to drag my wood to Bill's house. He has a table saw and set it up to cut stuff for Beth and me. He even cut those pieces for me. Bless his heart!  

But now I have a new problem. My scroll saw bought specifically because it had the disk sander attachment, did not have the attachment with it. No problem, right? It's a Craftsman. Sears has a parts departments.  except you have to "order" the part. But I didn't know the name of the part and the stupid guide is unreadable.  So I broke down and actually *shudders* instant messaged someone at Sears. I got someone named Aaron who typed more like Mohamed.  He was very nice and very kind but had a hard time finding what I needed. finally he told me someone else would have to call me in a  few days while they did some research. WHAT? 

Didn't they know I needed the part now?  I mean I know I procrastinated, and now it's only an emergency on my part, but sheesh!  (Yes I totally know it's my own damn fault and sadly enough to say, I will probably do it again.)

So I talked to Dan and begged for a belt sander. We tried to find a used one, but KSL was not very fruitful. So I got him to buy me one on our Sears card.  And I still had to wait like 3 days for it because they were out of stock at the store. 

(Side note. The Sears Grand on 5600 West  should be renamed: Sears not so Grand! They didn't even have it on a display. Had to truck down to another Sears).

Finally got my sander and still couldn't use it until this weekend. It sure gets dark early these days. lol
So I set it up today. I'm pretty sure I didn't do it properly, but it worked and that's all I really wanted.

So, I was able to sand all the wood, and it only took and hour as apposed to the 4-5 hours it would have taken if I had tried to do it by hand.  I even got the pieces spray painted so I can put the acrylic paint on and get them done. Yay me! I will post a picture when they are completed. I just don't want to now because my co-workers read my blog.

So projext has gotten started. Let's hope I can finish before Friday.

The Halls are decked. Now they are suing for assult.

Got the tree up, got the decorations up and even convince Lance to put the orniments on my tree. They are clustered together, but I didn't have to do it, so I'm pretty happy about it.

Done with shopping. I go all out every year. I can't help it. It's my Christmas treat to myself. I love buying stuff for others and I really love it when I get something on sale that I know someone will just LOVE.

Got my blessings this holiday season too. Spent so much money I broke the bank. Literally. We supported the Candy Cane Corner at work, and I went a bit over board buying stuff to donate. Realized I over spent and was kind of panicky at the idea of telling Dan that we had no money.  I mean No Money! There was like $4.00 in one account and $3.00 in another.  I knew my credit card was MAXED out, but on a whim I checked on it anyway, just to see if there was a few bucks just sitting there, when what wonderful to my eyes appear? A credit increase my dears. 

Yep. I guess that's what happens when you help others, someone helps you. Now I can at least buy grocery's and put gas in our cars. Now if I could just find someone who is willing to wrap all the stuff I bought, and takes MasterCard.......