Happy Things - Saturday, 22 December

[nuranar]

1. Finishing the retaining wall! A family friend came over with his truck and his trailer. He picked up a cubic yard and a half of dirt to finish filling in the area behind the wall/in the flower beds, and he also got the rocks we had unearthed to help build up his driveway. With my parents, my cousin Abe, our friend, and his grown daughter and teen son, we got it all done before noon. Including two trips to Mansfield. He was only able to get 1 yard of dirt on the first trip, and only about 2/3 of the rocks.

2. Completing my Christmas shopping. You know, the most frustrating part was trying to get out of parking lots. The roads themselves aren't bad, parking is available if you don't mind walking (I don't), the stores are busy but not bad, and the checkout lines aren't that long. But getting back into the street is murder!

3. Making lots of good progress on the gifts I'm making. They should be done in time for Christmas Day, which they don't even need to be - our family Christmas isn't until the 27th. :p

Comments

[jordannamorgan]

I hear you about getting out of parking lots. The mall in Brandon (small town near Tampa) has absolutely the worst-designed parking lot I've ever seen, with only a couple of exits and a difficult maze to navigate to get to them. When I was there early last December, it took an hour to get from the parking space back onto the road. :O