I GIVE UP!!!

For months, blogger has been having photo upload problems. Who knew!!! I have found out how bad it is in the last couple weeks. Most times, when trying to upload a photo to blogger, I get an error message, or tonight, there's just no picture; A white square and a red X. This has been going on for MONTHS, and they are still "working on a long term fix."

Well, since this doesn't seem to work with any regularity, and any photos that do get posted should be considered miracles, you won't be seeing any photos on my blog. I have tried about 6 times tonight to load photos, with no results. Therefore, I am back to boring text-only blogs until someone can tell me that blogger has really fixed this problem.

Since Thanksgiving is this week, in the United States, I am taking the day off tomorrow to get some Christmas shopping done. It's been a tradition for many years. I used to do almost all my shopping on that day, the day before Thanksgiving. But a few years ago, it was pared down to just "sock presents" and anything else I might come across.

For those that don't know, I celebrate Christmas with my "aunt," who's of no relation to me. She is the aunt of my late best friend who passed away almost 10 years ago. After my parents passed away, her family "adopted" me and I began celebrating most holidays with them, as if I were a member of the family. I even call her Ant, a butchered but long-time mis-spelling of aunt that is a tradition with the family.

We all pitch in and buy sock presents, because we are all children at heart, and what is Christmas without socks/stockings? Each item for the socks gets wrapped in Sunday color comics newspaper, which makes it fun trying to figure out what everything is while still wrapped. Most years at least one person goes overboard and buys WAY too many sock presents. Can't leave any for next year, NO! Must give them all this year. So the socks are stuffed until they almost burst at the seams, and the leftovers are put into plastic grocery bags that are used to prop up the socks until Christmas morning.

Why am I telling you all this? No idea! I started talking about going shopping tomorrow, and instead of talking about Thanksgiving, I immediately flipped to Christmas! So, back to Thanksgiving talk...my aunt, who's not really my aunt, LOVES turkey dinners, she loves cooking it, she loves eating it, it's one of her favorite meals in the whole world. She loves it so much, she typically keeps at leat three turkeys in her freezer at all times. We also have turkey dinners, full turkey, stuffing, sweet potatoes, the whole spiel, twice a year. Once on Thanksgiving and once in the Spring.

Since I'll be with her tomorrow to do some of that Christmas shopping mentioned above, I'm planning on staying there overnight, so I don't have to use more gas to come home, then turn right around the next morning and go right back out there. It will save me 60 miles worth of gas. I still have to figure what I'm going to wear tomorrow and get everything packed. I know what I'm wearing on Thursday...my Dallas Cowboys sweatshirt. I wear it every year, because the other tradition on Thanksgiving, other than turkey and the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, is FOOTBALL! And Dallas ALWAYS plays on Thanksgiving. Dinner is planned for about 1-2 PM, so we can eat and I can get all the dishes done, or most of them at least, before the game starts, I think about 4:15pM local time. I'm not even sure who they're playing, lol. The game won't be over with until about 7:30, so I'll drive home after that, probably with some leftover turkey. That's about all I let her give to me. The rest I just won't eat. But turkey...that's easily nuked and I can nibble on it all night, lol.

And once Thanksgiving is over, I might consider changing up the colors of my blog to reflect the next holiday on the Calendar, Hannukah! Just kidding. I might change the colors to be more festive for Christmas, or I might look for some background to use. Not sure yet. Don't be too surprised if you see a change one of these days soon.