Oh it is getting closer...

Yep the day is looming large on the horizon.   All my pressies are sorted and sourced,  and everyone is online!  Well High Street shopping is beyond me at the moment, so internet is fantastic.   There are a few folk who have been knocked off the list,  well there is only so long you can keep giving without receiving.  So Christmas this year has been a relatively cheap affair,  lots of bargains on Amazon, but each present was chosen with care to ensure it suited the recipient.    Ebay also came to the rescue for a few things!

This morning was spent at an outpatient's clinic, full to the brim of nature's casualties,  courtesy of our wintry weather,  broken arms and legs everywhere.   So that meant an elongated stay,   we didn't get seen till 1pm, then it was decided by junior doc that perhaps the Consultant needed to be consulted...    trouble was he was also needed in theatre.  So we ended up going home without a result,  at least they got all the tests out of the way.   And so we get to do it all again next week!   Joy.  More annoying was the ruddy car park, the multi storey,  had to park up on the second floor, but the sodding lift wasn't working!   I was fuming.  Only bright side was that they have a flat rate charge of 2 quid, regardless of length of stay.   So after arriving at 10.15 we finally left at 2.45!    Was waiting in a pick up point for mum,  in which was a very officious/jobsworth looking security guard invested with booking anyone parked illegally,   think it took him 20 minutes to write out ticket for car parked next to me, which had been there for well over an hour.  I'd only just got there, but I thought if that chap comes anywhere near me... 
So that was my day over,  managed the last bit of QVC,  but not a spot of crafting,  same as yesterday,  had to put up Xmas decs,   had got neice's boyfriend to get them from loft, so nowt else for it but to put them up or live with large box and tree in bin bag for rest of week.    Had to get new set of lights,   last lot had too many out of order bulbs,   so got a set at half price at supermarket.   Not sure how I fitted 100 bulbs on a 2 and a half foot tree, but I did,  whats more it is only half a tree... ! 

As for weather,  well it has been freezing!  We got a brief respite on Sunday,   it did warm up a tad,  but Monday morning the world was a ghostly white, the frost didn't lift till well after lunch time.   It took me an age to defrost the car,  thick ice on windscreen, couldn't open the driver's door,  glad to say the passenger door did open so could push open the other door.   Car started first time and soon warmed up.

Hoping tomorrow I may get to finish off what needs to be finished off,  who knows, have to put prescription in chemist first thing - last time they had to ring round to get my painkillers!  Fingers crossed for an uneventful day, please!