What a Week!

Apple Man works 1 weekend a month at a local hospital.  So last weekend it was his turn which means it is my turn to hold down the fort with 3 children and a young fur person, Lolly.  Thinking I was going to loose it I had the brilliant idea I would take them all up to Moonlight for the first ski of the year.  After all I do have poster children:

Shameless bragging, Little Critter and Space Boy make the big time!

We needed to get our wiggles out, pick up our passes and try out our ski legs again.  So we/I get all three kids geared up and ready to go.  The only challenge being, I was not ready to go.  The three of them were sweating to death in their sub zero clothes so I told them to wait outside.  Normal Child charges out the door with Little Critter close behind and that is when I hear the yelping. 

I knew what had happened and I didn't even need to witness it.  I had warned the children not to let the dog out without a lead on because 1. she hates to go in the car and 2. she is going through a keep away phase.

Little Critter, trying to be good, had inadvertently slammed the dog's rear foot in the door in her effort to not get in trouble by letting the dog out.

So now I have a dog who looks like this

I am soooo hurt, give me a cookie.

That was Sunday.

On Monday I made an appointment at the vet for 2:30 to look at Lolly's foot.  At 11:30 I get a call from my neighbor, my husband was in a car accident, he's OK but his car is totaled.  Great. . . 

I get in my car with Little Critter and Lolly and drive the canyon to rescue him.  As soon as I get in cell range, I cancel the vet appointment and that is when I see this:

My heart sank. 

The good news, he really wasn't hurt, mad, but not hurt.  His airbag didn't deploy which means no front impact. 

What happened?  A guy was coming at him in his lane passing on a double yellow.  Apple Man slowed down and lost control on the ice and slid sideways into the SNOWPLOW right behind the illegal passer.  So now you know what a snowplow verses Subaru can look like.  It sheered the front two feet of his car right off.  Strewn all over the highway.  Quite frankly, I am just glad he is alive and unhurt.

The rest of the car looks great.

We had it towed home and will try to sell it as a parts car.

So as I finish preparations for Christmas, I am grateful for my family, our health and our now mostly recovered puppy.  I will look forward to 2012 with great hope that all the people and fur people I love will live to see another year and that all in our lives will be well again.

Cheers to 2011, may it teach me all I needed to learn in this difficult year.

Ugly Christmas Sweaters

The title is not a miss print and a pretty serious way to make some cash on ebay or a good excuse to have a party, depending on your point of view.
So I went to the thrift store yesterday, feeling uninspired by my lack of sales this week.  $62 for week, seriously?  It's Christmas, I should be at $620 for the week.  I needed a jump start and went to the thrift store to find it.
So with whinny 4 year old in hand, I charged in feeling like I owned the place.  Little did I know, Little Critter had adopted the same attitude.  So she grabbed my hand and charged over to the toy section with me glancing at the mugs and children's clothes along the way.  Finding nothing in the toy section worth listing (is everyone buying their Christmas presents for their kids at the thrift store this year?), Little Critter drags me to the book section.  Right past the mugs again and still I see nothing.
The whinning was getting to me and I am not feeling in charge or charged up anymore, 15 minutes of consistant whining can do that to ya.
I grab her little hand with her 'new' books in the other, wander over to the sweater area.  As Moses parted the Red Sea, so did the ebay gods part the isles for me. 
The first of 4 lovelies:

What makes this such a beauty is Santa's mustache:

I am pretty sure Santa did not have a black mustache where I came from.  Gives him the evil villian look.
So here are my other lovelies:

Pink and Brown are the new Red and Green

Mr. Polar Bear, your tails are crossed

Just pure Ugliness

So I am hoping to get theses listed by the weekend so I can ship them out.  I will ask between $29 and $39 (though I think they are priceless).
What will I do if they don't sell?  Well, I guess I'll have to have an ugly Christmas sweater party with my friends and supply the sweaters.  Hopefully, they will be bring the egg nog.
Happy Listing.