That’s right - this week online retailers will be doing just about anything to get our business. I’ve received no fewer than 6 offers to upgrade to 3-day-type shipping for the cost of standard shipping just this morning. Happily, I successfully planned ahead this year and ordered everything I wanted from online places well in advance. Hurray! I still need to spend this evening at the Mall of Doom, but at least I won’t be waiting for packages and hoping they arrive before I have to leave for New England.

Oh wait, I WILL be fretting over packages arriving this week. Why? Because the FedEx delivery in my area at this time of year is completely inept. Saturday, a nice man drove over 2 packages for us that had been mistakenly delivered to his house. This morning, I tracked another package I am expecting only to discover that FedEx thinks it was left at my front door. Wrong. I called the company I ordered from and they quickly marked it as lost and will re-ship it overnight so I should have everything Wednesday. This is not the first year this has happened either and it’s always FedEx. UPS has never been a problem, even though some days they deliver twice (which seems inefficient but I get all my UPS packages on time and at my house so who am I to judge?).

Three batches of little cakes left to do.
Four batches of fudge last week.
Five batches of cookies yesterday.
Six batches of caramel corn Saturday.

No, I am not going to continue to try to make my holiday cooking into a sugar-laden version of the 12 Days of Christmas. Perhaps another year. ;)
But I’ve used seven pounds of butter and about ten pounds of sugar, so I *could* keep going with the 12 Days if I really wanted too.

The Fop took the train down to DC last night to spend a couple days in the actual office. He’ll be back Tuesday night. I’m a little pouty since I’m leaving Thursday afternoon for Christmas so I won’t get to see much of him this week. Of course, it also means I have the bed and the house pretty much to myself. [insert evil grin here] Okay, this just means I get to crank NPR in the morning (oooh, I’m so hardcore) and have popcorn for dinner. But this makes me happy enough that I can stop pouting.

I need to clean out my wonderful car for my holiday road trip too… I’ve been assured that there still will be snow up there when I get there! Still none here, but we’ve got serious wind.

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