I had to force myself to go out into the horrendous weather a couple of hours ago. Believe me, even though the house isn’t that warm (on account of the pilot being out on the heater) it’s still warmer (and drier!) inside than it is outside. And once the individual room heaters get going it’ll be even warmer still.

I had to make a run out to grab some necessary food stuffs that I had run out of (milk, eggs, bread, rice, beans, and so on) and to pick up some cleaning supplies that I had completely run out of and there was a sale going on that I really wanted to take advantage of. The kitchen sinks look really bad, on account of accumulated hard water stains, and some grime that was left over from Thanksgiving that I couldn’t get off. Despite this house being an old farm house the sinks are your regular kitchen sinks and not copper kitchen sinks for which I’m thankful. I can only imagine how much more troublesome those would be to clean.

While out I also picked up a few Christmas gifts because, apparently, I didn’t have everyone’s gifts bought as I thought I had! I was just standing there in the aisle trying to figure out if there was anything else I needed to pick up when I glanced towards one aisle and saw something that was too cute for words:

They’re these adorable Santa-hat and collars for pets and they’re so cute too! The one on the left (red collar) is for Denali and the one on the right (green and white) collar is for Isis. I can’t believe I actually forgot all about getting the cats their Christmas presents. I didn’t want the girls to have the exact same thing, and the way I figure it, the thicker collar is probably warm and will do Isis some good since she’s always cold during the winter.

Don’t worry, when the girls get these gifts there will be a lot of pictures posted on the blog!

Now I’ve got everyone’s Christmas gifts taken care of. I think.