on my mind

• I'm considering ending my Facebook tenure.  I've been a member for a little over two years, and its novelty is wearing off.  Although it's a good way to keep in touch with people, I find myself spending too much time scrolling through and reading about people/events/etc. that have no meaning to me.  I'm just pretty over it.  I'm not totally ready to press "delete" on my account, but I'm thinking about it.
• Every morning when we hop in the car, I hold my breath as I wait to hear whether the Christmas carols have started on 103.7.  As of this morning, they hadn't.  I sure hope tomorrow's the big day.  The station keeps it a secret and changes up the start date every year ... c'mon, already.
• I'm getting a little anxious about Christmas shopping.  I've done a tiny bit online, but I really need to get out and do some looking.  I don't have many good ideas yet, so I need some time to shop around before I find myself with only a couple of weeks to spare.  The biggest obstacle I'm facing this is the fact that we don't need one more toy in this house ... can Santa just bring clothes and shoes this year?
• I did get our Christmas cards ordered today, and it felt good to cross that off my list.  I'm excited for them to arrive in the orange Shutterfly box.  
• My parents have decided to make a road trip to Dallas for Thanksgiving.  It will be fun to have them here for a few days, and I'm excited that we'll be together for our annual Thanksgiving night viewing of "Clark" aka "Christmas Vacation".  Gosh, I'm ready to watch that again!
• There is currently a very large pile of clean laundry sitting in my bedroom.  I'm saving it to fold while I watch "Parenthood" tonight if I can stay up that late (yep, it's on a 9:00).  I used to just do laundry on the weekends, but those days have passed.
• I had to stop by our old house today because a package somehow arrived there instead of here.  The house looked good and the new owner had some cute fall pumpkins out front, which made me happy.
• We had a big election in our city this week.  The school board was asking for a tax rate increase to help keep programing in our schools.  I'm happy to say that it passed; if it hadn't, we would have lost 350+ teachers, counseling staff, nursing staff, special education and ESL staffing, GT programs, fine arts programs, etc.  It would have been detrimental to our schools and our kids.  I'm so glad to live in a city that makes public school a priority.  Even residents without kids in the schools understand the impact of strong schools on a community.
• Tomorrow is Friday.  Hallelujah.