It's that time of year again...!

Time to spend money I don't really have to buy stuff for people that I'd rather not. Christmas is for children. I can see spending tons of money on the kids but not the adults. Call me Scrooge. But that's not how the wife will have it! She insists that her kids (in their 30's now) get PJ's every year. It's her tradition.

I have no idea what anyone wants. The nieces get the same thing from us every year. Cash. The grandkids...who knows really? Even they don't. Amanda mentioned more games for her Nintendo DS and all Kirs really wants is internet access. He used to have it but Dad's financial situation had to force him to cancel the service. We're thinking of going in on half for cable access for the year. We'll see. Kris has been spending quite a few weekends over here connecting his XBOX to my router and playing Call of Duty until the wee hours of the morning. Talking to his friends online while playing it too!

He also has Guitar Hero. That is so cool. We watched him play for like an hour and a half. He's pretty good at keeping up with the music.

Judy and I hardly ever buy anything for each other for Xmas. She's been looking at HDTV's but decided we can't afford it right now. She'd rather go on a vacation somewhere later in the year.
She's also been looking at washers and dryers since ours went on the fritz. Well, the repairman just left today and the total to fixed both came to $377. Still cheaper than new ones!

I tell my sister, Heidi, (http://www.ourmarlowefamily.blogspot.com/) every year not to get us anything but she always does anyway. So to make it easy on you Sis, here's what's on my wish list:

http://www4.jcpenney.com/jcp/X6.aspx?DeptID=53006&CatID=54416&GrpTyp=SIZ&ItemID=1459a8b&attrtype=&attrvalue=&CMID=53006%7c53919&Fltr=&Srt=&QL=F&IND=10&CmCatId=530065391954416

Size: Large (Beer gut ya know!)

Besides, It's freaking cold here now! Current temp as I post this is 15°. And there's like 4" of snow on the ground right now!