Aiming for the PMA of a glow worm....pt 3

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Apparently tomorrow is going to be the busiest day as it's the first weekend in December Isn't it annoying when you don't know whether to get your food in or not. I've missed the deadline for abroad now, but I'm not stressing about it this year. They'll just have to understand that I've had a lot on

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I've said to my dad that if it hasn't been sorted by the end of next week I'm going to assume that it's a no and I'll get in food for Christmas dinner for the three of us. He laughed and agreed. My sister's problem is her youngest is away at college and wants to see the GF as she is in a different college town, the daughter has a BF and his parents want time, plus her step-daughters both have kids and inlaws, and my other sister also has her BF's family to fit in. My house is the easiest as the only thing I have to consider is that Boxing Day is H's day with our son, and despite H wanting him to sleep over my son is insistent that he doesn't want to.

I'd rather stay home and not have to drive anywhere Christmas Day - I can sit and drink if I want and not have to worry about driving back home LOL . Plus it would mean S13 only having a little time with his presents before we'd have to head out so i'm pretty sure he'd rather stay home as well.

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I prefer to stay home as well My H has got my son on Boxing Day and he's staying over so it's party time for me My gay friend has invited me out at night and I might be going to my friend's during the day. So that's me sorted

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For the first time since H left I took the car in for an oil change - meaning it was just me and my son in the car LOL. It was nice not to have a bunch of grease monkeys trying to sell me service I don't need just because I'm a woman. They were a good bunch of guys - just did the requested oil change and checked all fluids, lights and belts, topping up as needed. They did give a couple of recommendations but no hard sell. I've been in there with H before and gotten the hard sell so I was prepared to turn them down but didn't need to. And as my dad is a mechanic he said he'd take care of the items they recommended. Minor slap on the knuckles from the grease monkeys because the oil change was about 2 months overdue, but I was still under the maximum recommended mileage (by about 20km).

Item one on my weekend to-do list dealt with . Laundry and groceries in the morning, then off to the Christmas market in the city with my son in the afternoon. While we're there, he's hoping to pick up his dad's Christmas present as well.

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Have a great time at the weekend Being on your own as a single woman can make labourers either treat you like you don't know what you're talking about or treat you like oh poor you your on your own let's give you the best service I'm quite savvy when it comes to labourers and I won't be taken for a ride.

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S13 and I finally made it to the Christmas market. We planned to do it last year but last year's plans were to go skating at the outdoor rink, then go up to the market afterwards. By the time we'd done skating we were freezing so didn't go to the market. This year, we went to the market first.

There was a nasty cold wind blowing, which may have kept the crowd down a bit as it wasn't as busy as we'd expected it to be. Lots of little stalls selling all sorts of food, a couple of bier gartens and one stall selling mulled wine - had to pass on that as I drove into the city. Even found one stall selling British chocolates - probably a good thing I didn't have a load of cash on me LOL.

H turned up for his weekly visit yesterday. We did a bit of shopping, H took us for brunch and we finally got our cell phone account split - only an hour on the phone to the provider using the store's phone, plus another half hour in the store doing the contract paperwork. H then spent the whole afternoon and part of the evening setting up my new phone and my son's hand-me-down phone (he got my old one). H even accepted a dinner invite . For the first time in quite a while I didn't get the "isn't it time H was leaving" feeling. Maybe that's because during the whole time I never saw him texting anyone, and the only time I saw him on the phone was when he had to call Apple to help sort out a technical glitch. And on top of that, he also made no stupid or nasty remarks about my dad for a change.

A really nice weekend

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That's really good My H doesn't stick around much lately, apart from to criticise the decorator's work, lol.

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Mine criticised the outdoor Christmas light wiring and the Christmas tree, and the fact that we didn't put up the streamer things all around the room like he used to do, and then ended the critism with "but you did it that way and it's your call now".

S13 commented later about the fact the during the phone call to the cell phone provider H kept referring to me as his XW. I asked if it bothered him and he just kinda shrugged and said "gotta get used to it I guess".

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My H still calls me his wife when I'm in hearing distance, I dunno what he calls me when I'm not, lol.
I'm also not having streamers everywhere either. I've never liked them! I'm thinking of having paper chains in the living room, let's see what H makes of that, lol. Actually they have no right to say what goes on in our houses now as they don't live here!

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You're right - they chose not to live with us so they gave up all right to make any comments. My H just said that it looks a bit plain without the tinsel streamers and indoor Christmas lights. I figure the tree lights are plenty - and so does my son.

Tonight I'll be getting the Christmas presents all wrapped while my son is at his Cadet Christmas banquet. All presents are bought with the exception of my dad's and we already know what we're getting - just have to go and pick it up. I have come up with one little problem that I've got to figure a work around on. Chances are my son is going to want to stay up til I go to bed on Christmas Eve - how is Santa going to fill his stocking and leave his presents under the tree if he's still awake ? And he's at that age where he hasn't admitted whether he still believes or not, and I certainly don't want to take that away from him until he's ready.