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[MichelleHW101]

So my younger brother called on Thanksgiving to say what to buy his daughter for Christmas.  Now she’s five (will be six in Jan.).  So she’s in that toy phase.  She is really into those interactive FurReal toys and this year she wanted the winged StarLily unicorn.  Telling me then ordinary wouldn’t be a problem (though I prefer to start shopping in early November.) except StarLily happened to be the hottest toy for girls this year.  I swear it was a real life version of the Christmas movie Jingle All the Way with Arnold Schwarzenegger.  Of course I didn’t have to drive from toy-store to toy store I just looked it up on line.  All the Targets, Toys R Us’s, and the Walmarts in town were sold out.  So were the toy shops in the next town over.  The closest one that had it was a half-hour out.  Luckily when I got there, there was still plenty to choose from.  I was a little upset I had to find it myself because the woman stacking the shelves (in the toy department) had no idea what I was talking about but at least I got it.     

[MichelleHW101]

Of course DC is lighting the national Christmas Tree before Lighting the National Menorah even though Hanukkah is the first and second week of Dec. While Christmas is at the end of the month. 

[MichelleHW101]

I can’t believe how little there is in stores for Hanukkah this year.  Here in VA, in several stores, it’s only a dinky little shelf in a midway section of the store, or it just a bottom shelf in a hide-a-way section of the store.  Ok, it’s not like us Jews buy a lot for Hanukkah but still.  Don’t we have a right to stuff the way Christians for Christmas do?     

[MichelleHW101]

When I wrap gifts, doesn’t matter for who or what occasion, I have to put a ribbon on it, not just a bow.  I was taught that way by my grandmother and now that she’s gone I feel the only way I can truly honor her is to wrap the way she taught me.  It’s sort of like a family tradition now.

[MichelleHW101]

I prefer to print out my own gift tags rather than get some from the store.  Not that I make them more personal it’s just that I can never find the size I need or a picture I actually like on those generic ones.  Plus, I can never find any real ones for other holidays besides Christmas like Chanukah, mother/father’s day or Birthdays and I hate shopping on-line.  That’s honestly how one racks up so much credit card debt. 

[dreamyxo]

Omg I am so sick of working!  I swear I cannot do this for another couple of decades I refuse.  I need to get my butt in gear and start figuring out a home business I can do by myself.  I need to start figuring out how I can retire early. 

[bigedshult]

don't balm the seek the house speak it the bum Obama and his wasted spending' on thing that are not good for most of us only his bum and frinds

[MichelleHW101]

I use Zazzle all the time.  I can personalize any item I want and the prices are reasonable.  I can use pics I have or even create clip art using PowerPoint and just upload my creation to a t-shirt, greeting card, or any other items I want.  It’s honestly a great way to not only give gifts that are personal but also a great way to get that t-shirt you want that says exactly what you want it to say.   

[MichelleHW101]

I’m not a coffee drinker but I do like tea.  I guess I got that from my Grandma on my mom’s side and by Great-Grandma on my dad’s side because they were the only ones in the family that drank tea.  Everyone else is coffee drinkers except my younger brother and his wife, but they don’t drink tea either. 

[MichelleHW101]

I have a Samsung 5.1 CH 3D Blu-Ray Player (the HT-E6500W model).  I bought it back in 2012.  The problem is with the current updates Samsung released for this model it is slowly losing its ability to play regular DVD’s.  I got stuck having to go out and by a regular DVD Player because of this.  I say it’s slowly losing its ability to play regular DVD’s because when I stick in a regular disc I have to take it out and stick it in servral times before it actually will read it.  If the regular disc is an old one where it fills up the entire space slot on the dvd holder then it will read it no problem.  But the newer regular dvd’s like tv shows are a smaller size so it’s harder to find where to put the disc on the dvd holder for it to read.  I don’t have any problems with a Blu-Ray disc.  I just it the open button the holder comes out.  I put it on the holder hit close and it just reads it.  I think because it’s a 3d player the updates have to be geared more for reading the latest 3d model rather than reading the older regular discs. 

[MichelleHW101]

DeerPark water is ok but if I have to drink water I really prefer Aquafina. I just don’t like their plastic bottles.  I believe in recycling.  I think it’s great for the environment and all but ever since they switched to 50% less plastic the bottles have been awful.  I’ve had them leak if I drop them.  I’ve had the labels fall off.  Some bottles are even as squishy as the water inside them.  In all honesty I don’t think the company made the bottles to be more Eco-Friendly like they claim.  I think they did it because using less plastic to make the bottles is cheaper.   

[MichelleHW101]

Hate windows 10.  I used to have Windows 7 which I liked, not as much as Windows XP but it was the next best operating system.  On 7 when I lost the internet connection all I had to do was click on the internet signal in the taskbar then click on troubleshoot then click detect error and it would reset the computer’s internal wireless router which then allowed the computer to pick up the signal from the wireless router.  In Windows 10 all troubleshoot/detect error did was tell me to close my wireless router and turn it back on again.  The thing is I knew there was nothing wrong with my wireless router because while waiting for the computer to start I was on the internet from my Ipod (which only connects to the internet from the wireless router).  I had to waste time trying to figure out why it couldn’t connect to my network.  After typing my network password TWICE it miraculously logged on.  So a job that, under Windows 7 would have taken less than 3mins. took over 20mins.  I should start billing Microsoft for all the aggravation/stress their product has caused me.           

[MichelleHW101]

Can’t believe what a family friend told me.  He said he took out a barrel of Legos for his grand-kids, dumped them on the floor and told them to just play.  They told him, “We can’t play with those, they have no instructions.”  I’m thinking, “Legos aren’t supposed to have instructions.  They’re supposed to have pictures on the box to show you what you can build with the pieces inside but not that you were limited to just those.  That’s why I love the Lego Movie.  It totally plays on that concept of instructions verses imagination.

[MichelleHW101]

Got my first Selfie Stick for Christmas.  It’s just a simple little one that holds any sized phone.  Can’t wait to try it out.  It’s about 8inches in height that extends to about 24inches and has a nice soft pink handle and a flat bottom so it can be used as a monopod as well.

[MichelleHW101]

My maternal grandma was Italian and though she’s been dead these past four years now I honor her by eating Italian on Christmas Day.