blah day

Today has been such a ho-hum, blah sort of day. The hubby has a nasty cold and isn't feeling up to doing much. So we've vegged all day. Of course, being the mom, vegging for me included 4 or 5 loads of laundry. Where does it come from??? And working on a Christmas calendar and wrapping some things. I finished and wrapped a calendar and a photo of the Boo that we had made over the summer.

I also wrapped a white elephant gift for Boo's church party tomorrow night. Last year she took some of those controllers that you plug into the tv directly and then play video games. Since she's got a DS and we've got a Wii, those old games were collecting dust. It was one of those gifts that everybody fought over. It was her first white elephant exchange and she got a kick out of it. So how do you top that?? That's been the dilemma. So we scrounged around the house for something 'fun' yet pretty useless at the same time and decided on this little pop gun thing she's got that shoots out foam 'bullets' with little plastic nubs on the end of 'em. Since it's multiple pieces and it's bound to get passed around, I wrapped everything in a large, clear baggie and tied it together with curly ribbon and a tag...and placed that in a box and wrapped it. I printed out a little tag that says "Don't shoot your eye out!" which we all think is funny since we watch A Christmas Story evvvvvery year, multiple times since there is an annual marathon on one of the cable channels. It's sort of an icon, so I hope the phrase doesn't draw stares. WE think it's funny. We'll see.

While I did all my work today, the Travel Channel was running several shows on going to Disney World/Land over Christmas. It was fun to see things on TV that we just saw 'in real life'...the very photos I was scrapping on calendars while I was watching. It made us smile on a blah day that didn't have very much going for it.