I iced my leg and was able to walk around doing the usual night time shut down. Hopefully whatever it was is gone now.

My hope is to get up early and be at the post office at 7am when they open. I have 3 packages to get out. Then I need to finish Christmas cards and get them in the mail too.

Ugh. Damn near every other district in the county has cancelled school tomorrow. Not ours. Dangit.

My dad wants a wall clock and shirt from Sear's. My mom wants a Cephalon 4 qt. saucepan, and I have her stocking; she's a makeup whore, so a bunch of Smashbox, Yes to Carrots face care and sugar-free candies will be hers.

My little sis wants money to go towards a Kinexts. I'd like to get D a new iPod, but I can't afford that, so I think a collection of items from ThinkGeek will be his. I might have to have my mom buy them, and ship them to a girlfriend's house, so he won't see the charge and the box. Hmm.

If I'm doing that, I should do it this week, because of shipping.

His folks are a little harder, but I think I might get them a nice bottle of wine and some local BBQ sauce they like. His bro, we are rebuilding my old desktop, and getting a new keyboard.

His dad and stepmom, I have no freakin' clue. A digital frame is a good idea...except I don't know if they have a digicam or a computer. He may be on his own buying for them.

M is easy. Wii games, dinos and Star Wars!!

Eddie Bauer package arrived in MA yesterday and will be shipped to my folks place tomorrow...whew!

For presents I have to: get a book for my BiL, get jokey socks to go with nephew's cash (yes, he's 14 and I've resorted to cash!), get gift card for brother, get something for my SiL on behalf of my my mother, decide if I'm giving my sis the sweater I bought her or find out which e-book reader my BiL bought her and get GC for that. Oh, and buy something for myself on behalf of mother.

That list is longer than I like.

I have to return a package of the swimsuits I don't. Scared of the post office. I hope I can return it at work, but the box says Linda the Bra Lady all over it.

After positing strenuously that my boobs are bigger than hers, my sister wants to try on my pricey bras in case they fit and she can get some. Hmmph. Who's not so big now, huh?

(Note to Jilli, Cass, Trudy et al: thanks almost entirely to your evangelistic squeeing, Danger Days is now on the list.)

::one of us one of us::

I have finished my grading. Okay. I finished the electronic grading I have. PRAISE! I am getting another paper set tomorrow but I can be on top of it, right? Probably not, but oh well.

Aw, Ben just got home from his first rock concert! A friend's parents took them. Ben said there was much crowd-surfing and vibration and his "face was melted".

Baby's first show! I'm all verklempt.

::one of us one of us::

Hee. I checked it out on that official YouTube site Cass(?) linked to. I find it's not so differentiated in the middle, but Planetary!GO is bouncy fun, and I rather like what they're trying to do in Scarecrow. (And then there are the released singles of course, those are excellent.) So, it's on the list. Next time you get to one of their concerts, tell 'em they owe you a toaster.

Aww, baby rocker! (Err, Ben, I mean, not billytea, although I suppose it may apply in a more literal sense.) What band?
 
I am seriously zonkered right now. Busy day, but good one.
 
The chorale did a pretty good job with the Handel tonight and I`m glad the SO insisted I go. I enjoyed it, once the parent removed the child behind my chair who was cussing. The only hinky vocals were in the middle (sadly, my favorite air) where they used non-chorale-member students who were too old to be cute and not good enough to be good. But the rest was quite good and the tenor and the last soprano were exquisite.
 
Arts are why I wish I were a rich person who lived in the city. This is probably all I`ll get all year. But it was fun.