Thank you for the kind words, everyone. I am trying to push through this but just can't. I feel terrible and cannot believe that my sister is gone. Black Friday is almost here. DD and I usually have breakfast around 6:30 a.m. and then go to the mall. She is really looking forward to going and is excited about the holidays. I do not want to go. I don't feel like doing anything. I'll go because DD wants to, but sleeping sounds so much better.
I've only used two products - a big tub of cheap face cream that someone on a blog recommended. I did not like it and demoted it to my body. I also finished a bottle of jojoba oil. I might repurchase this but have other things to finish first. I am going to come up with a plan for 2016. Not sure what it will be, yet, but I know for certain that I will not buy any eye shadows. I am working on panning a few eye shadows and doing really well on one color. It will be done by early next year.
Belk is the only store that has sent me Black Friday beauty ads that look mildly interesting (Kiehls and Origins), but they are not interesting enough to get me to the mall at 6 p.m. on Thanksgiving. Plus, I am on a strict budget.
My MIL sent two more boxes of knick knacks. When I opened the boxes, I found that only three wooden dolls were intact. Everything else was broken. Some things were so damaged that I couldn't tell what they were. The only thing that was repairable was this big white dog. It is nearly two feet tall. One of the legs broke off. When I was examining it, I found that the tail had broken off at some point and was glued back on. My MIL wants me to make a claim with the PO, but I cannot determine the value of the dog or the other things. There are similar dogs on eBay that are worth a lot, but they have signatures. This dog has a Made in Japan sticker on the bottom, so it is probably a copy. Also, the tail was already broken. If it was worth anything, the broken tail took care of that. My husband wants to glue the leg back on and display it. My MIL wants me to put the dog on one side of our television and the girl she sent us earlier on the other side. Sigh.
BTW, just bee, we have a 42" Toshiba television. It is about five years old, and we have had no problems with it. I agree that it will be cheaper to buy a new television than have yours repaired. That reminds me of when I was a kid, we had one of those heavy consoles. Whenever there was a problem with it, my mother called our repairman to fix it. His name was Mr. Krafsner (sp?). He was such a nice man. One time, I noticed he had numbers tatooed on his arm. My mother told me that he and his wife were held in concentration camps during WWII. I just cannot imagine how horrible that must have been. One more BTW, we still have a big 19" TV in our garage that is so heavy my husband can barely lift it and a 13" portable TV. Both work.
Now that we are a three car family, we have had to come up with a parking strategy so we are not having to move one car out of the way of another. It works well except when we are not in our normal routine. The other day, my husband was leaving for the airport later than usual. After taking DD to school, I parked at the end of the driveway to give him enough room to leave. When he was about to back out, I told him that he had plenty of room to swing around my car. He got in his car, put it in reverse, pressed the accelerator pedal, and hit my car! I screamed STOP, but it was too late. He pulled forward and got out of his car. I asked him why he did that, and he couldn't answer. He said that he did not see my car (which is larger than his). I asked why, and he said that he never looks behind him when backing out of the driveway!!!! My car was not damaged, but my husband's bumper now has a big crack in it. Our deductible is $1,000, so we will have to pay for this ourselves.
In addition to the bumper, Christmas, and the other sudden expenses, my husband has to have a CAT scan and MRI because his PSAs are up and down. He has already had a biopsy which came back normal, but his doctor says he is too young to be having trouble with his PSAs and wants to be cautious. I have looked at our budget and think we can handle everything without dipping into our savings (or maybe just a little) if I spread out our expenses. So I told hubs that his bumper will have to wait until January, maybe February. He wasn't happy, but his bumper still works. All of this should keep my buying to a need only basis.
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