Sunday Salon/Sunday Post - November 30, 2025: The One Where I Try to Ignore the Weather

What a glorious weekend. I have not left my house since Wednesday evening. We had a great dinner and visiting at my brother's house after I worked on Monday. Thursday was Thanksgiving at home (the kids went to the store for a few last minute items). Friday our son had a ride and went shopping at the mall with  a friend while our daughter visited friends. Yesterday the kids both had plans; daughter drove herself, and hubs played chauffer for our son and his friend. Today? My streak will be broken. Hubs and our daughter left for her college (and they're bringing two other students too), and our son has an appointment to get his hair done for the show he performs in later this week. He's really worried, but I think it will be less cutting, and more learning how to style it for his role as Albert Peterson in Bye Bye Birdie (which is set in the 1960s).

Today, I'm joining up wayyy later than usual with Caffeinated Reviewer and Readerbuzz for Sunday Salon and Sunday Post. Both their titles have to do with the weather. Mine is about 'not' the weather. Anything but the weather. [I hate the weather.]

What I'm reading this week:

I am currently reading my first holiday book for the HoHoHoReadathon, My Favorite Holidate, on my kindle, and a friend picked up Elyse Myers' That's a Great Question, I'd Love to Tell You at a conference and passed it on to me when she was finished - yay! So I started my print copy of that a couple days ago.

Three Good Things: 

1. Obviously, a FANTASTIC week with our daughter. It was so nice to mostly, just hang out. Most of her plans were with friends, and she came back to be here with us when that was not going on. And hubs and our son also got to spend the days when I was at work with her, so the three of them had those days too. 
   
2. I presented the family advent calendar to the kids last Sunday while we watched Home Alone. When our son got up to get a snack or drink, whatever, he found the doorway blocked by the Home Alone House LEGO set! I got it months ago for exactly this purpose, because my research at that time said it was the only LEGO set with 24 bags. Of course, we started early, so now I get to just go ahead and schedule a few days to skip, so we have it together for Christmas.
3. We got the Christmas tree up and decorated, and the Santa and Snowman inflatables set up in the yard! I promised to putter through the rest of the decoration boxes and either display more stuff, or move it back to the storage room downstairs while everyone else is gone today.

Three Goals for this week/month/whatever:

1. Sometimes, a goal is just a decision. My family is not doing holiday cards this year, but I feel like I should announce it, so people don't worry that I sent them to everyone else. LOL Hubs was unemployed for a few weeks after a month long medical leave, and there are just a billion other things I'd rather spend my budgeted time and money on.
2. While I did a GREAT job catching on some posts and, as I call it, computering, I still have one more book review to write for Books I Think You Should Read, and I thought of a couple more posts for my holiday wish list.
3. I am determined to enjoy today - drive our son to his hair appointment, and then to the supermarket to get a few items I need, and a few things that will make this evening fun, and this week a bit more tolerable at work. I am a capable adult, and I can do the things.