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I have this huge long to do list today...running here and there - shopping, picking up orders & the like

and instead I am stuck at home waiting for a phone call from my vet. One of the dogs threw up some time during the night(I suspect it was Pandora, although I don't know for sure...)

I wouldn't even give it a second thought ... except that I'm going in for surgery next week and if the dog is going to vomit... then I ain't gonna be here to clean it up. and I won't be around to take whichever into the vet if it starts to get worse.

*damn*

At least I know she will call. Eventually. before 1 pm usually as she only works mornings.

my village

I confess, I am a Christmas village addict.

I started the whole village thing so that people would have something to buy me for Christmas. Apparently some people think I am difficult to buy for - I tried to get them to stop giving me gifts but that exploded in my face. Somehow this minor interest has spiraled out of control.

My village isn't that big really, but it now takes up two tables. I had J build me another table this year because I wanted to put the train set out. I am desperately lusting for this pizza shop to add to my village and if I don't get it - I think I will be heartbroken. The only thing worse of course would be to get two pizza shops. *sigh*

I'm planning to build a mountain/tunnel for this new table so that my train can disappear into/through it and add some height to my village, a little topographical element. I think I may also paint some road/pond elements on it, or just make some removable snow banks etc. I'm also envisioning a third table for the corner and maybe an extension on this one. Hell might as well use my dining room for something. I could kick myself for buying dining room furniture. Somedays I really wish it was still completely empty.

I went out to do some shopping yest and found that someone has barn pieces/country houses for sale. One of the barns even has horses....

I try to keep it under control though. I don't buy pieces for myself. as much as I'd like to and I try to keep it to 2-3 pieces a year. Which means that I tell my DH, my MIL and my mother which items I am looking at - so that if one of my sibs comes to her and says... I don't know what to get -leaf- she can say... oh... she wants -this-. I try to tell them a different piece each so that I don't end up with more than one. The thing I like best about 'the village' is the price range. You can buy the cheapest items at a dollar store, lots of items in the under $20 range and really the sky is the limit if you really want to splurge.

Yes - I set up my village already, early I know but... I figure anything I don't do now - isn't going to get done. I am NOT setting up the tree this year because I plan to be in bed sleeping for the last week of November, first of December. If I feel fantabulous, post surgery, I may change my mind, but I doubt it.