Random Tuesday Thoughts - Snow, Bills, Tree, Vaseline, Volunteer Jobs, etc...

1.  It snowed last night and it is still snowing today here in Iowa.  Good times! or NOT.  I am not thrilled at all.  It will be my first time to drive in snow and from what I've heard, it is not pleasant.  Plus, snow in the midwest is serious!  Once it began, it could last until March, or even April.  Hubby's excited though.  He got a new snow blower, and he's been waiting to use it for a while now.  Oh well...

2.  Thank God for the adjustments in our dental bill.  We paid a huge amount of money for my son's dental works last week.  I didn't expect that it would be that costly to have extraction, sealing, and filling.  Even though, we have a dental insurance, it turned out that we still need to pay half of the total charge. Yesterday, the clinic called (after we left a message last Friday) and informed us that we will have a refund about half of what we paid last week.  It was good news indeed! 

Last week, I was already thinking of studying dentistry (heck, $200 for a 5-minute tooth extraction?).  I'm previously planning of pursuing my PhD in Science Ed (that is, if I will not get pregnant until next year and if I will stop to be this lazy---yeah, pressure!) but apparently, being a dentist is not so bad. Lol.

3.  We fnally have a Christmas tree! Yay! It is a Balsam Fir and we got it for $30 at the town square, sold by the Kiwanis Club.  I still have to add more ornaments though.  This year, I wanted to have a candy mint and snowman theme in our house.  So it's going to be lots of white and red. 

4.  Cold season equates to dry skin and lips.  My poor son has it.  It's improving with vaseline though.

5.  Cristina and I helped in the school's Parade of Trees activity last Saturday.  We baked goodies for the bake sale and served pies and drinks to the guests, at the same time watched and listened to the program and made goofy remarks like..what if we do interpretative dance while the performers sing mellow christmas songs? Or what if we sing with the guy who's playing the piano? Wouldn't that be insane? hehehe

6.  Tomorrow will be the Christmas exchange gifts of the ladies in our Bible Study group.  I wonder what to give. It has to be under $5 and we have choices of socks, kitchen towels, or mugs.  Planning to go to the outlet mall later today.

7.  The sun sets at about 4:30pm or earlier this winter. It's quite sad, I think. We should really plan a regular family indoor activity this season.

Well, that's all the randomness I got today...oh, plus, I tried, for the first time, roasting a whole chicken today for lunch! Crazy, huh?!