Well, we got our tree. It's perfect for our house -- tall & slim. It's in a new location this year and I think this might be the right place. The guys went out yesterday and spent $40 for this baby. My only peace over spending that much dough for a dead tree is (1) monies went toward a charity (2) another reason for that rather brand new chain saw -- I've got $40 worth of firewood sitting in my living room.

After spending all day yesterday cleaning, I'm now prepared to decorate the tree. That is, after number one son digs out the ornaments from the crawl space. Christmas cards were finished this morning and I even got some presents wrapped. O00h, doggie, I'm ahead of the ballgame already.

So, everybody is always asking -- what do you want for Christmas. Okay, here you go:

- ipod 80 Gig color: Black - Now, Philip says I don’t need this much hard drive space. This coming from a kid who has a hard drive on his Christmas list! How dare he under estimate the amount of music his mother has or could possibly want at her finger tips.

- IF Santa brings an ipod, I need a gizmo attachment that will frequency into my Jeep radio. Get it at the Apple store at Rivertown.

- A cleaning person.

- Of course I’m going to want to keep that new ipod looking pretty. Something maybe to protect it – a skin of some sort?

- What’s the quickest method to burn all my CD’s to that ipod?

- So, while we’re on the wonder of ipod, what about those real cool home stereo units you can set your ipod into so you’ve got an instant library of all your tunes - plugged in, ready to go?

--World peace.

- A GOOD, quality spring form pan to make cheesecake (Williams & Sonoma?). Mine gets rusty.

- That my kid studies and performs to his utmost potential. I know it’s in there somewhere.

- DVD’s – the old Thin Man movies with William Powell & Myrna Loy.

- More room in my house. Though I highly doubt I will receive this as a gift, I decided to add it to my list. After all, miracles have been known to happen at Christmas.

- Diamonds are a girl’s best friend. I’m still waiting…..

- Roller blades – shoe size is 8.5 Used blades would be a fine start for these (Play it Again Sports). After all, the ski boots disintegrated before our eyes from lack of use. By the way, you might want to include body padding too while you’re at it.

- China cabinet/side board to put in that extra room.

- New black leather jacket – slightly fitted, just below the waist – Medium.

- A few more hours in my day.

- A small toaster oven – notice this is way down on my list. I don’t need or want another appliance so our current, perfectly good, toaster would have to go. This little item was on my 2003 list and nobody bit.

- The family needs (1) State Park sticker. To Ed or me, doesn’t matter.

- More room in my house.

- Gift cards/certificates:
- --Quality Car Wash
- --Barnes & Noble (yeah, like the 4 foot high pile of books getting dusty next to the bed aren’t enough). Yes, but there’s always music.
- --Via Maria (restaurant – pricy, but good)
- --Boardwerks (restaurant)

- Last, but certainly not least, for the cold and snow to depart on December 26, followed by sunny days in the 80’s – low humidity.

- No-No’s: Clothes & froo-froo items. I’ve got enough of both, thank you.


So, how many spring form pans do you think I'll get?