{"id":12402,"date":"2025-12-23T03:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T08:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=12402"},"modified":"2025-12-23T03:39:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T08:39:43","slug":"tues-dec-23-2025-christmas-eve-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2025\/12\/23\/tues-dec-23-2025-christmas-eve-eve\/","title":{"rendered":"Tues. Dec. 23, 2025 &#8211; Christmas Eve, eve&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warm again, and supposed to be clear.  Might just end up that way too, if we&#8217;re lucky.   Yesterday was mostly nice, if a bit overcast.<\/p>\n<p>I spent most of the day alternating between errands, reading, and wrapping presents.  Two pickups, a doctor visit, a quick stop at the newly remodeled Goodwill Outlet, and home.  The Outlet is now a &#8220;Clearance Store&#8221; which only has clothes and shoes, and they are on sorted racks.  Oddly, since it&#8217;s all stuff that didn&#8217;t sell, I found an UnderArmor T shirt that is like new, and a pair of Allen Edmonds shoes.  $9 total.   I miss the treasure hunt, and all the other stuff at the Outlet (bins) store, but I did ok in a 15 minute visit.<\/p>\n<p>While the girls made cookies and  watched Die Hard, I wrapped presents.   I got everything for the kids and my  wife wrapped, except a sign that needs some paint touchup, and lava lamp bulbs that will arrive today.  I am still looking for the camera D1 wanted, but I&#8217;ll wrap that when I find it.   <\/p>\n<p>Plans to head to the BOL are in flux as D1 is working tonight.  I thought we had it nailed down but I guess not.   I am out of the loop and may just head up first some time today.  We&#8217;ll see.  <\/p>\n<p>The stacked gifts worked out perfectly.  I put some of D2&#8217;s gifts back in the stack for her birthday.  D1 will need some more shopping before then.  I had a lot more for W than I thought, which was nice.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, time is running out if you aren&#8217;t ready for Christmas.  Of course, I just realized that Hanukkah ended yesterday.  A day late and a dollar short, but Happy Hanukkah!<\/p>\n<p>Stack some things.   <\/p>\n<p>nick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warm again, and supposed to be clear.  Might just end up that way too, if we&#8217;re lucky.   Yesterday was mostly nice, if a bit overcast.<\/p>\n<p>I spent most of the day alternating between errands, reading, and wrapping presents.  Two pickups, a doctor visit, a quick stop at the newly remodeled Goodwill Outlet, and home.  The Outlet is now a &#8220;Clearance Store&#8221; which only has clothes and shoes, and they are on sorted racks.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2025\/12\/23\/tues-dec-23-2025-christmas-eve-eve\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Tues. Dec. 23, 2025 &#8211; Christmas Eve, eve&#8230; &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-decline-and-fall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12403,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12402\/revisions\/12403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}