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Nana’s Angels

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If you remember in my earlier post about my nana’s angels I had decided to start my own collection. Because I am 33 years behind I anticipated on taking about two years to collect them. Not only that some of them cost upwards of $200 each. Ebay is how I was going to get them and how I had gotten the few that I already had. On Christmas Eve the first gift I opened from my mom was one of the angels. She knew I wanted to start collecting them so I didn’t think much of it. The second one was as well. Then I opened a box that had about eight angels in it. Then it dawned on me and I started to cry. My mom wasn’t with us on Christmas Eve this year. She was in Florida helping take care of my Pepe this being the first Christmas without my Nana.

My mom got me the entire 33 years of the angels. Every one. She spent hours and hours on ebay and now I learn she was bidding against me at times to win some of the angels to be able to give them to me as a gift. The only one I am missing is 2006 which is VERY hard to come by is it was their 30 year anniversary but my mom has found one since she has been in Florida and will be bringing it home to me to complete my set! ***great big smiles***

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I’m not the only one. My sister heard of my idea and decided to get one of my Nana’s angels for each of the years that her kids were born…just six, knowing that collecting all 33 would be too expensive. So, she got onto ebay in the past few weeks and got her six. Just her way of having a little piece of Nana’s angels I guess. My mom did the same for her as well. All 33.

My brother’s wife as well. My baby brother’s fiance’ too.

Thank you, mother for the best gift I have ever received. I love you for it.

Adam’s shirts

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Adam asked for shirts for Christmas. Plain jane t-shirts that he can wear to work. Actually, no I can’t say that. He asked for funny computer shirts if I could find some so that is what I passed on to my mom. These are what she got him. The last one was more of a joke than anything because of our NEVER ENDING GOSH-FORSAKEN HOUSE!!!!!!!! (by the way he has been trying to explain the third one to me since Christmas Eve and I still don’t get it).

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An Irony of all Ironies

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Santa brought my nieces both tool sets~one is in college and the other will be going. As us girls were looking at the tools Christmas day my niece tried to open hers and this is what we found:

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Note the two black screws that you have to unscrew to even remove the packaging to get into the tool kit. Just plain mean, it is. A man obviously made this kit. Way to start a young girl off wrong. She has to find someone with a screwdriver, like her dad or brother to help her unscrew the cover on her toolkit so she can even get into the thing. I mean come on! We did pretty good, us girls that is. We knew the name of everything except the allen wrenches (we’ll have to remember that next time).

I’ll take one cow with that

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True. Story. Just happened after I finished seeing a farmer patient of mine, whom by the way drove to the clinic in a tractor. (to set the scene up there is the patient, me and Bonnie who is our office manager)

Patient: Doc-do you want a quarter of a cow?

Me: Sure

Patient: Ok, just go on down to the locker to pick it up

Me: Pella’s locker?

Patient: Yep.

Bonnie (whispering): Shana, tell him what quarter you want

Me (whispering to Bonnie): Well, which do I want?

Bonnie (whispering): the rear

Me: Can I have the rear quarter of the cow?

Patient: Sure can, just go down and get it and then we’ll bill ya’, that’s the bad part.

Me: Ok, Thanks…Merry Christmas

——————walking away—————————-

Me: Wait a minute….how big is this quarter of a cow?

Patient: Pretty big, why?

Me: Will it fit in my freezer?

Patient: No, you rent a locker.

Me: I don’t want to do that…can I get an 1/8 of a cow?

Patient: No, just find some friends to share it with.

Me: No, seriously I don’t want to rent a locker. What about a 1/16 of a cow.

Patient: Well, they are corn-fed so they aren’t that big I guess. Maybe you could give some to your family for Christmas. They’d love it for gifts.

*****needless to say this carried on for a good 10 minutes in the waiting room in front of other patients all of which were giggling. Only in rural Nebraska do you come to your doctor and try to sell a cow. It was great. Gotta love it here!!!

Things I THINK should be sold in pairs…

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socks. shoes. earrings. mittens. chop-sticks. skis. knee-pads. leg-warmers…..CURTAINS!!!!!!!

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For pete’s sake. My in-laws got us the beautiful curtains for our living and sitting rooms for Christmas that I picked out. Here we are tonite all excited to finally put these fancy schmancy double rod thingys up for these double type curtains and each package only has one panel. ONE. Yes, I am aware that it says PANEL, as in the singular sense. I see that nice and clearly now. Adam cannot fathom how I didn’t notice it before. I suppose I just assumed curtains fell into the things sold as a “pair” grouping.

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Adam says nooooo, JCPenney’s curtains are just so fancy that they have to sell them separately in case fancy people want an odd number of panels. Whatever that means.