Home is where the heart is...

So I'm at the homestead in Falls Church, Virginia. This computer is weird and keeps asking me if I want to update AIM and Dell stuff and the keyboard is loud...

But it's good to be here. Mom and I went to TJ Maxx and I found SHOES! So now I have "Sunday" shoes--I'm still looking for day to day flats. (Oh, and I got a pair of New Balance walking shoes, too.)

We also stopped by her school and she showed me the rain gardens and special habitats. Ever heard of bio logs? They're filled with coconut shells (porous) and grass seed and you put them on stream banks to prevent erosion.

I dropped my dry cleaning at the $1.85/item place, woo hoo! (If we have one in Pittsburgh, I've yet to find it.)

I still have to wrap everyone's gifts. And I haven't officially gotten my dad's gift, but I'll make him a ''raincheck.'' (It's been a super busy season--you try to go to the chiropractor's three times a week AT CHRISTMAS!) I do have something to wrap for him, too, though, so it will be okay.

I think I'm ready for a nap!

Driving last night was wicked--thankfully all the yinzer's were going from DC to Pgh, so traffic wasn't bad, but rain was torrential and there were about 10 minutes of fog where I could not see at all! So I put on my hazards and drove at about 30 to 40 mph.

Oh, and gas down here--cheap! I saw $2.23 at one place. (In Pgh the best price is $2.35.)

Merry Christmas!!