There are a couple of things that I would like to come back. The first of them is my voice. You see, for the past 3 days I have been voiceless. Today I hauled my butt to the doctor for a little professional advice that did not include drink tea, suck on cough drops, and hope it comes back. The advice I got? It is a viral infection, suck cough drops, drink tea, and wait for it to go away and bring my voice back. Argh.

The other thing I want to come back is my dumpster. Yes, you read that right, my dumpster. You see, I had posted a couple weeks ago about my landlord having several of his buildings foreclosed on. Well, although it turned out that my building and the building next door to me were not part of it, the two buildings around the corner were a part of it. No big deal right?

It is when you consider that all four buildings shared a dumpster & 4 garbage cans from our local Waste Management location. As well as when you consider that the address the cans and dumpster were tied to were the addresses of the two buildings that were foreclosed on. The residents of those buildings have moved, you can tell they are empty, but that also means that my building and the building next door have no place to put our trash. None.

So now I have to call them tomorrow or go in to the office and kindly ask them precisely where I am supposed to dispose of my trash. Because I can clean up my apartment all I want, but if I can’t get rid of the garbage, it won’t do me any good. I want to get everything cleaned up, shined up, smelling fresh as a daisy.

I also want to get what I don’t need/want to keep out on my local Freecycle network so I can get rid of the stuff. I don’t need a bunch of stuff I won’t use hanging around and frankly, in my small apartment storage space is at a premium. I’ve already done something utterly silly that I didn’t need to do, but did anyways regarding buying more stuff.

You see, I purchased a pre-lit Christmas tree in 2006 so that I would have a Christmas tree to use as Yule tree. I dutifully put it up on Thanksgiving day that year. However, I did not have any ornaments for it and I did not have the money to purchase any ornaments for it. The same in 2007. In 2008, I didn’t even bother to put it up because I wasn’t at home enough to deal with it.

However, the other day, when I was obtaining pet food at Wal-Mart, I saw what I thought was a display of doggie sweaters. I wanted to get a new sweater for Panda so he doesn’t freeze after I shave him again in the next couple of weeks. Well, it wasn’t a dog sweater display. It was a people-shirt display. Christmas shirts. Then I noticed there was a gorgeous gold, quilted stocking that was clearanced – for 90 cents from $9.00! I couldn’t pass it up. then I discovered that boxes of shatterproof ornaments were down to 50 cents from $5.00, bows were down to 20 cents per package, bead garlands were down to 20 cents per garland, ornament hooks 10 cents per package, and fake-snow tree skirts were 30 cents each. So I bought some gold ball ornaments, gold bows, and gold bead garlands. This coming year I’ll purchase some blue & silver ornaments and bows and then deck my tree out in royal fashion. But honestly, I couldn’t pass up those deals, as we all know how expensive decorations can be.

I’ll pick up some gold tinsel-type garland at the dollar store this year to complement my mantel and other places in my apartment. I love to decorate for holidays.

Ok, I suppose I’ve rambled on enough about the things I’ve bought, the things I want to whine about, and all of that jazz. I sincerely hope you’ll forgive my endless rambling.

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