Jeff’s Session: Christmas Gifts

by Jeff on December 24, 2011

The following takes place on December 23rd
from 11pm to 12am
events take place in not so real time
Badum Badum . . . Badum Badum

Inside a Geek Squad van at the Best Buy parking lot. “ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH, stop doing that I am an American citizen. I told you everything. You cannot do this to me.”
Sneering at the store employee, “Stop your crying, Chucky. I know the target was here. I know he talked to you. And I am suppose to believe he was just here looking at video games and that is it.”
Chucky begged, “I swear that is all I know.”
The agent shook her head, “I would like to believe you, but we will have to make sure”

BARINnnnng. BARINnnnng. Female agent answers the phone, “This is Kristin.”

“Hello Kristin, it’s Chloe. We have located the target; he is preparing to move the packages”

“WHAT! Where is he?”

“Kristin, it looks like an super secret abandoned nuclear fallout shelter . . . ”

Bleep burp . . . “Sorry Kristin, this is Jack Bauer. I hate to interrupt. I am in the middle of this terrorist thingie in New York. I am going to need Chloe back. I am sorry Kristin; this is a higher priority the you finding out what you got for Christmas, Snoopy Snoop.”

“FINE, Whatever! Chloe, could you forward the screen to my friend Jenny?”

“Yes Kristin and good luck. I am forwarding the information. You should start by going to Union.”

Kristin hops out of the back of the van walks over to her grey Kia Sprectra and peels out of the Best Buy parking lot on her way to Union. Beep … Ber … Eeek … Bup … Ni … cluck … Eeek … Took … Eeek … Took BARINnnnng . . . BARINnnnng

“Hello, Jenny this is Kristin.”

“Kristin, it is very late”

“Jenny, I know it is late. The target is moving and I need you to run ops for me. I also need a clerk picked up with an interrogation package using the double doozie protocol.”

“Fine, I am looking at my screen. The target has just left the super secret abandoned nuclear fallout shelter in Union. Where are you? He just passed a Dunkin’ Donuts.”

“Dunkin’ Donuts, Clever man! There are some many of those in Connecticut if he keeps passing them we can never track him with drones. ”

“Wait, turn around, Kristin! I just saw you passing him at that other Dunkin’ Donuts, the one without the Drive Thru.”

“I am behind him. I don’t think he noticed I just turned really hard into the Dunkin Donuts with the drive thru and bought a coffee. I think my cover is still safe. However, I am several blocks behind him because I needed extra cream.”

“He is making a move past Foxwoods. Only twenty minutes before bingo starts. He is stopping and taking the packages into the Casino . . . Kristin I cannot make out the packages . . . it appears they are already wrapped”

“Darn, You need to run the credit cards and interrogate Matt. This is not over yet.”

Badum Badum . . . Badum Badum

NOTE FROM KRISTIN: Let me be clear that I was asleep while this alleged plot was taking place. This is what happens when my husband starts watching too much 24 on Netflix.

Jeff and I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy Hanukkah.

P.S. I’m not a Snoopy Snoop! It’s not my fault that someone used MY Amazon account to purchase presents for me. It’s not my fault that Amazon sends out emails that say “<The Name of Your Item> has been shipped” in the subject.

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It’s almost here! My schedule this week

by Kristin on December 19, 2011

With Christmas less than a week away, Jeff and I are both just a little tired. Hence, the lack of posts for about a week (so much for NaBloPoMo this month!). The last two weeks have been filed with Christmas parties and get togethers. I think we are pretty much past that part of the season. Now, on to what I call clean up week.

Generally, I take off the week between Christmas and New Years because I can catch up on a bunch of things I need to get done around the house before tax season starts. My birthday is also that week so I generally do something fun with Jeff. Before I get to that though, I need to make it through this week.

Today’s schedule includes running to school for an interview and attempting to get some grading done. Then I am running to a friend’s house to make Apple Pie Liqueur. I had some of this at a party a few weeks ago and it is amazing. It really does taste like apple pie. I’ll post the recipe. Tonight, I need to take a diagnostic GMAT exam so I can get my study plan together for the next month. More on that soon.

Tomorrow, I have to go to school for a class on a piece of software I am beta testing next semester (why do I sign up for these things?). Then, hopefully, I can finish my grading for the semester. Tomorrow night is my first meeting back on the Board of Education. Need to be there at 6:30. Those meetings can go really late so I don’t think I’ll get any studying in.

Wednesday, I need to make sure grades are done and posted. I also need to get some studying time in. Hopefully, by Wednesday the last of the Christmas gifts will have arrived and I can get wrapping finished. Did I mention that we still haven’t finished decorating the tree? We’ll have to fit that in somewhere, too. A bunch of the lights we had aren’t working so Jeff is off to get some today. Need to ship some things last minute as well.

Thursday, I’ll decide what Jeff and I are going to have for Christmas dinner and I will go shopping. I got a little hint about one of my presents thanks to Jeff using my Amazon account to do some of his shopping. Who knew that they sent out emails with the item name in the subject when the item is shipped? Oops! Therefore, I think we are having an Italian Christmas dinner. In the afternoon, I need to pick up my niece in Massachusetts and bring her to the train station in New Haven. I’ll do my shopping on the way home.

Friday is my final wrap up day. I have to make sure all the gifts are wrapped and ready to go for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. I also want to make some toffee for last minute gifts, plus I promised to get my recipe together for an old friend from high school. This will be the day I realize that I have forgotten to get a gift for someone and I’ll run around like a lunatic.

Saturday is family and friend day. We’ll drop off gifts and visit loved ones on Saturday morning, then to mom’s house in the afternoon and my aunt and uncle’s house for a big party in the evening. If we can make it through all that, Sunday will be a breeze.

Christmas Day is the easy day. When Jeff and I first got together, we ran around like lunatics on Christmas Day. Jeff’s parents gave us some excellent advice when we got married: start your own traditions now! So that’s what we did. We were so tired of running around to half a dozen places on Christmas Day so we decided that Christmas Eve we would do our running around and Christmas Day would be our day. We open up the house for visitors and always have tons of food but we don’t go anywhere. We have really enjoyed Christmas since we started this tradition and we will continue it this year as well.

I can’t wait for Christmas. How does your week look this week? What do you have planned? Are you ready for Christmas?

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