listy list

Its been a hectic week (read: month) at our house, so you get a bullet list :)

• I'm already thinking about Christmas, I shouldn't be I want to just enjoy this fall but I can't help it.. we already have 2 family gatherings on the calendar and I am still wondering where to put up our tree. We've put one up 2 of the 3 years we've been at this house and I still don't feel like i have a good place for it. We skipped it one year since we wouldn't be here at Christmas.
•  I want to make my life easier at Christmas so I'm really thinking no Christmas cards this year (I may change my mind, not sure).
• We sent the kids in our lives some little Halloween cards I picked up at Target (hello impulse buy!) and I really want to know if they got them, I don't want to ask since they are a surprise to almost everyone we sent them to. I say 'almost' because I had to ask mom-in-law for an address and told her what I was up to, so niece and nephew's are a surprise to them but not to their daddy. One card is there the other isn't, come on post office! 
• I am getting excited about my birthday, and as K says ...I WILL celebrate all week!!! 
• K is a grading machine this week, he gave all 3 classes midterms and so has been grading them all week, and breaking up the work with his new kindle....the paper white is very nice, makes my old-style kindle look older than it is.....