Holiday Cards Update and Happy Hanukkah to All

Happy Hanukkah to those friends who celebrate the feast of lights. Although I don't celebrate it, I do acknowledge it and remember lighting the menorah from days of my childhood. I remember playing with the dreidel, I remember foil-covered chocolate "gelt", and visiting my Tante Gerty and her family to share a meal. That side of the family is totally gone now - my cousin having died from a life-long illness during the Covid shut-down. It's said that as long as someone is remembered, they aren't truly dead. So today I remember my "aunt" and cousin, along with others who have passed. 

We're in the middle of celebrating the Feast of Lights now. It 
brings back fond memories of lighting the candles every 
night, of gold-colored foil covering dark chocolate "gelt", and 
of spinning the dreidel. We were more secular Jews than 
religious ones, so this holiday was right up our alley. 

I spent yesterday getting my holiday cards completed and ready to put into the mail. All of my international cards were mailed yesterday, and as soon as I triple-check my list for my domestics, my hand-made cards will be mailed. That's probably going to be today, Monday at the latest. That will leave the few commercial cards - the "make-up" cards; those cards that will fill in for the hand-made cards that I'm missing. If I stay on schedule, those will be mailed on Wednesday. It's been a true "Labor of Love" for all of you, and a lesson in how well I can roll with the punches for me - LOL. *sigh* 

I love making my holiday cards every year. This 
year's card tried to foil me at every step (rather like 
a reflection of how we're managing to close the 
store). Nonetheless, even with twists and turns 
in the road, they're either already mailed or will 
be within a few short days. 

I need to make a service appointment for my car - I'm almost two months late. But, given that it's December, I really don't have time to spare. I'll contact the service department of my dealership on Monday and try and make an appointment for early January. I also HAVE to get gas in the car. I'm quite sure I'm almost down to fumes. I wanted to get some yesterday, and it just didn't work out. It's mandatory for today, though. 

My "Tire Rotation" light on Minnion turned on yesterday 
while I was doing errands. I know I'm overdue for 
service - usually I'm there in November. but, I'll have to 
push this off until January. The warning, however, is taking 
over my screen so I watched a quick You Tube video on 
how to clear it off the screen. Of course, the video was 
British, thus the British spelling of "tire". I'll phone the 
dealer on Monday and set up an appointment for January. 

So that's all that's exciting in my life right now. DH is busy repricing our gold-filled and 24 Kt gold findings at the shop. We don't sell a lot of those, but they do need to be accurate in price. We always make an adjustment based on the daily market price of gold - it is a precious metal, after all. But the base price has to be accurate first, and that's his job. It's one of those parts of owning a shop that drives me a bit crazy. I'm really not much of a "numbers" person. On that note, I hope all of you have a lovely weekend. I'll be working tomorrow for the 2nd of our three open Sundays. Ick! LOL I'm already looking forward to my next "day off " on Wednesday. 

I'll be back on Monday. Slava Ukraini and חיים למען ישראל.