I Had a Great Christmas - Did You?

Did you survive Christmas? Did Santa Claus bring you what you wanted? Santa was quite generous for me, and I now have the next season of "Midsommer Murders" and "Maigret" on DVD. Since we were completely unable to watch "Maigret" because of technical issues with the feed, I'm delighted and can hardly wait to dive into it without the broadcasting issues we had been experiencing. 

We really liked what we were able to see of 
Maigret, but the feed was horrific, so we weren't 
really able to enjoy it. Now we have the DVD, 
so we'll have the fun of watching without the 
issues of the feed. 

Today starts our four-day END OF THE YEAR SALE. It's a huge sale, and we'll get a lot of people through. It goes Friday and Saturday this week, and Monday and Tuesday next week. We'll have Wednesday and Thursday off next week again, and that will be totally delightful (and absolutely necessary). I'm already looking forward to it, even though we'll have to attempt to print out our year-end reports and get the various State and Federal year-end forms filed. So even though we won't be open for sales, we'll still be at the shop for several hours. 

Today starts our Four-Day End of the Year Sale - our 
biggest sale of the year. I'm hoping we get the sales 
numbers, I think we will. 

Chickie gave the small watercolor painting she had purchased for her Mom to Claire yesterday and she adored it. Claire texted me that she wants the second one in the set, and she'll be in today to buy it. So, I'll reserve it for her. It is a set of two, and I'm pleased that she wants the second piece. Our year-end sale is the best sale we have, so she'll be getting a good price too. 

I was a bit disappointed in holiday cards this year. I received about half of the number that I usually get, and my mantle looks a bit sparse. Still, there are at least two overseas cards that I usually get that I know were sent and are probably somewhere between here and there - LOL. I don't pull the cards down until after the New Year, so there's still time for some holiday cheer. 

Both DH and Chickie gave me gift cards from Barnes & 
Noble - a guaranteed happy gift for me - the perennial 
bookworm. LOL 

Looking at my desk (which really needs a good year-end cleaning), I see that Santa was kind enough to give me $70 in Barnes & Noble gift cards, so I'll make sure to load those up on my account for the next e-books I want to get in the series I'm reading down. Getting books always makes me smile - it's one of my happy things. As I said above, DH hit it out of the park with the "Midsomer Murders" and "Maigret" DVD's. He also got me two sets of running shorts, and will buy me a new set of running shoes when we can get to the mall together. I desperately need a new pair - my current ones are falling apart. All in all, I'm calling it a successful Christmas. DH got lots of things that he wanted, and some things he didn't know he wanted, (but he actually did) - LOL

I hope you also had a lovely Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. I'm heading to the shop for what I hope will be a very busy first day of our "After Christmas Four-Day Sale". Enjoy your Friday and I'll be back tomorrow. Slava Ukraini.