5 Things from This Week

In no particular order...

1. I was at the Dollar Tree yesterday and found these books in the photo above.  Usually the books I find there are titles I've never heard of by authors I've never heard of but these are some of my favorite authors!  For only $1.25 each, of course I scooped them up.  One of my goals for next year is less scrolling and more reading real books.
2. An FYI for people on the west coast who use the military's TriCare health insurance plan, there is a new contractor that you need to sign up with by the end of the year.  I wouldn't have even known about this except for the fact that I was looking at the base website for something else and saw the notice.  So I called and signed up and asked why I didn't receive any notification about this either by email or snail mail and the lady just said she didn't know why but many people have told her the same thing.  Really, customer service everywhere is awful these days!
3. Christmas is just around the corner.  We only send money to the kids and grandkids so gift giving has already been taken care of this year.  Hubby and I plan to have a very quiet, very small Christmas which sounds just perfect to me!
4. I don't understand the sociology of cats.  The mom cat and two of the kittens absolutely shun the third and smallest kitten.  They don't let him eat with them (he doesn't even try to approach the food until everyone else has eaten and left), and hubby made two piles of blankets on a rack for them and the littlest kitten is often left on one pile of blankets by himself while the others are in the other pile of blankets.  I would love to rescue him and take him inside but all of the kittens are scared to death of people.  :/
5. Saturday will be the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year.  I'm definitely looking forward to longer days of sunlight!