Judecorp.

Tomorrow is Christmas Morning around here since we are flying out to visit the JenFam in the afternoon. My brother and SIL are here and we will all be doing gifts together. I had so much fun putting the gifts under the tree, assembling gifts, and filling stockings. So much fun! Punk went to sleep saying "Santa is going to come when I am sleeping and the presents will be under the tree!" She is so excited about Christmas this year. She put out cookies for Santa on a special plate we bought and I put the crown and shoes - the things she asked Santa for - on the plate. She has so much loot under the tree, it really is ridiculous since we said we were going light on presents this year. WHOOPS.

Tomorrow we open gifts, I bring my car in for service, we find time to pack for the trip, and take off. Happy holidays, friends. I hope each and every one of you receive everything your heart desires this week and into the New Year.

I can't freaking wait for tomorrow morning. It is more exciting than when *I* was the kid!

Friday afternoon, I got a visit from Former Coworker Funk and Former Coworker Krissie. Yay! It was super fun to see them and whenever I do, I feel like I still work there. They tell me all about my old clients and I can't believe I have been gone from that job for over nine months already. Probably because my UMass job made me so miserable.

Last night we went up to The People's Pint in Greenfield because we were going to meet Emily, Ruby and Kai there to watch Michael's band play. Michael's band plays up there quite a bit and Emily always goes (since they're married and all) even though Ruby is 3 weeks younger than Gus. She is always asking us to go and we always say no because they play late (9:30pm or so) and we're trying to give the girl a bedtime. But yesterday we decided to risk it and go.

We got there, ordered an appetizer and some homemade sodas, and by the time the band played one song, Kai was complaining of a headache and they were all going to leave. Sigh. We weren't going to stay without them, especially when we were worried about her being up so late, so we left. By the time we got home it was about 10:20 or so, then we fed the girl, and she didn't fall asleep until midnight. Oops.

On the upside, she slept until 7am. I'm not gonna lie, that felt nice. She ate, went back to sleep until 9:30, and then we packed her up and took her to church.

When I was pregnant, we went to the UU church in Northampton but the congregation was, umm, a lot older than we would like. This is the plague of UU churches - the one in Columbus was very similar and the ones we tried in Boston also seemed kind of old and lifeless. So this morning we decided to go to the UCC/Congregational church instead.

There were a LOT of young families there and a lot of little kids. And it's weird, having a baby with you makes everyone friendly. People just wanted to come up and introduce themselves and talk about how beautiful the baby is and on and on. Hey, I'm not going to complain when people want to tell me how cute my kid is!

Speaking of, she's 10 weeks old today! WOW. Friday is her 2-month check-up (a little late) and we have to decided which vaxes we want her to get. Ulp.

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Saturday morning I was supposed to bring my car in for maintenance. I even wrote it on the calendar. And umm... we didn't go. Whoops.

So I called the guy who hit me and told him there was more damage than I thought, and asked if he wanted to come see. He said no, he hit me, he didn't need to see. He said he would call his insurance company and file, and I said I would, too. He gave me more of his info (address, insurance policy #, license plate) and I called the insurance company.

Of course they asked if I had a police report and I said no, and they gave me a hassle about that. But I filed it and told them he hit me and all of that. They said that with no police report, they weren't sure about fault - that ticked me off because umm, I was totally stopped and all my damage is on the rear bumper. But whatever.

So I also found out that we apparently have rental car coverage on the Focus but not the Matrix. WTF? All I can imagine is that it was a mix-up but that could end up biting me in the ass if the repairs take a while. Grumble. And that apparently Jen is the primary policy holder so they wrote the claim as "owner not in vehicle." That kind of made me feel like a 16-year-old on Daddy's insurance.

Now I guess we just see what happens. Police won't issue a report because (duh) they weren't there. So take that, insurance phone answerer guy!

I was rear-ended on the way home.
No, not badly.
My brand new car has scratches on it.
I doubt it's enough damage to even fix.
But gah, can this stop now, please?