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Dear Santee (regular)
A few nights ago, I was on my way to pick up a friend from school & was running a bit late. I decided to make a quick stop for gas & was opening the back car door to retrieve my wallet from the back seat when something awful happened! Well, I didn't notice the huge metal pole next to the car door (in my defense, I was in a hurry & it was dark) so when I flung open the back car door my middle finger got slammed hard in between the pole and outer edge of the door. Needless to say, my finger now looks like a mangled sausage. It's swollen, bruised, & UGLY! 


Anyhow, I wanted both my nails & regular Santees to know this, so that they don't get offended when they receive their poorly wrapped presents. I did try my best to make everything presentable. I also wanted to type out a list explaining why I chose each item, but typing for a long period of time is painful too. :'( I managed to finish up one list (nails) yesterday morning, & will do the other (regular) tonight - But I'll have to keep it short. Sorry, Santees I hope you understand.
Sorry to hear that, hope your are feeling better. I am sure your girls will understand and appreciate you still wrapping their gifts.

 
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I'm so glad I posted about this instead of just sucking it up and paying them! Thanks ladies! I vaguely remember when I got the car that I had special wheels and tires as part of the special package for diesel Jettas and I forgot that.
I also had this happen (hit pothole and bent rim) The dealer quoted me like $400 for the rim alone, not including the tire or labor.  you can always look on cragslist  or ebay for the rim and save some money that way.  I got super lucky (I had bought my tires at Costco and the tire was covered under the road hazard thing) and one of the Costco workers had just put new rims on his car that was same make and model as mine and sold me one for like $70 plus he put it on and did the tire too!

Back to SS talk, I need to finish my home made gift so I can mail on Saturday.  My procrastination skills are strong though so we shall see!

 
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Okay...I need help. Is this too over the top for wrapping? I just like to make things purdy
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But, I'm pretty sure my SS is one who will "tear" into her gifts, lol...
If you went overboard in wrapping, then I definitely did too.
I still have one more package coming become I send it out. It includes 2 handmade items. Beautiful!

 
All of these beautiful packages going out, and I keep seeing more and more I want to buy. Haha!!! I just saw the Stila In The Garden Palette marked down to $20 on sephora!! Can't... buy... for...myself... yet!!!! Of course sephora sent me that darn $20 off a $50 purchase today... 

 
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  I have done something similar to this except it was when I was helping to put together some scaffolding for re-painting the house. My dad and I were lowering one of the last pieces down and my thumb got caught in the hole where the other piece was supposed to click in. I think I was 12 years old at the time. The scaffolding squished my thumb. My thumb itself didn't look too terrible but my nail turned black and eventually fell off. It did grow back but the whole thing was a terrifying experience for my tween self.
Not my finger, but still a smoosh story.  Spoiler for the squeamish.

When I was a senior in high school, I lifted weights in the evenings (wow, *that* was a thing *I* did?  So bizarre!  Anyway…).  One night, I dropped a barbell on my foot.  It smashed my big toe -- and then the blood pooled under my toenail to the point where I could FEEL MY PULSE IN MY TOE.  I could barely stand up long enough to hobble to the bathroom and back.  It wasn't an emergency room kind of thing, and I couldn't get a doctor's appointment until late afternoon, but because of the pain, I stayed home with my foot propped up watching tv until my mom could take me to the doctor so she could DRILL A HOLE IN MY TOENAIL to drain the blood and relieve the pressure.  And then I had to soak my toe in hydrogen peroxide for something like fifteen minutes three times a day for a week or two so the blood could continue to drain and not cause any problems.   And then five years later, a few weeks after I graduated from college, I got chunks of wood stuck in my foot between my big toe and the one next to it, but that's a whole 'nother story that involved weekly trips to the podiatrist to try to dig it all out for about two months followed by full-out surgery the following winter.  And hydrocodone.  Lots of hydrocodone.
These two incidents are probably why I have a very high tolerance for my own open wounds.  Digging out splinters and ingrown hairs with only tweezers and a straight pin?  Better grab something to mop up the blood.  Sometimes, those suckers are *deep*.

Ouch! you are definitely brave.

 
Hey ss- You can keep adding presents to my gift for as long as you want. Lol =p Damnit- WHO ARE YOU SS??!!? I neeeeeeeeddd to knowwwwwww. Lol. God I'm like a 5 yr old.

 
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  Am I the only one who is going to want to send my SS a gift after I get hers?
Definitely not!

 
Yea seemed excessive to me too. It's a VW Jetta so not that different than your beetle. Going to take boyfriend to some of the discount places with me. I don't really care if I have "Volkswagen" wheels. Thanks for the input!
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Seriously get your stuff anywhere but the Dealer. I have a Mini Cooper S - I got tires at the dealer the first time ... A staggering $1600 for the Run Flat High Performance set they insisted were required. When it was time to get new tires, I asked my new non-dealer mini only service guy and he told me to lose the high performance run flat and go with regular tires - price diff? $800.00 for high performance tires that are good for 50K miles and a much quieter ride. After market I have found is better.
 
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Santee,
Your package is ready to go out tomorrow. If I can finish the letter to you.
I have a feeling my box will look like yours going out. This looks amazingly beautiful. I'd be thrilled to see this opening a box. 

 
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I'm so glad I posted about this instead of just sucking it up and paying them! Thanks ladies! I vaguely remember when I got the car that I had special wheels and tires as part of the special package for diesel Jettas and I forgot that.

Depending on the size of your wheel rims, you could be getting quoted higher than average prices. Average car rims are between 14 and 16 inches in diameter, I believe. I know I have to pay a bit more when I replace my tires for a 17" rim wheel, and I once had a coworker who had a very painful bill for fixing his wrecked 18" rim. I do agree that you should shop around for tires and not rely on the dealer. If you have a master haggler in your playbook, ask them to come along to help you out. 

 
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Getting so antsy to mail- but I can't as I'm still waiting on goodies.


And can I just vent a little? I was born and raised in tx and literally never dealt with snow- not real snow (one time it sorta...powdered and stuck for like, ten minutes!). I'm in Utah now- and there is easily a foot of snow that happened in like, 4 hours. My minivan of doom can't get up my driveway! I'm pretty sure I can't get my daughter from her bus stop (beginning of our "community"- so a little bit of a drive from the house) so I'm hoping my husband can drive all the way up here in the 4-wheel-drive and get her ...and then go back to work. Lame.
Also- and I get it and don't blame them at all- but FedEx and ups can't come up here because of the stupid snow so they are leaving my stuff (and my santees stuff!) somewhere down the mountain. I certainly hope I find it/it's ok/I can dig my van out of the snow to actually go get it soon. Ugh.
In summary, kcuf snow!

I grew up near Rochester, NY, and had a long driveway on a hill.  So while we weren't on a mountain, we would frequently get stuck on the top, and have to slog up and down half a mile of 4 foot drifts to get to the school bus. My dad had a plow attached to his truck, but we typically had to be on the bus (country!) to get to school before he'd plowed for the day. Once it was soo deep/dense, that the truck got stuck and the snow actually dented the quarter panels in from the pressure.   This was pre-cell phone days, but he was not amused to have to holler from the back window for us to come out and hand-dig him out.   

:) /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />  On the other hand, the positive side is you can make AWESOME snowmen :) /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" /> An entire legion of them, even. :) /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

 
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My life. Sans child. I realize I sound crazy when I tell my boyfriend about my "make up talk friends". Quote: Originally Posted by tweakabell /img/forum/go_quote.gif


Lol sounds like me telling the hubby about the MUT girls.

 
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  All of these beautiful packages going out, and I keep seeing more and more I want to buy. Haha!!! I just saw the Stila In The Garden Palette marked down to $20 on sephora!! Can't... buy... for...myself... yet!!!! Of course sephora sent me that darn $20 off a $50 purchase today... 
I know, I'm trying to be so good.  Ulta has the Stila Blockbuster starry night pallet still on sale for 19 bucks and I waaaaants it.  

 
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I figured I would treat my Santee like a member of the family and wrap the gifts accordingly (badly, sorry!) in a combination of pretty wrapping paper and fun stuff. If I got a present wrapped in Cars wrapping paper my toddler would steal it for himself, haha. That would be hilarious. 

Oh, and I'm glad I'm not alone in wanting to do something nice for my SS es when this is over. I feel like we will all start the stalking process all over again!

Lol. I feel like we all never want this Secret Santa process to end and we will continue the stalking and buying gifts for each other for any or no reason at all. It's all good. We just all love each other. This really has been super fun
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Yeah I have been running into that. I've gotten the strangest looks from people when talking about the secret Santa.
ummm yeah. I haven't even mentioned it to people I work with, they'd jus think I was nuts. I did tell my younger brother about it at Thanksgiving because he just got back from traveling Germany, Finland and the United Kingdom and brought me back a ton of European cosmetic goodies!!! I was so excited, I was like omg all the girls on MUT would love all of this stuff!!! He understood and thought it was such a cool thing that strangers want to get each other gifts. Luckily everyone has been understanding that I have told about SS, the hubby even came with me gift shopping. Now I am just nervous about my SS liking her gift, the 2 year old wrapping job I did  & I feel bad  I didn't make anything homemade.

 
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  Luckily everyone has been understanding that I have told about SS, the hubby even came with me gift shopping. Now I am just nervous about my SS liking her gift, the 2 year old wrapping job I did  & I feel bad  I didn't make anything homemade.
I've been pretty lucky, my husband understands because quite honestly I do this all the time - buying presents for total strangers. Some days when we are out shopping I would mention to my hubby that oh this person would like this and tell him it was a "regular" that I started to know so well and he would say go for it. In fact he does it too! :) /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" /> 

 
@JC327 don't feel bad; I have nothing that is homemade. I am not that crafty to give as a gift. I wish I had time to bake some homemade goodies but my schedule is kind of crazy and when I get home I am too tired. Things will go back to normal in a couple of weeks. I am sure your santee will love their gift.

 
@JC327 don't feel bad; I have nothing that is homemade. I am not that crafty to give as a gift. I wish I had time to bake some homemade goodies but my schedule is kind of crazy and when I get home I am too tired. Things will go back to normal in a couple of weeks. I am sure your santee will love their gift.
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I am in the same boat. Nothing homemade but my santee loved her gifts. I'm sure yours will too!!
 
Luckily everyone has been understanding that I have told about SS, the hubby even came with me gift shopping. Now I am just nervous about my SS liking her gift, the 2 year old wrapping job I did  & I feel bad  I didn't make anything homemade.
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I'm not making anything homemade. It's just not my forte, I'm not crafty at all. And I have zero time for that with working like a mad women lately. I didn't even do crafty stuff for my wedding last year, it's not my thing. So in advance, I'm sorry Secret Santee but your not getting any homemade items from this girl. But I think you'll appreciate that because my attempt would be awful. Lol
 


Afghanyland boxes. Not pictured is a leatherman multitool and mini ratcheting socket set. Most of it is just tools and stuff they asked for. I tried to throw in a few fun surprises for them. I'd really like to send them more but while hubby makes good money I really can't afford to send more than 5 boxes.

 
I was going to make my santee a mini stuffed squid but she didn't seem the type so I sent her pretty jewelry instead. It's ok life is getting away from me anyway. I swear Dec. is on FF.

 

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