Payroll and presents

Just when I thought I was finally going to be able to submit our payroll with no issues/questions. Nope. Everyone was showing 75 hours and it's an 80 hour pay period. Some problem with how the payroll company set up our Holiday hours/schedule. Always something. I usually think first "Oh, I must have done something wrong", but it usually turns out to be some problem on their end, that half the time they can never seem to explain how/why it happened. I miss our old company. This one costs us more and we have to do so much more of all the payroll and HR process/data entry/set up, ourselves. We close 3 hours early on Wednesday, so that day is supposed to be 3 hours Holiday and 5 hours Regular. It was missing the 5 Regular hours. And the stupid part, is that all but 6 people are salary, so it really doesn't matter. But apparently the hours still have to be tracked as to what type they are, even if in the end we all get paid our regular salary. Usually I'm done with payroll by noon.....I finally got it transmitted at 5pm. Seriously reminds me of over 20 years ago, when I did payroll for a very large company (600 employees) and we used this same company......it was always a stressful day trying to get payroll submitted (and it was weekly at that company, ugh!).

For son in law's Christmas present DD asked me to go in on a big gift she is getting him. I can't even remember what it is now. Something for their camper trailer and large in size. So, since they are coming here for Christmas and not to bring it here, she's just going to wrap the manual for it to give him. I also told her to give me a couple of smaller/low cost ideas that we can give him, for something to open, just from us. She suggested a magazine subscription and/or gift card to a restaurant he likes. I found a magazine subscription called Trailer Life she thinks he'd enjoy. It was like $19/yr on most websites. Then I found it on a magazine sales website for $12.99/yr. Then when I was placing my order and there was a spot for coupon code, I googled for codes and found one for 15% off that worked. Saved $1.95, LOL.  Still not exactly something he can unwrap, haha, but I'll just put a note about it in a little box and wrap it. I still need to get DD stuff.

That is the one and only Christmas gift I've bought so far. Yikes. I feel totally behind this year.  Over the weekend DH was saying it's so hard for him to get me stuff. If I tell him what I want, then of course that's what he gets me, so it's no surprise. If he orders something online, I end up seeing the charge and who it's to. Plus, he is just not a shopper. DD used to go with him and he'd do well picking out stuff. The first year we moved here, he went to visit his friend in TX for a week after Thanksgiving and had a bunch of cash with him. They totally went shopping and he brought a bunch of gifts home he picked out. The second year, he wrote me a bunch of different gift's on sticky notes. Last year, we didn't really do Christmas and bought a gift for ourselves (the metal art address sign). This year he doesn't know what to do. I only have a couple of ideas for him. I'm thinking we'll probably just pick out something for the both of us again. There's still tons of stuff we need for the house and yard.

I haven't called my mom yet this morning, to see how yesterday went. Still too early at her place. DD plans to spend all day Saturday with her. She is going to bring a small ham to bake in her oven, some mashed potatoes and rolls, so they can have a little "Thanksgiving" together. DD said she also invited DS to come over (he lives near my mom) and he said he would. So, that is nice to hear.