Two day countdown

I'm ready to get my 2 days of work in this week and be done with it all for a week. I have to do payroll today, as well as submit the monthly state business tax return. By tomorrow, before I'm off, I want to get done with everything October related and have the monthly financials to my boss. Yep! We have never been this caught up. That was my goal, to be able to close out the previous month before the end of the next month. Smart move getting sis on board!

The weather turned cold, but all the rain we've been having went away, so while it's cold enough to snow, now there's no moisture to fall.

Dh did get the lights put up on the shop. He decided to kill 2 birds with 1 stone and also clean the gutters while he was up on the ladder. I think today he plans to get the lights up on the house. Then the fence line another day. I did a bit upstairs. One guest bedroom I just put out some framed Christmas pictures (cut out from an old Christmas card and Christmas gift boxes) and a Christmas pillow case over the bear throw pillow. I also swap out brown blanket on the end of the bed for a red one. In the other room (this is the room dd and sil use when they come) I was going to put on the Christmas duvet and pillow cases, but it was really wrinkly, so I decided to wash and dry it to get the wrinkles out easily. Amos decided to start helping me in this room

It looks like some stores are having online early Black Friday sales today. I see Walmart has the Wrangler jeans dh wears for $13, so this is when I usually buy him 2 or 3, since it's a good price. But, I remember not too long ago when they'd put them for $10 on Black Friday. Our brain says, "well, it's only a $3 increase" but it's also a 30% increase, which sounds terrible, doesn't it?

I needed a couple gift ideas for dh (I already gave one to dd) and I got a couple yesterday while I was dusting and vacuuming his den. He really needs a new mousepad, so I'm getting him a personalized one and while dusting his shelves w/books, I remembered some books he said he wanted.