in my car that is!  I’ve gone through 2 winters with no heat in my Audi.  On Saturday I went over to my uncle’s house and we changed out the thermostat and replaced the valve cover gasket (oil has been leaking into the first spark plug area.

My car now heats up to the half way mark (which it hasn’t done in 2 years – it was running cold) AND when I’m driving I have heat – real heat – blowing out!  It doesn’t seem to stay hot when my car is idling but that’s fine with me.  I will finally not freeze on my drive to work.

Sunday was mostly a day for Christmas preparation.  Since Ryan had to work all weekend (he did not join me on Saturday), I spent the day Sunday doing all the Christmas shopping I don’t do online.  Unfortunately part of that shopping (for a Christmas tree stand) was not very successful.  Every place I went they were sold out.  Finally at the second home depot they had some plastic ones, however we soon found out that these stands are very low quality.  The screws are very hard to get in (one we couldn’t get in at all).  Finally however we got the tree standing up and filled it with water.  And then as soon as I moved the tree, all the water started pouring out the bottom!  The stand is completely defective!

So the tree is out on the porch now so it doesn’t pour water all over the floor.  I ordered a metal tree stand online (we have one but it’s too small for this tree).  Hopefully the tree will survive for a few days outside until the new stand comes.

No house work this weekend but we are just about ready for Christmas now (just waiting for some gifts to arrive in the mail to be wrapped, everything else is wrapped).  Our tree is not decorated (now we need to wait for the tree stand to arrive) but the house is as decorated as I could do with half of it demolished 🙂

Wreath I decorated.

And it’s back to work tomorrow,  hopefully not a busy week as i’d like to have some evenings home for a change 🙂