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Well, I wound up buying 3 Marie Osmond dolls...one is a large Christmas doll, and two are very small little dolls(need to go to very small dollies, am running out of room here), and bought another Christopher Radko Christmas ornament, which is a companion ornament to one of the dolls I bought tonite, so all toll, finished my shopping day, with 3 Marie Osmond dolls, and 3 Christopher Radko ornaments, so I am quite satisfied....

BigDom and I are collectors....of many and various things...I come by it naturally....my mom and my dad were giant collectors of many things, and they each had their special collections, that I have inherited...BigDom caught the collecting bug from me....he has his special collections...

Even Andy is a collector of things, tho on a much smaller scale, so far anyway...but hes young, give him time, we will turn him into a true collector....

BigDom and I figure it this way....we pay the bills, save a certain amount, and the rest is for taking trips, and our collections...and we have a buffer...BigDoms National Guard retirement checks will start up in April...since we are not used to having it anyway, it will just go into a special account and accumulate for two years, without our ever touching it...then when BigDom retires in 2yrs and some odd months all those retirement checks will have accumulated and with interest, will be a nice little amount...added to what we have already saved, and BigDoms Thrift savings from the post office, plus our other retirements, we should be just fine...

So there will indeed be enough gas money to visit one and all, when the time comes...

One of these days, I will talk about our collections, and my parents collections and Andys collections....

We just seem to have collecting in our blood...