Dear Mother & Dad,
Hi! This morning was Wendy's B.R.A.T. Pack [Books, Reading & Talking] meeting at the library which ended a short while ago. She is talking with some of the other girls in the group so I thought this might be a good time to get a letter at least started to you! The B.R.A.T. Pack is putting on a Christmas play and puppet show so we had the final practice for the performances which will be next week. They were pretty disorganized but hopefully all will go off without too many hitches next week.
Hope you have recovered (if that was necessary) from your birthday Mother. I'm sure you're busy now preparing for the next holiday which will be here real soon. We are appreciating the nearness of Metrocenter when it comes to holiday shopping. In years past it has been a major journey just to get to a good sized shopping center. We have finished most of our shopping for Wendy, although I do plan to go to Pic 'n Save one more time to pick up soom small stocking stuffer type presents.
Last Monday and half of Tuesday I went with another gal from the library to Pagemaker training on the Macintosh. The Pagemaker is a special program on the computer that produces newsletter type documents. It is quite complicated (it was a 9 hour class and we just covered the basis!) It allows intermixture of text and graphics more so than the straight word processing program. I have been reading the want ads lately to see what a used Macintosh might cost to buy form a private party. To get one with much capability appears to be around $1500 to $2000 – there are some for around $700 but they don't have the disc storage that I would want. I figure I'm in no rush to get one but it's never too soon to see what's available! Someone told me that a few months after Christmas is often a good time to pick up a used one from someone who got one for Christmas but then can't figure out what to do with it other than sell it!
Wendy and I are both going to get our hair trimmed later this morning and then we'll meet Gerry at Metrocenter as he is working this morning. We put of our tree earlier this week. We bought a 7' artificial Scotch Pine which looks remarkably like a real one. The real ones are so much more expensive here than they were in the Northwest. So our living room at least is looking Christmasy. Several houses up and down the streets around us have outside lights and decorations. It seems like a larger percentage decorate here – perhaps they need to do that to make up for the lack of snow!!!
Well, it's about time for us to go so I will close.
Love,
Catherine, Gerry
& Wendy
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