Wednesday, December 6, 2017
Good morning crew,
Technically there are 18 shopping days left before Christmas. So far I have bought one gift and the stress of that caused my to chew every last one of my fingernails all the way down to the third knuckle. I'm never gonna make it.
At least not without some fresh fingers.
Laugh it up,
Joe
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