I don’t know if you guys have Aldi’s where you are. It’s a bit of a strange grocery store that originally came from Germany. They sell food but they also sell socks and weed whackers. It all depends what they can get. In many ways they remind me of the old Gemco on a much smaller scale. For you youngsters, you can Google Gemco. They’s long since gone out of business.
Anyway, they have some really cool stuff especially at the holidays. Lots of German chocolate and Father Christmas stuff, etc. Last year they had a Wine Advent Calendar that apparently sold out in minutes. It’s exactly what it sounds like, a wine for every day from December 01-24 (yes yes my sister has told me that is not the real “advent” blah blah). So they announced they’d have it again this year and release it on November 06th.
They also intended to have the usual chocolate ones, with some with chocolate from Germany, a Hot Wheels one, a cheese one and a beer one.
Another supermarket (Kroger) also announced they would have one this year and I had seen a similar box at Cost Plus World Market (don’t know if you have those either). The one they had was $100 and the one at Aldi was supposed to be $70. I almost bought the World Market one but didn’t.
So I go to the Aldi near me after work yesterday and…gone. Sold out. First day. No beer one, no wine one, no cheese one. I did get a chocolate one but those were going fast too. Sigh. I was very disappointed because it sounded fun to have 24 little bottles of wine to try.
Yesterday sucked. It was the one year anniversary of Crazy’s death.

I decided to apply for another credit card just to see if I could get it and was rejected. Couldn’t get my wine.
This morning I looked on the website for World Market and according to that they still had a 12 Bottles of Wine for Christmas and I could buy it online and pick it up at my local store. It was $59. I bought it. So after work I will attempt to pick it up. The cynical part of me expects to be told they lied and they don’t really have it in stock. In that case they will be forced to refund me. So we shall see! HA
In other news I am up to 14 written for my 25 days of Christmas. The 14th will very much please a certain reader. Next I plan on working on another one for TOS as so far it’s very heavily geared toward AOS which will still continue but I think I need at least one more TOS. So I am making progress!
Tomorrow the Fall Guys will be back!
November 7, 2019 at 8:56 am
Is it me? Am I the reader? Lol. Even if I’m not, I have no doubt I’ll be well pleased anyway.
Aw crazy face! Miss cat niece. And that means it’s one month from yesterday to Phoebes passing anniversary. Our girls are together, of that I have no doubt.
I bet it sold out fast! Still fun you were able to get a 12 days of Christmas one. I expect reviews of the wines!
Good job on all the fics. That’s so unbelievably awesome! I cannot wait to read!! Woo woo! Go you!!
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November 7, 2019 at 9:10 am
ha ha no, but you will love them all, I have no doubt, but this one will please someone else more! 😀
❤ Yeah I miss my Crazy girl
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November 7, 2019 at 9:13 am
Heh. I have no doubt I’m gonna be a very happy girl in December
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November 7, 2019 at 9:11 am
Oh and at least the 12 Wines was $60 not $100 so there is that LOL
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November 7, 2019 at 9:48 am
Wow, it just can’t be a whole year. That’s hard to fathom. I hope Crazy is telling Indie all the juicy stories about you! If I could be half the human that Indie was an amazing cat, and end up where he is now, I’d count my life a success.
Is it ME??? I figure we all have our arms waving in the air, waiting to be thrown the basketball with the chosen fan’s name on it.
And yeah, Kris nailed it, for 100% certain all of us will love it. And all of them. I can’t really say I’m ready for December yet, anyway, because the sooner December gets here, the….sooner it’s gone. I’m the glass-almost-empty kind of guy here.
So actually, you’re gonna come out ahead on that wine/advent deal. And since it’s not time to start them anyway, there’s really no hurry now. Hopefully they didn’t lie. I can’t imagine they would.
(note my heavy dripping sarcasm there) (oh, some TV show said I use sarcasm the wrong way. I don’t care. If everyone can use lie/lay interchangeably, by golly I’ll use sarcasm – often – and the word itself as I please.)
And if everyone can love Bones though he’s a curmudgeon, I figure maybe I should be more of a curmudgeon myself. And eventually I’ll be able to stop looking up how to spell it every time.
🎄🤶 🦃🍂
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November 7, 2019 at 10:21 am
They will, of course, claim it wasn’t a “lie” but a “mistake”, so as you can see I am the glass empty sort too! I know these stupid stores
It is indeed you, which you would know if you went to look at the list because I updated it!
Yeah a year passed quickly. I will say it’s made me love Luna all the more because she’s the only one left and she really is a sweet lump 🙂
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November 7, 2019 at 10:29 am
I did not see my name on the list. hahahahaha
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November 7, 2019 at 10:34 am
Oh…being a pain I see. Well…I can always take it down! Sheesh
If I had the sticking out tongue emoji somewhere you’d get it
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November 7, 2019 at 10:58 am
Here, I’ll lend you mine. 😝
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November 7, 2019 at 11:58 am
I was going to raise my hand to add myself to the ‘is it me?!?’ line but have since read above comments so hand is down. But still super excited for your December stories 😀
Aw, Crazy 😦 can’t believe it’s been a year ❤
We have an Aldi, Kroger, and world market here. I have friends that work at Aldi. One is a shift manager. I think they are all sold out of those Advent stuff too.
Hopefully you get the one or ordered 🙂
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November 7, 2019 at 12:32 pm
Got an email saying it was ready to be picked up, so I am hopeful 🙂
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