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1. It is supposed to rain heavily from Tuesday through Saturday, which of course includes Thursday, the day we were planning to go to Universal Studios. Now, if this were Disneyland we could change our reservation. Or if we already had Universal Studios annual passes, there wouldn't be reservations in the first place and we wouldn't have to do a thing. But for day tickets, if you buy them online (which is encouraged since you get a hefty discount), you can't change the day or get a refund. My ticket is a two-day pass, and I used it on the initial day and then have 90 days to use the second one, so no problem for me. But Carla's is a day ticket purchased for the 25th, and while we could just eat the cost, we've decided to tough it out and go anyway. Hopefully the rain won't be as bad that day, or it will mostly rain overnight or whatever. Anyway, we do not have any sort of rain gear other than umbrellas, so to hopefully get less wet if it does rain heavily, I ordered us rain parkas off Amazon today and they will arrive tomorrow, in plenty of time for our rainy day.

2. Speaking of ordering things online, you may remember when I decided to stock up on shoes because I didn't want to risk these ones being discontinued when I actually needed to replace them. Well, as it turns out, I think I misjudged the size when I ordered them online, and the new ones are painful (the right shoe hurts my arch and gives me shin splints). I had a vague memory that when I purchased the first pair in store that they were a wide. It was a size smaller than I usually wear, but fit well. But when I went to order them online, wide was not an option, so I thought maybe I was misremembering and these just feel wide while being a regular width shoe. Buuuuut, I think they were actually a wide, and as it turns out Adidas does sell that shoe in a wide, but it's a separate entry on the website rather than the main entry allowing you to choose both size and width. I have two pairs unworn in the closet and was able to still submit a return for those, and in fact went to FedEx today and shipped them off. The pair I already wore a fair bit was also ordered too long ago to return anyway, so I'll just donate that to Goodwill. They're almost brand new and will fit someone who is not me very well. A new pair in wide is coming tomorrow, and hopefully those will fit correctly because I don't want to wear my old shoes in the rain because they have no tread left on them and are very slippery.

3. There is a little gyro place up the street from us that has been there forever. We used to go there fairly often when it was under the original management, but in recent years it has changed hands twice and also I try to avoid things with a lot of garlic and onion, so we haven't eaten there in ages. But we decided to try it out today and while they have overly complicated the menu and added burgers and other random stuff, they do still have gyros and they are still delicious.

4. We had a delicious dinner tonight, too. We were planning to have one of the frozen Chicago deep dish pizzas Carla's aunt had ordered for us, but then Carla decided she wanted to make latkes, too, since we didn't do that last Sunday when Alex was over. So we had pizza and latkes, which is not the most traditional combination but both were very tasty.

5. I would estimate Chloe spends a good 80% of her time in the warming bed during the winter lol.