More Christmas.
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darcydodoOoh, forgot the LED flashlight.
Anyway, stocking.
Turned out I didn't get the chai; my dad had gotten that for himself. But since he doesn't actually drink chai, I had assumed it was for me. :)
Lots of scorfs (mostly [or entirely?] satsuma mandarin oranges).
A toothbrush (which is good, because I've only got a crappy one in Berkeley).
A York peppermint pattie (my mother, by contrast, got about ten of them. And I thought it was spelled "patty," but apparently not, says the wrapper).
A random mechanical pencil, 0.5mm lead (my mother then handed me another).
An ancient pencil with a bubble-blowing thing in the end; but the bubbles have all dried up. I'm figuring it might work if I just add water (TM).
A check for $83.80... from 1999. From our friend Gordon Fain to my mother, paying her back for a copy of Woodhouse's English-Greek Lexicon she bought him. Somehow thinking it's no longer valid.
A little Dia de los Muertos matchbox scene with a female skeleton wearing a sombrero and playing the banjo. I know it's a female skeleton because she's wearing a skirt and has two pigtails.
Anyway, stocking.
Turned out I didn't get the chai; my dad had gotten that for himself. But since he doesn't actually drink chai, I had assumed it was for me. :)
Lots of scorfs (mostly [or entirely?] satsuma mandarin oranges).
A toothbrush (which is good, because I've only got a crappy one in Berkeley).
A York peppermint pattie (my mother, by contrast, got about ten of them. And I thought it was spelled "patty," but apparently not, says the wrapper).
A random mechanical pencil, 0.5mm lead (my mother then handed me another).
An ancient pencil with a bubble-blowing thing in the end; but the bubbles have all dried up. I'm figuring it might work if I just add water (TM).
A check for $83.80... from 1999. From our friend Gordon Fain to my mother, paying her back for a copy of Woodhouse's English-Greek Lexicon she bought him. Somehow thinking it's no longer valid.
A little Dia de los Muertos matchbox scene with a female skeleton wearing a sombrero and playing the banjo. I know it's a female skeleton because she's wearing a skirt and has two pigtails.
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Date: 2003-12-26 05:16 am (UTC)I was quite jealous that my brother got toothpaste and I didn't, since I hate buying that kind of stuff. Likewise, a toothbrush seems very practical.
But more importantly...it really is pattie? Weird. I'll have to think that one over.
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Date: 2003-12-26 07:26 am (UTC)I don't, since I know precisely what kind I want. Toothbrushes are harder; I don't see the point in buying them, as the dentist gives you them for free, but then I have to wait until I go to the dentist, and then I only get one, of course. Which makes having one in L.A. and one in Berkeley a bit tricky.
it really is pattie
Apparently so. I agree, strange. But it might be a brand sort of thing.
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Date: 2003-12-26 12:51 pm (UTC)Well, lucky you getting free dental care. Hard enough to find an NHS dentist here.
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Date: 2003-12-27 03:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-12-27 10:28 am (UTC)