Average Jane’s Christmas Loot

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Over the past few years, my family members have placed elaborate restrictions on gift exchanges among the adults. We don’t exchange Christmas gifts with my dad and stepmother anymore, and my husband and I usually choose to use our budgeted funds to celebrate our December 9th anniversary instead of Christmas. Still, I ended up with a pretty good haul this year:

The book The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists. I read it yesterday morning and found it highly entertaining. It’s sort of a cross between a Douglas Adams book and the movie Cabin Boy: pirates and anachronistic goofiness galore. Here’s the Pirate Captain’s blog, in case you’re interested.
Rudy, the tissue box holder shaped like an Easter Island statue. I’m trying to figure out how to mount it on our bedroom wall. It’ll look great across from our cobra-shaped, brass candleholder sconces.
A new microwave! My sister could no longer stand to watch me irradiate myself with her cast-off, partially operational microwave from 1997. Now I have a sleek new microwave that actually matches my other appliances (no more faux woodgrain!) and may save me from future burned bags of microwave popcorn.
A container of Sunny Seed Drops, delicious chocolate-covered, candy-coated sunflower seeds.
A hand-knitted, periwinkle blue, fuzzy scarf
And from my husband, who wasn’t supposed to get me anything, a Bose Wave Radio (woohoo!). It’s already making me spend more time in the kitchen than I ordinarily would.

So how about you? Did you get anything really good?

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4 responses to “Average Jane’s Christmas Loot”

December 27, 2004

Cagey

Yeah!!I am glad you got the Easter Island kleenex holder – the Average Jane le Manse was lacking without it. I can’t wait to see it! The best loot I got was
1)a kick-a$$ $50 certificate to a local yarn store (I’m a knitter). I see a guilt-free yarn purchase in my future.
2)SIMS w/the Livin’ Large expansion pack (Lord, grant me strength and help my addictive personality).
3)A very cool snow globe
4)cold, hard cash (why do they say “cold,hard”. I love cash – I think it is “warm, snuggly”.

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December 27, 2004

Pharmgirl

The best thing was a digital picture printer. Yeah! No more excuses for never having any hard copies! I also got the SNL Trivial Pursuit game, which I promptly got my butt kicked at! Santa was definitely paying attention, though. Gotta love the fat guy!

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December 28, 2004

Joolie

Ooh, Rudy’s nice. He’s so solemn and dignified except for the (snicker) tissue stuffed up his nose.
I got a button maker and some Target gift certificates, which I spent immediately in a clearance-rack shopping spree.
Glad you had a good holiday.

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December 28, 2004

mojokittycat

Favorite gift was a clock/temp guage/weather station that I can put in the little guy’s room so I can dress him appropriately in the morning without sticking my head out the window. Also really like the Este Lauder gift bag I got though, oddly enough, I randomly got 2 at different Christmases (this is not the sort of thing I’d normally ask for or wear). Guess this tells me that I really should start spending more time on my appearance in the morning, huh?

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