i am an unrequited astronomer, pretend patient, gentle adventurer, pedal enthusiast, recovering calligrapher, occasional thespian and unfinished poet living in portland, oregon. contacting me via email is usually a good idea.
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so i finally put everything away. the following is a list of the gifts i received for christmas; feel free to compare it to the list my family asked me to send:
* tea & teapot, jams (thanks, dad & vickie!)
* chicken soup for the traveller's soul (thanks, grandma!)
* green sweater (thanks, grandma!)
* amelie dvd (thanks, michael!)
* amelie soundtrack (thanks, dan!)
* o'reilly's mysql cookbook (thanks, michael!)
* a gift certificate to media play, which bought a dual-outlet phone extension & 30 blank cds (thanks, dad & vickie!)
* garnet & amethyst necklace (thanks, dad & vickie!)
* a nice watch (thanks, bones!)
* calphalon cookware (thanks, dad & vickie!)
* shower shock caffeinated soap! (thanks, michael!)
* vanilla lotion w/ terry bear (thanks, janis)
* amazon gift certificate (thanks, julie!)
* chocolate & frame (thanks, teresa)
* a hair-clip-brush (thanks, julie. those french people! what will they think of next?)
* gnarl! and illegal alien (thanks, rob!)
accidental:
* head-mounted lights
* a set of small star glasses
stocking:
* mentos
* acrylic 3d puzzle
* mc escher slide puzzle
* giant candy cane
* back scratcher
* kleenex
* vaseline dry-skin lotion
* gardner's lotion
* shortbread cookies
* pez
* jetflier glider
* blue m&m train tube
* candy necklaces
* white toblerone
* frizz miracle hair masque
* multicolored mechanical pencil
* two peanut butter trees
* raisins
* cinnamon altoids
* a tiny blown-glass rose
* chapstick
* a lisa simpson ornament
* a rose barrett
* 3 packages of doublemint gum
* cinnamon hot chocolate
* santa's coal bubble gum
* two tiny bells
* a bunch of nuts still in the shell i'll never be able to crack
the whole trip, with gas, food & stocking stuffers, came to about $200. i was hoping to do my 22,500 mile checkup today, but it looks like they're closed. i think i saw the newest upstairs-and-across neighbor this morning.