Just received a Barnes and Noble box. It is a fair size, and heavy, and hard to guess what is inside, ohhhhhh the waiting. I decided to wait until Christmas to open this one, oh the anticipation .......
(Thanks who ever my Secret Santa is, the anticipation is half the fun!)
Upon receipt when I must've made a comment that the package came from Santa.after which.the deliverer noticed the large sticker proclaiming the box contained "alcohol" and stated that " I must've been a very good girl this year"
I corrected him and confessed that , "No...I'm a very bad girl who happens to hang out with a very good crowd"
Location: Either at the shooting range or anywhere good beer can be found...
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My presents to others were shipped, and while I was pondering a road trip to pick up the packages waiting for me, the weather isn't cooperating, since it's snowing.
__________________ “The church is near but the road is icy, the bar is far away but I will walk carefully”
---Russian proverb
So the white UPS box marked North Pole looked silly under the tree like that, and the wife finally finished decorating the family room tree, so I popped open the plain white box with the North Pole return address (though UPS says it came from Texas ) and realized the two things I received had to be from the same person.
It was totally confusing because the wonderful card with the way too nice handwriting (seriously, like catholic school nice) could have been themed from another group I'm doing this with. Then I saw the bottle of Hess Cab, and knew there's no chance it came from the other group, nobody there has that level of taste. So for the coasters, stocking, wine guide and wonderful card, I thank you very much.
We are cleaning the house in anticipation of the in-laws arriving here tomorrow afternoon for the holiday, and the coasters have already been placed out.
Man Santa must be working overtime. One of Santa's elves, dressed like a fedex ground person, just left a package on a Sunday. Given that the roads are pretty much not driveable right now (snow and ice), that's pretty impressive.
More stuff under the tree, thanks very much, you know you are.....
Just got home from Baxter and Bessies' annual Beverly Hills Do. Waiting for me were 2 nicely wrapped gifts from Houston, with a note that yet another is on it's way! I'm still waiting to open.
Happy Happy Joy Joy!!!
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The Ole Switcher-oo Emergency Gift Opening
Dear Diary,
I'd planned to wait until Christmas to open my FT presents, but an emergency precluded my doing so.
It all started yesterday afternoon when the fan from Spain my wife wanted for Christmas arrived. Unfortunately, my wife saw the parcel delivered and so Emergency Gift Protocol 12B/6 had to be put into action.
I ran like a maniac upstairs into our bedroom, extracted the fan from the box, and searched for something that would fit into the original parcel. Fortunately, one of the boxes sent by my Secret San Josenta fit perfectly.
'Look darling', I called out as I rushed back down the stairs, 'the (unwrapping furiously) LEATHER SLEIGH BELL SNOW MAN DOOR HANGER I ordered for the front door arrived!'
The sound of sleigh bells attracted the attention of my two year-old son, who came biffing 'round the corner on his PlasmaCar at Mach 3.7, snatched the snowman out of my hand ('Mine!') and sped off.
'That's nice, dear', said my wife. 'How'd you find one that wasn't made in China?'
After temporarily retrieving the snow man from my son ('AAAAAAAAAAGH Mine!') I told her that it was made by Amish gnomes in Pennsylvania and that our wee ones would have to look elsewhere for their RDA of lead and melamine.
And that, Dear Diary, was that. Well, it was -that- until I got bored earlier today on this, the Winter Solstice, and took it upon myself to open the remaining presents sent by my Secret San Josenta.
In the second box, to go with the snowman, I found an awesome Moose leather sleigh bell door hanger. It's actually quite cool.
The third box contained a fascinating-looking silver-tone keychain sex toy rhinestone leafy crystalline magnifying egg pear ball thing, replete with clippy biker thingy, which I'm going to send to the Smithsonian for classification.
What's Christmas without the dulcet tones of Yoko Ono. And what's Yoko's voice without a mouthful of Japanese cookies? In the fourth and final box, a tin of very cool looking Japanese holiday cookies was found. I'll open then Christmas eve for the gang to eat along with their hot chocolate.
Thank you Secret San Josenta, you've brightened this, the darkest day of the year, with some fine quality holiday cheer. Merry Christmas!!
The sound of sleigh bells attracted the attention of my two year-old son, who came biffing 'round the corner on his PlasmaCar at Mach 3.7, snatched the snowman out of my hand ('Mine!') and sped off.
PlasmaCars are awesome. The speeds these things can achieve are nothing short of spectacular. At the same time they're quite safe both in and out of doors with their low center of gravity and human-powered speed. For kids 18 months and up. So long as you weigh less than 200lbs, you too can ride your kid's PlasmaCar.
WOW - Thank you so much. My Secret Santa (from Ann Arbor, Michigan) sent me a fabulous variety of gifts. I enjoy gardening so the paperwhite bulbs will look lovely growing in my pots this spring. Also, I enjoy making jewelry too, so the two necklaces have given me ideas of other things to make for people. The discount certificates will be used in SF this holiday week! Lastly, the bowl and glasses and the glass pebbles will be put to good use. Thank you for sending such a great gift. Happy Holidays to you and to all the other Secret Santa Flyertalkers out here! jmsoros
) and realized the two things I received had to be from the same person. 
THANK YOU Secret Santa in ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN
