What I got for Christmas 2005

I finally got a Christmas card / Mickey Mouse and Winnie the Pooh stickers / some promo for a band from Valencia called THE RED ROOM / a mini-calendar with cats on it from Spain today! Carmina (on_the_ground) put down the wrong address at first, and then wondered why it was sent back because nobody lived there! Ah well, I have it now. :D

Since I'm here, I might as well list off all the stuff I got for Christmas... yay for gift lists!

I got hockey books from Candy. (the best gift of the year!)

Baked goods and a card from Denise / Brian / Julie.

A thing from my mom plus stuff to care for it, which was HER idea. :P

Pink gloves (not my color), a notebook with a cat on it (given to Melissa as part of her Christmas gift), big Toblerone bar (given to the Morrills when I was there for NYE PPV), and a porcelain angel from my mom.

A letter, a Christmas card, two random photos (homecoming / Cozumel), and the Book of Put Downs: A Collection of Acid Wit from Farrah (lilaznffairy421).

A photo of guinea pigs from Kira (kazulanth).

A "God Bless The Universe" bumper sticker from Amy (exclamation_pnt).

A very cute Hello Kitty drawing from Rachel (cynicalsiren).

Postcards, Christmas cards, bookmarks, various souvenirs, and stickers from Vania, little Clara's parents, Daphne (sinjah), Brynn (irishvampire13), Cecelia (cecelia_), Kim (kimmers_81), Stasia (stasia), Katya (katzk), Christine (occipitaldruid), Sara W. (sparkle_bint), Charlotte (charshark), Caroline (riadsala), Courtney (bjornskjold), Amy (amy_star_), April (angeldrummer7), Stephanie (pandorabox82), Shannon (tearfulgoodbyes), Julie (julie709), Jasmine (surrey_sucks), Samara (mystic_notions), Kelli (neonrose5), Melissa (misssims82), Amber (randomlancila), Soleta, Amy (exclamation_pnt), Caitlyn (anas_dance), Kadri (bad_habit), Sheryl (sheryll), Ana (glamourcorpse), Carmina (on_the_ground), Darren (dfrancis), John (snooooopy), Nyssa (giggles_19), Rachel (cynicalsiren), and others.

Fresh homemade cosmetics (an ocean-smelling blue soap) from Fresh Line and recipes for melomakarona (small honey cakes), tiropita (cheese triangles), galaktoboureko (milk pie), rolled spanakopitas, and pastitsio... all from Daphne (sinjah)

A can of Mauna Loa macadamia nuts (onion-garlic) from Elaine from Hawaii.

Snowman doll, candy, raisins, and a teddy bear from the Sunday School teacher / department.

A card, a lovely velvet bookmark with my name on it in gold (plus a golden heart), and a pretty mitt ornament from Chris' mom.

The Book of Lists, The Canadian Edition: The Original Compendium of Curious Information and a $20 Chapters gift card from Melissa's family.

I also bought stuff for myself: Ripley's Believe It Or Not: Planet Eccentric! and the newest Guinness World Records book for 2006... both were more than 50% off! :D


As for what I gave people for Christmas:

Postcards, souvenirs, cards, and bookmarks to a lot of (online) friends, all / most listed above.
The last two Harry Potter books to Katya. (katzk)
A Barbara Johnson compendium and a notebook to Melissa.