Birthday gifts, 2009 Edition (Kelsey's at Ironwood, yo!)

This is a list of birthday gifts and cards that I received in 2009:


* An Echo in the Bone (Diana Gabaldon), as a treat to myself (I would have bought it anyway...)

* hanging out with Teunis for four straight days since he needed a place to stay (er, both? haha...)

* $50 in lucky money from my grandma (she must have been feeling more generous than usual, since I was expecting $20 as usual!)

* card, fresh mint Tic Tacs x3, J.J. Keropok Perisa Pizza-flavored chips, spearmint Certs x3, Arcor Crystal Fruit Drops [cherry / apple / orange / lemon], Jamaican Habanero hot sauce, Southwest Habanero hot sauce, Chevronnes' Sunflower seasoned seaweed, kimchi spicy seasoned seaweed [shared with Teunis], To My Daughter, With Love: A Mother's Memory Book x2 {what the...} [Donna Green], Peepshow: The Cartoon Diary of Joe Matt [Joe Matt], Pringles Blazing Buffalo Wings chips, March 2009 Canadian Readers Digest, August 2009 UK Readers Digest, granola bars x3, jar of peanut butter [promptly given to Teunis as "travelling food"], blue-purple-silver photo album with some photos in it already, City of Bones [Michael Connelly], a pink Rachael Hale 240-page journal with a cat and a cupcake on it, an "over the hill" birthday bear, and a 10-pack of Disney Christmas cards from parents

* salad dinner at Kelsey's and a $20 Chapters gift card from Steph

* Christon (birthday card and $15 Chapters gift card)

* birthday card, Butt Rot and Bottom Gas: A Glossary of Tragically Misunderstood Words (Eric Groves, Sr.) and one I Must Be Allergic To Idiots mini pack of Kleenex) from Jon and Harmony

* homemade card with photo from Danielle

* blue magma lamp from Andrea

* belated birthday card from Candy

* dinner at Kelsey's and a $20 Chapters gift card from Steph

* birthday card and $15 Chapters gift card from Christon

* dinner at townhouse, from my mother (good hanging out with Jon, Steph, and Harmony!)