Have we all surfaced from the sea of turkey and wrapping paper?
No holiday casulties I hope.
Did you get everything you wanted? Yea me neither (but then the brand new 4-runner was reaching a little..heh). But then I don't have high expectations so whatever I get I am plesantly surprised by. Actually this was the first year that I actually had more gifts under the tree than anyone else in a long long time (yes I do count, and so do you, just admit it already). Hehe.
Usually my baby sister takes that title. But as my parents are footing the bill for her trip to the UK next summer.....I racked up this year. Yes.
I'm never really upset by not getting the most pressies. My parents tend to come through when I really need them during the year so at Christmas time I am happy to get whatever they feel like buying me. I think we've all turned the sock/underwear corner. You know...when you were a kid getting socks was lame....now it's a great gift ...cuz that means less of that necessity that you have to actually buy with your own hard earned money.
I love getting things that I can actually use.
I love giving presents that people can actually use.
But I have to wonder at some of my family members. The same family members that I have been related to for the last 25 years that I have been on this earth. Some of them know me better than others. But all of them have access to me. How hard is it to shoot me an email, call my phone (either one), or come by my house. Hell, if you can get a carrier pigion to me I'll respond to that too. All you have to do is ask and I will gladly give you a long list of very moderatly priced things that I can always use. Some of this don't actually cost anything, from several of my family members I would gladly take a promise of time spent together as a gift. If you don't want to ask me, my mother is always available also. And let me tell you, if there is another person on this earth (that I don't live with) who knows me, it is that woman.
So to the unspecified family member who got me the set of hot pink eye makeup with matching nail polishes, Thank you. I really do love the thought. I am completely baffeled that you saw hot pink and thought of me but you did. And, as they say, it is the thought that counts.