To everyone who celebrates around the winter solstice, Happy Holidays to you.
I've got a few errands to run today (and maybe one or two more gifts to find--although that may have to wait till the 26th)then am joining friends on the upper west side for a Chile dinner Christmas eve party. We may check out St. John the Divine's pre-mass celebration too.

Then tomorrow, a friend from upstate NY will come by around 2pm, we'll exchange gifts, have lunch and hang around then go off to the BIG annual FEAST at our friend's apt in the east village--where a party of 12 will eat, drink, drink, eat and make merry.

Oh yes, and pass around a grab bag full of weird/cheap/wonderful/silly/useful stuff until the bag is empty...then we all trade for what we want to keep. Anything rejected goes into next year's bag unless it's the second year for that item. Then it goes to the Salvation Army. Our lovely hostess started out supplying all the gifties but over the years most of us have started to contribute our own...we just have to make sure we don't grab our own wrapping paper. Fun fun fun.
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From: [identity profile] kylecassidy.livejournal.com


merry gringle! may your new year be filled with bats and werewolves of the most festive sort.

From: [identity profile] 14theditch.livejournal.com


Have a great one, Ellen. Hope the New Year brings what you hope for.

From: [identity profile] ellen-datlow.livejournal.com


More contracts and incoming money? ;-) Thanks. You too.

From: [identity profile] misplacedmind.livejournal.com


I love that gift exchange idea! It's always tempting to do creative gift exchanges with my friends, but I inevitably find "the perfect gift" for someone in particular, which throws everything off. I've tried stowing things away for birthdays, but either get too excited about it and want to give it right away, or forget where I've stowed it, heh!

Hope you had a lovely holiday!

From: [identity profile] ellen-datlow.livejournal.com


Just home and am very happy with my cigar box, three miniature liquor bottles, a weird Japanese eraser, dry skin cream, and best of all (Genuine) Placebo (brand) Rx: Bad Karma Cure-all which comes with pills and instructions!

I love buying gifts all year round but once I found the perfect gift for a friend: a very small vintage bottle of arsenic...but I lost it--I don't know if I threw it away by accident or if it's somewhere...in my back room. If I ever move out of here it might show up.
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One really wonders...


about the kind of friend for whom a small vintage bottle of arsenic would be a perfect gift.... She wouldn't happen to be a fiery tempered toxicologist whose BSI nom is Curare...?
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