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ellen_datlow) wrote2008-12-24 12:41 pm
ellen_datlow) wrote2008-12-24 12:41 pm
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Happy Happy everyone!
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.
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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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.
One really wonders...
Re: One really wonders...
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