ateolf: (zoo and you)
ateolf ([personal profile] ateolf) wrote2009-12-22 01:51 pm

ho ho ho!

Mary Beth and i had our own christmas exchange today...first, my stocking stuffers: i can three cans of Dagoba drinking chocolate (authentic, xocaltl, and unsweetened) which, if you're aware of my anti-slavery moralish chocolate restrictions, is fuckin' awesome! i haven't had hot choclate in forever! (and, if you know me, hot chocolate is one of my favoritest things!) and also a little thing of peppermint lip balm...then for the presents: Life a User's Manual by Georges Perec (very timely as i'm still reading that Review of Contemporary Fiction all about him...) and Minimal Compact: One + One by One...i'd never heard of this band, but apparently it's this really good postpunk band of israelites relocated in holland...i like discovering new bands! christmas with the wife is fun! oh, and playing with cats who got a new toy and spray-on catnip...and the box that the present from Mary Beth's parents came in...the present was a fancy leather messenger bag, which will make a good laptop case or be a good bag for me as a teacher and all professional lookin', also a shirt too...anyway, merry christmas and some junk...

[identity profile] absolution.livejournal.com 2009-12-22 08:08 pm (UTC)(link)
i'm excited but still kind of mad/freaked out at what your idea of "predictable, minimal Christmas gift" is. that's two years in a row you clearly did a lot better than me for you. :b i'm gonna have to buy you a hooker and a pony next year...

[identity profile] ateolf.livejournal.com 2009-12-22 08:25 pm (UTC)(link)
ah...it's not that big a deal, it was such a good deal that i couldn't pass it up! (okay, my two different uses of the word "deal" right in a row makes it awkward...but i couldn't think of a better way to word it, so there you go...you know what i mean...)

[identity profile] farceprophet.livejournal.com 2009-12-23 05:30 pm (UTC)(link)
i already got him a hooker and a pony. plphh.

[identity profile] farceprophet.livejournal.com 2009-12-23 05:31 pm (UTC)(link)
is dagoba from the planet dagoba?

[identity profile] ateolf.livejournal.com 2009-12-23 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
i just looked it up and their names apparently come from the same Sinhala word...exciting, eh?