Home from the holidays

[bironic]

I never wished you a happy Hanukkah. Happy belated Hanukkah! Mine was laid-back and enjoyable; potato pancakes and a Skype call with my dad & his part of the family on the first night, the giving of gelt and portable holiday-scented hand sanitizers to my coworkers.

And now, happy post-solstice, post-Christmas and post-most other December holidays as well. I spent a few relaxing days at synn's place with her and her visiting mom and her two cats that prevented the putting-out of gifts under the tree until the last minute due to their propensity for eating all the ribbons but who were forgiven on account of being fluffy. Games (including Star Trek Catan from my mom), TV (Psych, Firefly, X-Files, Storage Wars, a whacked-out movie version of the Nutcracker Ballet), food, crafts, conversation; who could ask for anything more? A joyous Christmas morning gift exchange followed by a Skype call with my mom & her part of the family.

Many excellent things were given and received. You all need to see these in particular, courtesy of synn:



Star Trek watercolor portraits from an etsy shop! (click thumbnail above for bigger—there are four)

 

Rocketship tea infuser!



Tiny glass octopus!



Frankenstein's monster plush!

Drove back safely through sleet and snow yesterday, which turned into rain early enough that I made it over to deelaundry's after work for further celebrations. Among other things, she gave me a camel-colored cloche hat that matches my winter coat and looks super cute with the graduated bob I've had for a few months. I will have to be careful lest people mistake me for someone fashionable. :)

I did not send as many holiday cards as usual to fan friends, and some of them are likely to be late; I'm sorry. Thank you to those of you who sent cards—nightdog, rubynye, anyone else (roga ♥) whose cards might be winging their way to the mailbox.

Comments

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Happy holidays! You're very welcome, and thank you for sharing these nifty gifts with us!

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Thank you and you're welcome in return! Happy almost New Year. <3

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

Yay cards! (And I got yours, by the way.) And yay for excellent times and holidays and friends.

♥ ♥ ♥

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes and yes. <3

[cincodemaygirl.livejournal.com]

All your gifts are so great, I can't decide which one is the most awesome!!!

I'm glad to hear your holidays have been good--I'm looking forward to NYE!

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Hee. It was a truly lovely haul this year, and of course there were the less materialistic joys of donations and plain old-fashioned spending time with friends and family in the mix, too.

>>looking forward to NYE!

Me too! Maybe we'll be able to get an early start.

[alpheratz.livejournal.com]

Happy holidays! That is a really cool tea infuser!

Haha, I totally did not do cards this year. OH WELL.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

On the back of the infuser box, in French, it says "Let your tea take a journey [into space]"! Love it.

[amnisias.livejournal.com]

Happy holidays! It sounds like you spread the joy very evenly between all family memebers and friends. Good food, crafts & conversations, who could ask for more. Since I didn't get your address I couldn't send you a Christmas card (and you missed out on a dazzling Mama Christmas from the roaring 20ies..) I am sending you good wishes this way, but if you'd like to go postal next year you can still leave your address over http://amnisias.livejournal.com/28090.html.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Ah, sorry to have missed it. I'm leery of posting RL info on LJ, even in PMs. Will have to email you sometime. :)