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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Heretic Apostate" data-source="post: 554625" data-attributes="member: 696">Let's see....  What I got for Christmas.Well, from the office Christmas party, I got a $20 gift certificate to the local movie theater.From my best friend (and the woman I've had a crush on for, oh, going on 16 years), I got a big kiss.  Hersheys kiss.  Strange sense of humor, that girl. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  She also is giving me one of the three things I asked for.  (I asked for a picture of her, to carry with me.  I asked for a day of her life, spent with me.  And I asked for snow, since it's been almost 20 years since I've seen it--and it happens to snow where her little sister lives, whom she rarely gets to see.  My friend's broke, so I didn't ask for anything expensive.)From my friend's mom, I got the 4-disc Fellowship of the Ring set.From my grandmother, I got a lantern.  And four mini-champagne-bottles of bubbles.  My grandma gives good gifts. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />From my parents, I got the standard $20 check.Next round of present exchanges happens within the next couple weeks.  (My family doesn't celebrate holidays always on the designated day.  We're weird that way.)I gave my brother and sisters gift certificates to Amazon.com.  (My little sister says she may have accidentally deleted hers.  That's what I get for sending them through email...  I'll have to ask my brother and older sister if they've got theirs.)  I gave the same to the kids of my friend's older sister.  (I adore those kids...)  I gave my friend some links for her Italian charm bracelet (REALLY cheap on eBay), some of her favorite chocolate, a couple Christian-themed bells, and a Christian CD.  I gave her mom gift certificates to Ben & Jerry's (little Napa has one, wow!) and to a local chocolate shop (so that my friend, her mom, and older sister could make a day of it, traipsing around downtown), as well as a box of chocolate-covered truffles.All in all, a good year. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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