Christmas has finally come!

I'll be working on photo posts shortly - this one could be as well if I had already re-unburied my computer. I'm doing that in a sec.

First, though I wanted to tell you all that Lou Ryan and I have finally received the Christmas presents from my mom! Why did it take so long? Part of it was because she was taking the time to make everyone afghans, and she didn't bring mine with her when she went on vacation!
` Better late than never, and it's really nice! In fact, that'll be my afghan to snuggle with Violet in while I'm doing my homework!
` Oh yes, and school is going great! I get to play 'Dr. Nociceptor' in a skit tomorrow! Anyway, the package also contained such strange things as a cat dish mat, a vintage travel poster calendar, and a bird-chirping alarm clock (hopefully less irritating than my phone, which Lou Ryan turned off the other day because it was bothering him so much).
` But wait, that's not all! She also threw in a Jeckyll Island tank top for me, a T-shirt for Lou Ryan, towels, washcloths, no-slip bath mat, dry erase markers for my giant dry erase board, a magnetic photo of her and her boyfriend being assailed by pirates, and a really cool Mother of Pearl necklace from Great Guana (where things are 'gooder').
` You can tell she packed most of this stuff before Christmas because there are also three hand-carved snowflake ornaments, a fake bird's nest decoration, plus some things for the kitchen including kitchen towels and a knife (tied with ribbons and a tag labeled 'to Da Gangsta, from Sarah's Mom'), a serving basket, deep dark drinking chocolate, a veggie cookbook, pomegranate raspberry green tea, pecans, sesame seed snacks, Bentley's green tea, wild crabapple jelly, and those wonderful (though strangely peachless) Georgia peach cookies!

Anyway, gotta go, being kicked out again!