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December Meme, Question #8
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poeticknowledge: Best birthday and Christmas gift ever received?
Confession time: I have a rather poor memory for when I got things. I remember such-and-such a thing was a gift, and generally I can pinpoint who gave it to me, but I usually can’t remember if it was for Christmas or birthday or just because or who knows what.
For instance,poeticknowledge sent me a wonderful teapot with pink flowers one year - wonderful both in that I like the teapot very much, and also because it fortuitously matches some china teacups and saucers that I inherited, which lacked only for a teapot to make a complete tea set - but I’m not actually sure when it was. Maybe early after I moved to Bloomington? We did have lots of delightful tea parties with it in Bloomington.
Another favorite gift is an olive wood lemon juicer my friend Micky bought for me while she was on an archaeological dig in Greece. It’s the perfect souvenir: suggestive of the area (the olive wood), beautiful (gorgeous wood grain), and useful.
I think that was the year she sent me hot chocolate cubes, so that must have been a Christmas present. The hot chocolate cubes were delicious, too.
Oh, and the mug I still use for my morning tea was a present from Caitlin (high school friend Caitlin, rather than current friend Caitlin; too many Caitlins…) - from not too long before our friendship imploded, ironically. It is too bad. I never was quite sure what went wrong, but I guess you can’t win them all. It’s a really good mug, anyway.
poeticknowledge: Best birthday and Christmas gift ever received?Confession time: I have a rather poor memory for when I got things. I remember such-and-such a thing was a gift, and generally I can pinpoint who gave it to me, but I usually can’t remember if it was for Christmas or birthday or just because or who knows what.
For instance,
poeticknowledge sent me a wonderful teapot with pink flowers one year - wonderful both in that I like the teapot very much, and also because it fortuitously matches some china teacups and saucers that I inherited, which lacked only for a teapot to make a complete tea set - but I’m not actually sure when it was. Maybe early after I moved to Bloomington? We did have lots of delightful tea parties with it in Bloomington. Another favorite gift is an olive wood lemon juicer my friend Micky bought for me while she was on an archaeological dig in Greece. It’s the perfect souvenir: suggestive of the area (the olive wood), beautiful (gorgeous wood grain), and useful.
I think that was the year she sent me hot chocolate cubes, so that must have been a Christmas present. The hot chocolate cubes were delicious, too.
Oh, and the mug I still use for my morning tea was a present from Caitlin (high school friend Caitlin, rather than current friend Caitlin; too many Caitlins…) - from not too long before our friendship imploded, ironically. It is too bad. I never was quite sure what went wrong, but I guess you can’t win them all. It’s a really good mug, anyway.
