It's been awhile, and I really ought to say SOMETHING. It's a busy season, of course, and I'm hopping from one foot to the other wondering what I'm gong to manage to do for Christmas.
I'm having my "mother-in-law and step-children" over for a traditional Gringo Christmas Dinner. I've bought the turkey, fixings for many of the trimmings, but still have to find sweet potatoes. Some things are just hard to get.
I received
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kzorith 's annual care package, which was chock full of good stuff, as always. I find it weird that I can't bring pecans with me from the States without getting them confiscated and destroyed, but he can mail the SAME bag (CostCo brand) to me, and it comes through just fine. I'm thinking, in fact, of buying and mailing much of my purchases this time around in the States, just because it's likely less expensive than the "excess baggage" charges I've paid the past couple of trips. I'm sure I can send a good 10 kilos for under US$50.AND - - - I got a package from
amaristee today. It actually made it to Correos de Chile on Saturday, but I wasn't free to go pick it up until this morning. It had the MOST adorable little Black bear in it - - adorned with rhinestones reading: Sexy Little Bear.amaristee is a sweetie, and I've always felt close to her - e'en though we've never met. I can't imagine what moved her to send me such a lovely Christmas gift, but there it was, and I love it.Not much else to report. I'm THINKING of having a bit of a gathering at my house on New Year's Eve . . . I don't generally celebrate it, but I want to see the "chicos," and we haven't gotten together for some time. Juan Carlos is still in the hospital, and I doubt he'll be coming out. So David probably won't be able to make it even if I DO hold some sort of event.
I'm usually in bed before midnight, and I NEVER go out on Amateur Night. Not safe. Although there are fewer drunks behind the wheel, here, than in Montana . . . .
Ah, well. So much for the December update.
Hugs and Tugs all 'round.