Well, I have a nice (I hope) post planned for when I get back to school in two days (do I sound like I'm counting? Ooops  ) But I thought that I might as well update on the Christmas present list. Here's what happened, the surpises, the expected, and the yet to come:
An extremely cool dry cleaned tux, tux shirts, and other wonderfully dry cleaned things (like my coat, which is all packed up in my suitcase right now).
Wonderfully clunky new dress shoes that make that incredible "ca-click, ca-click" when you walk with them.
I decided to buy myself books this time, so I got Sandition and Other Stories and The Man Who Was Thursday from Amazon.com, and some Dorothy Sayers (Clouds of Witness and The Nine Taylors) from a great little used bookstore.
No movies that I know of, though my mom gave me an unopened present (I usually don't open presents til January 6, Epiphany, as a family tradition) which feels like it might be a DVD, but I don't know. Most frustrating, I suppose.
No CDs, either, but after the dry cleaning and shoes (which were about 50 dollars, I think), I didn't really expect much else.
Got bunches of foods, like gum, candy, I think some chips (unopened, but rather distinctive feeling in that package).
Not many clothes gotten this time, but I did buy some nice slinky nylon dress socks, which I have already lost one pair from, and found another pair of my dress socks I bought on last break. So it's about even (though I miss my poor slinky dress socks. Oh well, I still have two pairs of them).
Snow! Lots of it, yesterday. Sledding, and loveliness, and wetness, and fun!
Laundry - I live too far away to do this often, but I haven't had to pay for two weeks of laundry now, and I'm lovin' it.
Oh, did I mention I worked at McDonald's?
Watching Pride and Prejudice for the second time yesterday with my mom and sister. Oh, what fun. By the way, that's on my Easter present list...what, there's no such thing as an Easter gift exchange? Rats. What about an unbirthday present? (I must keep on hoping for these things, you know.)
Finally, I am bringing my beautiful coat back! Yay! Nellene got to see it, but now I get to have fun with it down in Tennessee too.
Two days...ooops, counting again. Note to self: must sleep between now and then. | 
The shoes sound nice too, and of course the coat sounds grand. I got a shawl for my formal dress so I can wear it in the winter now. Aren't clothes so very nice? 
