Thanks!

This has been a wonderful year of gifts! Alright, so it's a bit materialistic, but I do want to thank my friends for the great gifts I got this year... They took both implied and blunt wishlists seriously and I have to say, I'm very grateful!

This is why each of these gifts is so cool... Roomie gave me my ultimate kilig DVD from the final season of the Vicar of Dibley when the vicar gets married to yummylicious Harry played by Richard Armitage, of course. This was an absolutely pleasant surprise! Apart from this, roomie included, with the already great gift, a Shu Uemura eyelash curler. I've been scoping for one, but haven't been able to bring myself to get one primarily because I have virtually no lashes and so I didn't think it would be worth the purchase. So thanks to roomie who thought my lashes could potentially be curled after all.

Next, my secret Santa J, as it turns out, gave me some new additions to my flimsy library. Got me books from Milton Friedman, and two new authors I wanted to read: Jorge Amado and Lisa See. Can't wait to plop down and read them!

Then, there's Franny and Noel's gift--another interesting and fun book on Egyptology. This is sort of a more mature pop-up book as you can see below.

And of course, these pictures are made possible by the absolutely perfect gift I got for my birthday:

Thank you!!!