14 June 2010
Keep Christmas With You All Through the Year
Have I mentioned that the mailman always knows when I’m coming to visit my parents because, throughout the entire month previous to the visit, they receive erratic flurries of packages?
Frankly, one of the highlights of my visits is going up to my room once we get back from the airport and being greeted by a small pile of boxes from Amazon and other random e-tailers. After having waited for well over a month for most items, there’s something ridiculously exciting about the delayed gratification of tearing open cardboard boxes containing the most prosaic items: printer cartridges
It’s like Christmas, if Christmas consisted of unwrapping household goods that I bought for myself.
I’m almost going to miss it whenever we move back to the U.S. You guys, dryer sheets are so much more exciting when you’ve been waiting for them for a month.
Wait, there’s a Mario Galaxy 2 now?
TO THE GAMING SHOP POSTHASTE
Hey, Lipsmackers are the best lip balm. They don’t have any color, they taste delicious and they actually work to keep lips from chapping. Also, my boyfriend likes guessing what flavor I have on. He never guesses the Kiwi one.
I’m not sure what I like more about this: that you order Lip Smackers in bulk, that you feel the need to defend your Lip Smackers ordering in bulk, your point about how it might be sort of a let-down whenever you do move back to a life in which going to Target is a chore instead of a special treat, OR (or or or!) your totally not subtle reference to one of the top, say, three songs from the Sesame Street Christmas Special.
You guys are all fantastic.
Also, since we got home today, I can reveal that our biggest packing success was managing to bring a smallish cat scratcher back in one of our suitcases. It’s not massive, but still. The biggest fail was an awesome bubble umbrella that I bought at Target, despite being pretty sure that it was far too large to fit in any sort of suitcase. It now lives at my parents’, and someday we will be reunited.
I wanna do a Target trip! I wanna do a Target trip! I already convinced Odette. You in? I feel I need you and Robin, and Alana (if she was here *sob*), while I do this experience, or it just won’t be the same.
O, Canadian! We will show thee the wonders of Target!
My family does the same thing every time they come to visit me – or I’m about to visit them.
I went to Target the other day, and I didn’t even need my passport!
You didn’t need a passport to go to Target??!!! I’m so jealous!