It's been pretty much the best Christmas ever -- at least the best of my adult life. Had gl. over for most of the week, with brief excursions for her cat-sitting job. Gifts I got for her:

(stocking)

• a bag's worth of mixed nuts
  
• 3 tangerines
  
• a bag of peppermints
  
• a tin of hard rasberry candies
  
• a silver hair pin in the shape of leaf (can't figure out how to use it)
  
• a rainbow colored wooden puzzle
  
• a little ceramic dish (for keys, etc)
  

(under tree)

• Edward Gorey day calendar
  
• box of chocolate covered cherries (a tradition in my family)
  
• paper star lamp
  
• light fixture for the lamp
  
• a book of my poetry, titled "mirror", that I hand-bound