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katzies!!!!

OH MY GOD! You are THE BEST!

I came home from a busy, very stressful, very crazy day at work (and I worked 40 minutes of overtime), and your German care package was awaiting me when I came home.

Dear God. Lindt. Milka. German cookies. So much awesome stuff in there. Brings back so many memories. I wanted to dig right in and start pigging out, but I suppose I need to have something resembling dinner first. Lance is ordering a pizza.

Thank you, a million times. I knew that package was coming, but I pretty much totally forgot about it, so it definitely felt like a little bit of Christmas today.

And Santa finally escaped from the UPS warehouse, meaning that the delivery of my other Christmas gifts was made today. They are sitting under the tree right now.

And we have plans for New Year's Eve. :) I think I may share some of my European bounty with Rich & Kathy. They will appreciate it.

Christmas, Take Two

The rest of my haul:

- The Peanuts Holiday DVD Collection
- Pacific Northwest Wining & Dining by Braiden Rex-Johnson
- DK Eyewitness Travel Pacific Northwest
- Starting Your Career As A Freelance Writer by Moira Anderson Allen

Oh, and I won the crazy hat contest at work. My prize? The Phase 10 card game. Never played it before. Not quite sure how. But since I always travel with a pack of UNO cards, this might be a nice change of pace.

Ooooh...oooooh!!

This Pacific Northwest Wining & Dining book is pure, unadulterated porn for foodies and winos like myself. ;) Oh, I'm sorry...did I say wino? I meant wine lover...yeah. HAHA.

I'm going to shelve it with my cookbooks. There's a recipe on every page from either a winery, a restaurant or a gourmet food shop.

Soooooooo many good things in this book. And the photography is TO DIE FOR. And now I have more places to put on my to-visit list.

And I haven't even looked at the travel guide yet, other than a cursory glance.

Speaking of books...

The King's Daughter: A Novel of the First Tudor Queen - absolutely spellbinding.