Thursday, December 25, 2003
Gifts Received:at 9:38 PMa black winter coat
ice/snow scraper
a camera
four rolls of camera film
an Ogden Nash collection
Burt's Bee's foot creme
a $35 Barnes and Noble gift card
a five-CD set of classic Disney songs
a Bart Simpson notepad
an Islamic-themed necklace
a $10 Blockbuster gift card
the "Les Miserables" DVD
blue nail clippers (a stocking stuffer)
a medium-sized Hershey kiss
a box of cherry cordials
a Groucho Marx pool toy
two Beatles news archive DVDs
Edward Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (very abridged)
a book on famous speeches
Frederic Wheelock's Latin textbook (sixth edition)
the George Harrison tribute album
All in all, quite lucrative.