You are correct, and I try to remember this every year as I give out cool gifts to my entire family and get exactly none of the things I asked for. Next year I'm going to ask for charitable donations in my name.
Dad: set of beer glasses with Irish toast son them
Mom: Embroidered slippers that complete the set of gloves and scarf I gave for bday and mother's day (this makes next year's gifts problematic, but right now, mama love me)
Bro: Gift certificate to Amazon and a wall map of S. America for his new crib
Sis: Spin magazine subscription and some mixes
Bro - in - Law: NHRA hat that he declared his best gift.
But alwys remember: Jesus is the reason for the season, nice mullet!
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Throughout his life, from childhood until death, he was beset by severe swings of mood. His depressions frequently encouraged, and were exacerbated by, his various vices. His character mixed a superficial Enlightenment sensibility for reason and taste with a genuine and somewhat Romantic love of the sublime and a propensity for occasionally puerile whimsy.
harry Wrote:
I understand that you, of all people, know this crisis and, in your own way, are working to address it. You, the madras-pantsed julip-sipping Southern cracker and me, the oldman hippie California fruit cake are brothers in the struggle to save our country.
FT Wrote:
LooGAR (the straw that stirs the drink)