This is possibly my most special Christmas memory. It's a little Hallmark channel-ish, but this really happened to me, so I don't care.

The present that made me laugh so hard I cried: I had just moved into a new apartment, had no furniture, and was spending Christmas all alone in this big, empty, new place. I waited very patiently to open the box my family had sent me, but once Christmas morning came, that shit was fair game. I was getting all teary…

My first year working in clinical research ended in the dark part of the year with one of my patients having two strokes. It couldn't have happened to a patient I liked or respected more. Unlike other crises, my position made it impossible to turn away from this: it was literally my job to follow the events. I…

Just recently. We finished work for the year on Friday and my boss handed me my Christmas gift, a lovely bottle of wine worth about $50 which I thought was very generous in and of itself. I didn't see the envelope in the gift bag until I got home, opened it and it was a gift voucher to one of the best restaurants in…

My rich but stingy and self-absorbed grandparents gave my husband and I a no-strings-attached trip to Disney world for our honeymoon. It was a complete surprise. I had only mentioned in passing that we looked into Disney, but were way too broke to go. At my bridal shower my grandmother gave me a blank check and told…

This actually was when I was a kid (12) but when after 2 years of begging every day my Mom finally told me I could get a horse. I was in shock! I cried and cried and cried! It is still the nicest thing anyone has ever done for me!

This year for my birthday my husband bought me the perfect pair of earrings, this doesn't seem like a big deal on the surface but we've been together for 6 years and he has NEVER bought me a decent gift, he means well but just generally sucks at it. I was genuinely shocked and the look of satisfaction on his face was…

Not a gift but a card, from my brother on my birthday. At that time we were spending our senior year in college living together in an apartment- he's one year older but had taken a year off school. We don't have any other siblings. He's not a very sentimental or emotionally expressive guy, but the card read:

Not exactly a present, but my sister called me on my birthday the other day, and she sang happy birthday to me together with her kids, husband,my mom and my cousin whom I love dearly. I haven't seen them for over six months and inspite of having a pretty good day, I got so chocked up I couldn't speak, just bawled. My…

My MIL gave me a "historical roots of modern paganism" calendar last year for Christmas. In that simple gesture, she recognized a) I had pagan leanings b) I loved history and c) that I needed to be shown she wasn't going to judge.

Wake me up when there's a "G Major" remix.

It's pretty telling that the only way they can get all those false rape accusations they whine about is to manufacture them themselves.

We would make such ginger babies. Just sayin.

I had no idea that he was a ginger.

He describes his hair colour as auburn, I think his natural colour has darkened a bit over the years... Which happens, but it's a shame in this case.

Thank you. So obvious. SO. OBVIOUS.

Yes! Yes! Yes! Gingerbatch.

WHAT IS WRONG WITH ALL OF YOU THIS POST IS NOTHING WITHOUT THIS

Mi mi?

Egregious oversight, for sure.