Just now realized that I got one book. Me, who has a wish list solely for books.

This is a wonderful community of people. and I’m grateful y'all are here. 

I’m very happy with the day. Just wanna say, I got a jigsaw puzzle board / keeper, but no puzzle. It’s crackin’ me up, but only on the inside. We have some puzzles I can pull out until my birthday in January, when I suppose I might get one. Plus the after-Christmas sales.

Thank you, Maya.  I appreciate it.

We celebrate Hanukkah, but still.....I did not get what I wanted. Which was just a phone call or even a one line text from anyone in my family, even though I am in the midst of the horrible side effects of ongoing radiation and chemo and really suffering right now. Yesterday and today have been the worst, had a major…

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I skipped out on Christmas by telling my folks my stomach was too upset to travel to my Aunt’s. But I had Christmas Eve dinner with them and got a few nice gifts and got to endure my father’s nonsensical Pro-Trump ramblings, which were constantly undercut with his admission (finally) that the man is an idiot, but he…

Evans has been further down on my list of Chris’s but Dodger is a rescue, and he is treated like a king, so this bumps Evans up the list.

Merry Christmas to you too.

My big gift this year was getting some money squirreled away toward going with my son to Disney World next fall. Lightsabers are expensive. Oh, also my mom got my wife and me tickets to see Waitress (the Broadway show - but not on Broadway).

I’m happy you had a good Christmas. I think sometimes we forget it isn’t our job to have a wonderful Christmas per commercialism, its already wonderful because the holiday is a reminder of how much God loves us. And you did good work by sharing that love with others! Also, I don’t know where you live, but in my neck…

My mother complained for nth time how “weird” my gay bro and his lesbian roommate are, and then rushed me off the phone so she could leave to go to my aunt’s and not get yelled at for being late. So that was plenty of family.

My Christmas was fine. Good food, decent company (only less than a handful of people this year), usual arguments where I won’t watch really shit Christmas films they demand and they won’t watch what I argue to put on (in this case the entire ICC ODI World Cup New Zealand vs England (and Wales) Final). Overall bearable.

Thought I was spending Christmas alone because I got divorced in the spring, and my family lives on the other end of the country.

Dear Maya, I am so sorry that those physically closest to you have left you feeling so unloved. I’ve been following along with your news for the past several months now and it feels like as good a time as any to say how impressed I have been by your character and fundamental fucking goodness in the face of some really…

We love you forever.

Girl, I’m coming to your house!

I have tamales for dinner tonight! And I will be making menudo for the morning. Gotta hit up Vallarta first thing in the am to get bolillos and pan de dulce. My family is so many generations removed from Mexico that we didn’t really do many Mexican things (parents didn’t even speak Spanish! )but Christmas food was…

This year was hard, painful, lonely and heartbreaking, but it is almost over.