The Loot List… *EDIT*

From Sonja:
An assorted of homemade presents, including a ‘box of kisses’
A stuffed penguin & stuffed reindeer (Which she informed me are Raya & me.)
A necklace & earring set, with a black stone.

From Harley:
A throwing star

From Mum:
Boots
Naruto Uncut Box Set 3
Squidbillies Volume 1
Hellsing Manga 4 & 9 (Just need 5-8 to go with them now.)
Naruto Manga 33
Hershey’s Fun, Food & Crafts ‘cookbook’ & 10 oz. pkg. Cherry Cordial Crème kisses.
Fantasmagoriana: Tales of the Dead [The book they read at villa Diodati that summer.]
Penguin nightshirt

From Santa:
Assorted candy
Tennis shoes
CD visor for Appa (I need to decorate it appropriately before putting it in place.)
Temporary tattoos (Everyone got these.)
Hot Cocoa (Everyone got this too.)
Hell Boy DVD
Car air freshener
VooDoo doll keyring. (Her name is Harmony; she’s good luck voodoo. & cutes!)
Green Kau neopet (It’s XenaCow!)
A jumpdrive
A flask (It’s sort of a belt buckle and it has a skull on it…It‘s mostly me poking fun at that part of me where Barty lives.)
Eyeliner
Slytherin T-shirt
Slytherin head scarf
Nunchucks (Me & the Critters got these.)
Wooden kunai (Me & the Critters got these too.)
Wooden practice sword (We all got one of these.)

Dad:
$50.00 gift card to Wal*Mart [Which he sent one for each Critter too.]

Dan & Renea (Dan’s father & step-mother):
$50.00 [They sent $150.00 for me and the Critters to split…Mum & I had to add a bit to pay for Harley’s Shark Ship (hopefully the thing gets here soon). Plus they also gave Sonja $10.00 & Harley $7.00…A dollar for every year they’ve been around.]

[Sonja & Harley also each got $20.00 each from Mr. Burton…An old teacher of Dan’s from when he was in elementary school…I think it was elementary anyway.] (So yeah…Harley has $77.00 to spend…And I’m sure will take forever to do so. & Sonja has $130.00 to spend…And will probably go through it in nothing flat. She wants an iCat though, a black one, so at least she has some idea where she wants to start, instead of just randomly spending it like she‘s prone to do.)

Got to talk to Todd. *smiles* But still haven’t a clue when I’m going to get to see him. *sigh* L He is so hard to read, I’m always left wondering how he feels & what he’s thinking.
He says it’s hard to get over here in the winter. So I’m guessing I’m not going to see a whole lot of him while there is snow around. [One more reason to hate snow.] And I can, honestly, understand that on some level…One never knows what the weather is going to do, and if it’s going to be driveable. I don’t think he wants to ask me to come out in it…& he can’t really risk getting stuck between here and home/work. I just hope that means once summer and warmer weather come I’ll get to see him a bit more often.
He told me he works New Year’s Eve day (early shift), and has New Year’s Day off. I should have said something about hanging out then…But I didn’t. *sigh* I still fear such being rejected. [Later Mum said I should tell him to rescue me from here for a while. Maybe I’ll manage to get a hold of him between now and then, and see if something can be arranged. *shrugs* Maybe.]
He figures, once some guy at work gets a new job, that he’s going to be working 7 days a week again. [Though he did say something about telling them he can’t do that. Not that it does me any good…Still won’t get to see him.]

[Sometimes Mum is not helpful…Reminding me that I haven’t seen much of him lately. I don’t think she means to…He gets brought up, and it just comes out…It hurts a bit.]

*looks over @ Harley* Or should I say Mutt? *laughs* [Since putting on the coat, he’s declared himself Mutt from the last Indiana Jones movie.]
I was worried he wouldn’t like his ‘trench’ as it is a bit on the big side. The sleeves have to almost be folded in half…There are three snaps, it has to fold back right behind the third snap (which actually works quite well). Usually he freaks out a bit over things that are too big but…He’s pretty much declared he’s going to live in it…& he pretty much has since putting it on. He did take it off for dinner (after Mum suggested he do so, so he wouldn’t get anything on it), and amazingly for bed.

Sonja…Got a set of chains in her stocking, and didn’t even question them…I think she might have actually said ‘cool’ even. *laughs* The Tripp pants were almost the last thing she opened. I’ll have to help her put the chains on after she puts the pants on.

Christmas Eve the serpentine belt on Mum’s truck broke. We spent an hour, in the cold waiting for the wrecker. Her brother showed up right as the wrecker went by. So he brought us home, while the wrecker got turned around then brought the truck home.

Appa isn’t running right either. *sigh* Took him into town after we got back with the truck…He staled right after I started him. (He NEVER stalls!) It was a bit of a fight to get him to stay running…Made it to town…Appa stalled as I pulled into the parking space. Barely got him running to come home…He did start running almost right by the time I got here, but that wasn’t to last.
As of now, he doesn’t want to stay running…Or he revs too high, take your pick. *sigh* Mum dumped two things of dry gas in the tank, hoping that is what’s wrong with him…But thus far, it hasn’t really helped. L

Anyways…I think that’s about it for now…I has stuff I should be doing, I’m sure. Besides…I kind of want to get some solid thoughts in place towards stuff I can work on for Creative Writing when the time comes…I know I’m going to have a heck of a lot of reading to do probably, considering the stack of books I have for Eastern Religions. O.o

*skips off* *trips over toys & wrapping paper* Bloody holiday leftovers anyway. *laughs* 

 *EDIT* *sigh* I don’t know if Harley will be getting his Mega Rig Shark Ship or not.
I e-mailed the place I ordered it, and they said they didn’t have it anymore.
I looked, again, for someplace that is selling it of something less than $150.00!
Found it on another shopping site. Ordered it AGAIN.
Get confirmation e-mail..It’s the same billing name as the LAST place, the one that said they don’t have it anymore!
So…I don’t know…I’ll probably wait another week, send another e-mail to them, only to get another e-mail from them telling me that they don’t have it anymore…And I don’t know what to do then. "
Gods…One more reason to utter hatred in Dan’s direction. If he hadn’t bloody well promised it to Harley over a year ago, wouldn’t be trying to find it now!  *hugs Harley*
I’m trying little boy, I’m trying.
*sigh*