{"id":796,"date":"2004-12-29T09:25:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-29T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/796"},"modified":"2004-12-29T09:25:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-29T13:25:00","slug":"the-haul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/796","title":{"rendered":"“The Haul”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wow. ‘s big box of gifts for me? Full of CORDLESS POWER TOOLS.<\/p>\n

I can now tear down and reassemble the world. Cordlessly. <\/p>\n

DeWalt’s cheerful yellow reciprocating saw, circular saw, hammer drill and gooseneck spotlight, all with rechargeable, interchangeable batteries. And drill bits.<\/p>\n

Also? A gift certificate to get a spa treatment at Aveda. <\/p>\n

Talk about appealing to a girl’s yin and yang. <\/p>\n

Mom got me some lovely treats, too, including a knit orange hat and scarf, which I wore to work today, some lip gloss, and the most lovely gift of all, her assistance with sanding and repainting the kitchen cupboards. \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n

My cousins were awesome, with and Jason’s gift just arriving yesterday in the mail – a call to arms for me to embrace my inner housewife, with Nigella Lawson’s scrumptious baking cookbook ‘How to be a Domestic Goddess’<\/a> (I love it!) and a crazy ‘as seen on TV’ chocolate treat-making machine (obesity may be in the cards for me; perhaps I shall just give up resisting and go along with it’s evil plan willingly). <\/p>\n

and Cait sent e-mail gift certificates to Justin and I, which I just discovered recently due to long neglect of my inbox at home in lieu of scrambling to read books for class. I feel bad, because I sent Keira something (did you get it yet cuz?) but I thought Caius and Cait had the whole “extreme poverty, no exchanging gifts please” thing going on, and since they are in a place where me mailing them something would cost more on their end in import taxes than it cost me to buy and send, I’m kinda stumped. I can’t even really get them a gift certificate online, since the same problem applies to futureshop.ca or anywhere else, and I obviously can’t get them anything that they can pick up IN the Bahamas. If anyone has any good ideas, let me know. Until then, I’ll stew in gifting guilt and keep my thinking cap on. <\/p>\n

Justin’s Mom and Stepdad got me the fifth boxed set of MST3K, which was totally unexpected and uncalled for and awesome and I am just over the moon with it!!! They also got Justin a Gamecube, which he and I have been gleefully playing Double Dash on whenever we get a free moment off work (which is rare).<\/p>\n

Must go – have spent enough time evading work with this post already. Hope everyone had a festive and fatmaking holiday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wow. ‘s big box of gifts for me? Full of CORDLESS POWER TOOLS. I can now tear down and reassemble the world. Cordlessly. DeWalt’s cheerful yellow reciprocating saw, circular saw, hammer drill and gooseneck spotlight, all with rechargeable, interchangeable batteries. And drill bits. Also? A gift certificate to get a spa treatment at Aveda. Talk […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consciousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}