I had a really nice Christmas. The season is all about giving, and I love finding gifts for my family and friends. That said, I received a lot of incredible gifts from so much of my family.
One item, from my wonderful daughter, is a really nice travel mug, and I've used it just about everyday since Christmas Day. It keeps my coffee hot for hours. In fact, I filled it with coffee before we went to Busch Gardens Christmas Town, in Williamsburg, VA, in the morning, and it sat in our vehicle in the parking lot for seven hours on a day when the temperature never went above the teens, and it was still warm!
Another cool gift, also from my daughter, is "The Complete Peanuts Family Album," a comprehensive guide to Charles M. Schulz's comic strip characters, with text by Andrew Farago. I've spent hours perusing the book, and it includes many obscure characters only appeared in a handful of strips, or maybe in a Peanuts TV special or movie, as well as the more popular personalities, like Good Ol' Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and Linus and Lucy Van Pelt. There are pages devoted to each of these characters, and one of my favorite is for Schroeder, the piano playing, Beethoven loving, Lucy hating, catcher on Charlie Brown's baseball team. What I discovered is, while I can relate to some of the personality quirks of many of the characters, it was Schroeder who I feel I is most like me. The book includes quotes from the more popular characters, and these quotes provide wonderful insight. The one for Schroeder states, "Studying poetry ruins the poems." I can relate to that, and agree wholeheartedly. I've met a few Lucy's, as well, who can't understand why Schroeder doesn't like her. My Lucy's feel much the same. I'm very picky about who I like, and a woman who is too forward with me, as Lucy is with him, is a huge turn-off.
There were many more wonderful gifts, but these are just a few highlights. My daughter is awesome.
Stay warm out there, and have a wonderful evening, everyone!
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