Goats.

I'm actually going to propose to my parents that they count Bhutan as their gift to me for like, the next 3 years. But I know I'll still get earrings and books from 'em anyway. Mom does good gifts and likes shopping.

I actually have a list of stuff for them that I compiled when they were here. I just have to get out and get that stuff. For my brother & co...well, I was going to give them moving moneyhelp and pitch in for new furniture, but then that $$ went to an emergency car purchase loan and I won't see that money back for a bit, so. Kids'll get the usual foo. And CRAP. I forgot to send the SM4 Hubble throw back with my brother. It was even in the car. Feh. Maybe I'll get my parents to let me go in for a share of some new furniture for them.

See! your family does good gifts. Ugh. I have two tshirts from yosemite. Maybe I'll do that, a picture of yosemite and then....? what?

ita, Kat, and Shir FTW with the sleep vibes, thank you. I fell asleep pretty quickly the second time.

The little girl telling her story in French was adorable. The eyes! And the expressiveness.

I don't have any good input on gifts.

I have to figure out my FSA #s this week too. That is why I SHOULD have done paperwork tonight, to figure out how close I was on figures this year.

Gifts my family may get this year: donations, gift certificates for non-items (massages, dinners, netflix, shows), gift certifs to half price books, notecards made from E's art, knit things, unique food items.

Cool frames and pictures of the kids would work for parents.

T just came by to show me this quarter's grades: 85-95! Rock!

Need to call her dad next week about TG catsitting and Obama's inaugural. She and I squeed over the Obamas moving into the WH. About the girls, she was all "they're so little! People have to be nice to them!" And she's an august, what? 13?

Stamp N&G's feet in cloth paint and anoint the Yosemite shirts with them!

Heh-- best quote about last night's Country Music Association Awards:

Even unlikelier first-time CMA performers: Jamaica’s Wailers, who joined Chesney for a medley. “It’s a great pleasure being here -- more than tongue can tell," said Wailers singer Elan Atias. “Country and reggae are very similar.” (From the aroma that preceded them by about 20 feet, the similarity to Willie Nelson was certainly apparent.)

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I am so tempted to make my FB status "is about to tell her son that it will fall off if he doesn't leave it alone."

Ah, children.