At least our store isn't playing Christmas music yet...

[rebecca_in_blue]

Hanukkah is later than usual this year, so it actually will fall during Christmas. I think this will make celebrating it a bit easier. I'm not sure what I'm going to do in future years when it falls at a totally different time of December. But I'll jump off that bridge when I come to it.

On a related note, I've finally come up with a list of things I want this year. (Although I'm not even sure why I bothered, since two people have already bought me gifts, and I don't remember either of them ever asking me what I wanted. Yeah, I have a great feeling about that.)

Rebecca's Christmas Hanukkah List

• Plain Beautiful: The Life of Peggy Ann Garner
• A Tanakh (also called a Torah or a Jewish Bible) with some sort of commentary. There are many different kinds of Tanakhs out there. I'd like one that's a reasonable physical size. I've seen some at temple that are huge, heavy books that you have to hold with both hands!
• A Calvin & Hobbes book that neither Sara nor I has yet. I would really like Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons or Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat.
• Converse shoes (also called Chuck Taylors) in non-black colors. If tha description doesn't ring a bell, they're the shoes that look like this. If you know me, you know that these are my default shoes. I call them "AB shoes" and wear them everywhere. I dream of someday having lots of pairs in all different colors. Please note that I would prefer low-cuts, not high-tops, and I wear a size 8. I think the local Dollar Store carries a few different colored pairs for reasonable prices. That brings us to...
• A shoe holder. I'd prefer the kind that hangs from a clothes bar. Just don't get me the kind that hangs over a door, please - I have no free door to hang it from!
• Dog stickers for a car window. We sell these at my store, both dog and paw print stickers, for very reasonable prices.

Sara insists that I'm a hard person to shop for. I'll add onto this list if more things come to me. A tip for holiday shopping in general: If you buy anything in a store, for heaven's sakes, save your receipts! You'd think most people would already know this, but I'm still pissed at my mom for not only not keeping the receipt for what she gave me last year, but also refusing to tell me where she bought it! Ugh.