[ SECRET POST #4359 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4359 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Katara from Avatar the Last Airbender]


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[Queer Eye, season 2 episode 7 "Bedazzled"]


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[Buzzfeed Unsolved]


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[Rahul from The Great British Bake Off series 9]


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[Father Brown Mysteries]


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[Voltron, Keith]













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Re: Holiday Shopping

[(Anonymous)]

I’ve bought stuff for my aunt and uncle and only friend, and now I just need to buy my not-really-cousin (my dad’s younger brother’s wife’s nephew) his requisite $50 amazon giftcard, make fudge, and maybe buy small things for coworkers and distant relatives.

I want to try making homemade Mozartkugeln instead of fudge, but I’m not sure if I can do three kinds of marzipan. I love Mozartkugeln but they’re an expensive imported candy in the US and I’ve only ever had the ones from Cost Plus World Market.

My aunt (dad’s brother’s wife) apologized for not having enough serving spoons at Thanksgiving so I bought her a bunch of olivewood ones, a Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club reusable shopping bag (she loves the song) to put them in, and some small jokey stuff. Then I saw Trader Joe’s had olivewood salt-cellars for $12 and got one too, even though I’ve never known anyone who uses salt-cellars—but it’s pretty and she drinks a lot of tea, so I thought she could use it as a sugar bowl.

I never know what to get my uncle (dad’s remaining brother) because he collects obscure records and weird pop-culture knickknacks, so he’s getting a windup Trumpzilla toy that growls and stomps around and has a flashing light in the mouth so it looks like it’s breathing fire, and a windup hi-five—it’s an open hand that waddles around.

I got my friend a phone case with “A Midsummer Night’s Fever” and Shakespeare striking the John Travolta pose on it, a black cat mug, and a black cat chalkboard hanging thing.

When we were kids my mom would make stockings for us both every year (my friend’s dad and my dad were friends as kids who lived across the street from each other and also her home life kind of sucked, so she almost grew up at our house) and I took over stocking duty in my teens and started making them for my friend and my mom (and myself.) This’ll be the second Christmas without my mom. :-(

I go a bit nuts every year trying to fit as much as possible into our stockings and probably spend as much on stocking stuffers as regular presents, if not more (and it’s an excuse to buy myself stuff since I don’t get many presents because most of my family’s dead and I’ve just got the one friend.)

Aside from tangerines, walnuts in the shell, candy canes, and chocolate money, I put in lindt truffles, chocolate covered marzipan, violet mints, those reusable shopping bags that fold up to fit in a pouch, lip balm, novelty ice cube trays, silly/nerdy socks, and then whatever other small nerdy stuff I can cram in.

This year my friend’s getting a “perfect man” ice cube tray that makes little frozen flexing silhouettes, a set of Disney villain socks, a Le Chat Noir bag and two more with allover cat prints (she loves her black cat), a meowing cat bag clip, cat magnets, a cat-face gel eye mask, a cat-shaped eraser, cat printed sticky notes, a black ammonite fossil, a Shakespeare action figure, a shot glass with a bullet hole through it, Jane Austen temporary tattoos, disco ball ornaments, nihilism soap (black, unscented, with “There’s nothing. Like it.” on the wrapper), Shake-spearmint and National Embarrass-mint (with Trump caricature) tins, and Midsummer Night’s (cherry flavored) and Impeach-mint (with Trump and “worst president ever” slogan) lip balm.

I got the same lip balms, the Shakespeare mints, some habañero flavored mints with the Joker on the tin (I’m not a Joker fan but I put cayenne on everything), an enamel plague doctor pin, a plain black ornament with “atheist” on it, reusable bags with Degas “The Star” ballerina art, one of Monet’s Waterlilly series, and an anonymous peacock and flower painting, a tiny working magic 8 ball, a little wooden labyrinth puzzle, a replacement Shakespearean Insults bandaid tin (that I use as a wallet), a tiny Shakespeare cloth doll/magnet, a chunk of amethyst, a unicorn ice cube tray (nobody has dragon ones dammit), and socks with dragons (x2), bats, plague doctors, and an ouija board print on them.

My uncle (mom’s remaining brother) and his husband stopped giving presents years ago because they were so well off they had everything they needed and didn’t want us to feel like we had to get them anything. My uncle gives me his old iStuff when he gets a new phone/tablet, though. I’d make them cookies or fudge but they’re not big on sweets or unheathy stuff, which is most all the food I’d consider present-worthy.