Since you’ve asked… my Christmas List!

I’m bad at the Christmas list thing… probably because I overthink it like almost everything else.  I always feel like I’m saying “gimme gimme” when I write one. If I make it too short, I’ll know exactly what I’m getting (that takes some of the fun out of gift-exchanging!), and my mother will come up with a dozen other things to get me (cat calendars, dish scrubbers, high-efficiency lightbulbs, etc.  *ahem*)  to fill up space under the tree. So here goes: assuming I can’t get peace on earth like we all really want, I’ll settle for stuff. :) My official Christmas list: * Office supplies - (just like the display at Office Max counters says, the average teacher spends over a thousand dollars on his/her own classroom every year). I could really use 1″ and 2″ binders (the kind that you can slip a sheet of paper into the front cover of) and the plastic sheet protectors that go in them. * DVDs of TV shows - 30 Days, Seinfeld, The Simpsons, The Sopranos, The OC (so sue me, we all have weird guilty pleasures), the Cosby Show, South Park… just about anything to make up for not having cable!  * Stuff for home: these towels to replace my old ones that are falling apart, this candle thing for our fireplace,  these dishes to match the ones C got me for grad school graduation, any of these pots and pans (or these) to replace my old-and-falling-apart ones, a new coffee maker, vegetarian cook books (I’m a big fan of the Moosewood ones)…. * Gift cards for work clothes - The Limited, Ann Taylor, Nordstrom (they have really great clearance racks!), really anywhere would be fine.   * a Nintendo DS!   * And if  you happen to be a random millionaire reading this list and wanting to seriously make a girl’s holidays, please consider this fourth-floor condo in my neighborhood, something sparkly, or two plane tickets to somewhere I can be by water and get massages and pedicures.  So those are some ideas.  :)