Spreading Warmth.

Yesterday I was closer to speechless than I have been in quite some time... Two of my friends here stopped by to give me a gift at some point... First a bit about gifts, I used to go all out when I had a significant other, when it came to Xmas, birthdays, monthly anniversaries, you name it. I was pretty obsessive about holidays and such. Since I've been riding the single train, I've never really been into the whole requirement of gift giving for holidays thing. Go ahead, call me Scrooge or whatever, or cheap or something, but it isn't that I never give anyone anything ever, I just tend to do it at random times. If I see something in a store that's perfect for someone in July, I buy it and give it to them like that day. I think hiding stuff for months just to stack up in advance for future holidays is ridiculous. So anyway, a lot of the time I receive things for people I have nothing in return, and that makes me feel bad. I just make sure to hit those people who they're least expecting it with something to brighten their day.

Now back to one of the coolest gifts I've gotten in a while. This really warm fuzzy blanket with a beautiful wolf pattern on it, and even two fuzzy wolf pillows to go with it. After all the whining I've been doing about not having pillows for the futon, and not actually doing anything about it, I guess they got sick of hearing me complain. :/ The color scheme even matches the futon, which is sweet, and it's now become my warmth creator of choice for my random midmorning and afternoon naps. I totally wasn't expecting something this awesome when I heard they had gotten me something, the brownie points count in their section of my book just went up by like a berjillion. They were already cool people to begin with, but dang.

They even threw in glow in the dark dolphins for my ceiling, so my place isn't qutie so boring at night. :) Speaking of which, I was goaded into (okay I thought it was a cool idea too) putting up xmas lights in my room, which turned out pretty neat. One of the above friends helped me out, so I've got matching green lights around the bedframe and white one's all around the window. Of course I put this up only like three days before I was leaving for home, but I figure I'll leave them up til like March or I get bored of hearing people complain. I think they look neato anyway.

So yeah, my friends are the coolest ever. Or should I say warmest ever.