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The Christmas Report:

This afternoon my male boss (whose secretary I work for) popped into my cubicle and laid a beautifully-wrapped box of Godiva chocolates on my desk. "Santa Claus came early," he said with his characteristic gentle smile. "And it's no-cal," he joked with a wink, patting me on the shoulder and disappearing as quickly as he had appeared.

Well. I almost cried, I was so touched. He's just such a nice man, always smiling at me and joking in a kindly-uncle sort of way. It's not even the gift itself-- I'm avoiding sweets-- but the gesture was so lovely.

Then, as I popped by my female boss (whom I work directly under)'s desk to drop a Christmas card on her desk (and one in HelloJoeWhaddyaKnow's office), she said, "I know you're leaving for a final now so you won't want to carry this, but don't forget to take it when you come in on Monday." And she opened a drawer and showed me a wrapped gift inside.

So sweet. It put me right in the holiday spirit. They're such nice folks. I'm sorry I had to miss the Christmas party for the final.

Then I got home and, hello, there's a box from one of my old Elfquest friends, Karen. She sends me something every year and I felt immediately guilty because we haven't emailed in so long, and I didn't send Christmas cards to any of my Elfquest friends this year. Not even Tea Rose, whom I actually have been talking to lately. Everything was just so slapped-together and last-minute and I didn't have my updated address book with me, so I just sent cards to a few people. I left the vast majority of people out.

I know Christmas isn't supposed to be about reciprocating, but giving and loving and such and so I'll just feel warm and grateful about these gestures of friendship, but I do wish I'd sent her something.

I've got everything set up for the tree, which I am leaving right now to go get, but I can't find the Nutcracker. I'm worried. If anything happened to Nutcracker I'll be very upset.

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