The Gift of $3 Pens

It's officially Christmas Eve now, which I find to be exciting. Every year, I have a plethora of Christmas celebrations because my family is more divided than Korea.

Wave to North Korea, kids.

Mere hours ago, I had X-mas at mom's house. It is always a small event with just gifts between my mom, my sister, myself, her husband, and his kids. Now, later today, I have Christmas Eve at Gramma Eda's. Tradition, folks. We'll get there in the afternoon, have a giant meal, and do more gifts. Then we spend the night there. In the morning, we drive the 10 blocks to Gramma Mary's house for Christmas Day. Again, large portions of holiday food. This tends to result in holiday indigestion and a lot of holiday pain.

Holiday antacids.

Finally (I hope), there is one more celebration on the 26th, that of my step-dad's family. I may not attend that one this year as I have to work on the night of the 25th (lame, but I get paid a lot). So that is my Christmas schedule projection.

I got a little bit ahead of myself, though. What I really want to talk about is one of the gifts I opened tonight. As you may or may not know, I recently posted a blog lamenting the fact that I ran out of my favorite pen brand and could no longer afford to sustain a lifestyle of fine writing. I had fallen from grace and started using hideous Bic pens (I just threw up in my mouth). Well, no more! My problems have been solved due to a generous gift of my favorite $3 pens!

A tear-jerking sight.

Apparently my sister reads my blog and now I really WILL have a merry Christmas! And oh how beautiful the scrawl will look on all the thank-you notes I send out after the holidays! The only thing that could make me more joyful at this moment is, well...perhaps a kitten!

Way ahead of you.

Cody M. Logeland