gifts in progress

Like my friend May, I'm getting a tad excited about Christmas. I know people say I should be more excited about my upcoming wedding (its a 69 day countdown according to my countdown widget) but its Christmas that has gotten me excited. Well, that and the mooncake festival- but only because I love mooncakes, the ones with yolk, thank you very much. My sister and I have taken to sing Christmas carols in the car much to the amusement of our parents who think we're half mad and I've caught myself making gift lists; what to buy for whom and how I'd like to wrap them all and stuff.

Anyway, I was clearing my room earlier today in a bid to make way for having to share my room come November and tarried to keeping the little ceramic metropolitan museum of art (its a pencil holder, for the unitiated). You see, I have a boyfriend that absolutely sucks at buying gifts and this was what he got for me the very first Christmas we spent together. It came in a gorgeously wrapped gold box with matching ribbons and a ornate card that only the NY Metropolitan Museum store can pull off and oh... I was so very excited.... what might it be? Earrings, brooch, antique? No... it was a pencil holder.

I still remember his eager, happy face as I was opening the gift- I'm assuming he must have put in a fair bit of effort to get me something quite expensive, yet within his budget (we were poor students then) from a pretty place in a prettier wrapper that was practical, useful and well, from the NYMpM. I've amassed a Man U t-shirt (original, kids size, no less so I can wear as a baby tee), an industrial fan, a Guess top, a Tiffany's ring, a Sapphire ring... so, I guess we are making progress...


Thankfully....