Care Package #2

Contents:

- Sweatshirt hoodie from Nordstrom, brown and owly

- Chuao Gourmet Hot Chocolate, Abuela (if you haven't tried Chuao, wtf are you waiting for?!)

- Korean seaweed

- Pocky, strawberry

- Dermalogica face cream

- Don DVD (swoonworthy)

- Japanese sleeve protectors for dishwashing (a must have, already my second pair)

- $40 cash for spawn

Thank you, Emu! We love you!

Care Package #1

Contents:

- Season 3 DVDs of "The Office" ("Sometimes you have to be the boss of dancing!")

- PSP game, Crush

- 10-pack Junior Mints

- Snak-Saks Nutter Butter Bites

- Snak-Saks Mini Oreo Bite Size (hey, Nabisco copywriters: make up your fing mind--is it "bites" or "bite size"?)

- KitKat Assorted Minis

- 8-pack Reese's Peanut Butter Cups

- 8-pack Fun Size Peanut M&Ms

- 2 boxes Butterfinger Stixx (Stixx and Snaks may break my back but words will never...)

- 2 boxes Crunch Stixx

- 8 fun size Snickers

- 2 packs of Twix 4ToGo (doncha mean "Twixx"?)

- Hostess Ho Hos

- Hostess Ding Dongs

- Hostess Sno balls (Dongs, Hos, and balls--I'm so white-trashing it this weekend. And why is "balls" lowercase? Because they hang lower? Oh how I long to live in a world with capitalization consistency...)

Thank you, titi Wa! We love you!

My Swag Bag

With two impending visits in November by four people, I've calculated a total of 200 possible pounds for checked-in baggage, of which surely a pound or ten could be set aside for little ol' me? So with those extremely selfish thoughts firmly in place, I proceeded to create a list for what we in Hollywood refer to as the swag bag, the ultimate in party-favors gifting.

Take heart, dear family, this is mostly tongue-in-cheek. Your presence is all I ever need to warm the cockles of my cold, cold heart.

- Diorshow mascara
- Aveda lip tint, "spice"
- Wasabi tamaried almonds from Trader Joe's
- A package or two of Just Mangoes (unsweetened, unsulfured) from Trader Joe's
- Emergen-C, any flavor
- Nico wafers

- Annie's Naturals salad dressing, Goddess flavor (as opposed to Green Goddess, which is like totally gross)
- A pound or two of nutritional yeast flakes (from any health-food store)

- Maggi seasoning, a small bottle

- A bag of Reese's miniature peanut butter cups

- Any issue of Entertainment Weekly or Vanity Fair

- Hostess cupcakes, the 100-calorie version (don't ask)

- Altoids peppermint gum (cheapest from Trader Joe's)

- A bag of chocolate chips

- Cans of Maesri brand curry paste, panang or red

- A jar of Patak biryana curry paste

- Maple syrup, pure grade A (cheapest from Trader Joe's)

- Dermologica, daily microfoliant