- Halo on xbox
- A literal, tangible box full of games to get us through the Dark Months
- Warm weather during winter – warm enough to walk outside comfortably. Walks outside, even in the cold
- German chocolate
- Irish cream and maple whiskey
- Roscato (bubbly sweet red wine)
- Charcuterie boards
- Breakfast quesadillas w/ salsa, chips, hot sauce, saur cream, guacamole, cheese dip
- A bowl of pomegranate seeds – hail to the goddess of fertility and death
- Worcestershire sauce
- The sound my dad made when he walked past me by the door to the kitchen and noticed that I was listening to my partner’s heartbeat with one of his stethoscopes
- Stuffed peppers
- Library books
- Christmas lights
- Trinkets!!!!!
- Cinnamon roll coffee creamer in a mug of hot coffee in the morning
- The ability to reach out to any person you love who is inconveniently far away and talk to them when you miss them
- Spending time with family at the holidays
- Spoons
- Cat
- Edgar Allan Poe: The Ultimate Collection
- Mornings (also evenings) with my partner
- Jigsaw puzzles. Especially the one with the koi pond.
- Sudoku, crosswords, logic puzzles, anagrams, cryptograms, coloring books.
- The promise I made to my little sister that for as long as I am up and about and still breathing she will never run out of cooking oil or salt. This year I gave her glass bead mushroom earrings, bracelets, almond extract for baking, a scarf, a throw blanket, a lavender scented candle, slippers, and a glass liquid measuring cup. I spoil her more than I spoil most everyone else.
- Cowboy hats
- Chex mix, snickerdoodles, and frosted sugar cookies: the homemade holy trinity
- The pineapple we got my sister’s boyfriend for Christmas.
- He got her a bread maker. We are all about to enjoy the results.
- My sister’s stick and poke tattoos
- Christmas movies: Scrooge, It’s A Wonderful Life
- Winter break between semesters
- Blankets!!!
- A playlist of all our favorite songs from this year
- All the Christmas cards that I sent out, and all the cards that I got back (yours is on the way, if you haven’t received it already)
- We have always had a dining room table but now we finally have dining room chairs at the table. We’ll likely keep the piano bench for working on puzzles.
- Books
- Music library
- Philosophy & math
- Spooky podcasts
- True crime stories
- Murphy, who is goode
- Old family pictures.