bloodyrosemccoy | Advent Calendar ~ Day 11! (Reply)

~~11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received?~~

I’ve never received a truly bad gift, I don’t think. So I am going to change this.

11. Weirdest Christmas gift you ever received?

That would be the cassette tape in each of us kids’ stockings last year. Each tape was a recording of a certain Famous Cartoon Character talking to one of us, personally. The character told me how cool it was that I was in Africa and that he heard I was interested in languages and that he hoped I was a good girl even though I was all grown up now.

See, the voice actor for that character was a patient of Dad’s. And the guy was stunned that we knew who he was, including his lesser-known roles. (“Are you kidding, Dad? He was that guy in that one episode of that show!* AWESOME!”) And happy. And so he made us each a tape to sort of thank us for the recognition.

It was odd and sweet and I loved it. Thank you, voice actor!

And now for the Week o’ Happiness! What has made me happy today? Why, finding my old pirate story and reading through what I got done! I’m not even wincing at my writing. I should write an ending for my little hobbit pirate.

Also my permanent account! I gotta get me a Christmas icon.

*I was actually more specific, but patient privacy on the blog.