This year's Christmas and birthday list

• Wallacks, Omar de Serres, Amazon or Algonquin bookstore gift certificates
• USB hub
• teas: peach honeybush, cherry/berry herbal, pomegranate rooibos
• filleting knife for fish
• travel mug with that's approximately a normal cup size
• drawing or watercolours books or lessons
• a cushy footstool or two -- one for living room (golds, reds, and browns), one for tv room (black/espresso, brick red, cream, or navy)
• peppermint essential oil to use in cosmetics making
• rip our CD collection to MP3s for me
• replace part or all of our tape collection with MP3s however you see fit
• one of those teeny whisks
• a double boiler
• silicone muffin pans
• pyrex casseroles with matching lids (we have unmatched ones)
• rectangular pyrex casserole sized for 2-4 person batches of lasagna
• chauffeur a shopping trip for computer backup hardware
• chauffeur a window shopping trip for a new office chair
• help install the ceiling fan that's sitting in a closet
• something to hold triangles and stencils on the side of my drafting board but which doesn't interfere with the parallel rule clip