Merchandise for Christmas...

[Carole Estes]

No: HPFGUIDX 7838


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ebony " <ebonyink at hotmail.com>


> --- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "voicelady" <voicelady at m...> wrote:
> > I didn't receive a single HP item!  Everybody is already cowed by
> the size of my collection and was afraid to buy me anything, because
> they were unsure of what I did and didn't have.  On the other hand,
> my husband and I received some lovely handpainted end tables!
>
> Hi Voicelady and all:
>
> I thought I was the only one!  No, I didn't get HP stuff for
> Christmas, either.  My best gift IMO was a Winnie the Pooh chocolate
> set for two... one of my students gave me that.  The rest was
> practical, grownup stuff.  :(  Glad to see that Scott, Penny, and
> others had very Harry Christmases, though.
>
> Since half of my friends/family thinks my HP obsession is a weird
> passing childhood-regression phase (including my sweetheart), and the
> other half thinks the books are literally and figuratively sinful, of
> course I can't count on any of them to get me stuff like that.
> That's why this working girl has built up her collection on her own.
> Piece... by... piece!

I'm sorry to hear about your serious gift misfortunes Ebony and Jeralyn....

I, on the other hand, didn't get anything that wasn't Harry Potter...well, I
did get one thing for my husband that I shared that wasn't HP, but I'm not
telling you guys about it!

Let's see I got:

GoF and PoA on tape (my first opportunity to hear the books on tape)
HP Trivia Game
Mystery at Hogwarts Game
Set of 3 Journals (in which my first draft of ASA will now be written rather
than the skanky spiral notebooks I've been using)
HP Stationary set
The puzzle with Harry and Hagrid going to Harry's Gringotts Vault.

Then I got my 7yo
A Gringotts Bank (gotta try to get him to save)
A Hogwarts Journal that guides you to recording various memories

So it was a very Harry Christmas for me, and given I had gotten myself
almost no HP merchandise before this I feel like I'm catching up.

YAY!  BTW I enjoyed the Mystery at Hogwarts game.  Brian and I played it
this morning...Harry administered a sleeping potion in the Herbology
classroom!

carole