I am the first to admit that I can be kind of an oddball. My tastes: eclectic. My moods: all over the place. To sum up this weirdness, I’m gonna show you my two favorite gifts which I’ve recently received, from two of my good friends… friends who know my strange tastes.
First is a sweet little something that Heidi brought back for me from a trip she took to Seattle several months back. Get ready for some (awesome!) geek-itude:
If you don’t know what this is, shame on you. It’s the Enterprise (NCC-1701), made from hammered copper. It is possibly one of the most thoughtful gifts ever… because — honestly – a hammered copper Enterprise is not something you get for someone unless you KNOW that they’ll totally dig it. Most people would say “What the crap…?”, especially if they pulled it out of the gift bag upside down…
The second sweet gift is from my BFF, Diana. (Are you sick of me saying “BFF”? I do it just to annoy you.) She gave it to me just a couple of days ago, when we got together to see “Becoming Jane”. And yes, it was the second time I saw that movie. And no, it won’t be the last. That’s one to own… Anyway, Diana and her husband, Porter, went to a Renaissance festival a few weeks back and she picked me up this:
I love fairies. Love them. I want to be one. And yeah, I know I’m supposed to be a grown up. I buy my daughter fairy things just so I can look at them and play with them when she’s not looking. I tell her she likes fairies, when in fact she is kind of neutral on fairies. I’m ordering a DNA test to determine if she is actually my daughter…
This box is so tiny and precious. It is just big enough to fit my wedding ring inside. So when I do my lotion regimen at night, I take off the tiny lid (with my pinkie finger extended) and put in my tiny ring, and put the tiny lid back on. I almost have to use tweezers, it’s so stinkin precious.
So there is me, in a nut shell. And a nut shell is appropriate, because I am clearly a nut.
As a side note: I’m thinking of writing some Star Trek fan lit… a story where Picard and the gang find a Class M planet inhabited by fairies.
What?
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holy crap! a hammered copper enterprise! wowie, brave friend to buy you that. so glad you like it.
Comment by kate — September 8, 2007 @ 8:23 pm
From one, dare I say ‘nerd’ to another, there’s nothing wrong with these obsessions. I tell myself that all the time.
Comment by Mama Milton — September 9, 2007 @ 6:37 am
Clearly I’m in the land of…well, I’ll tread carefully because I like you and the other commenters. That hammered copper Enterprise sure looks special!
The fairies I can get behind; I am all about building fairy houses and fairy salads. Even my son digs that stuff (um…).
Enjoy your treasures
Comment by stephanie — September 9, 2007 @ 8:12 am
I didn’t know that you like fairies. It must be a DNA thing because I don’t even have girls and the kids playroom walls have fairies on them. I can justify it though, because I have girls in my daycare. I hate living so far away!! I don’t even know things that you collect. I’m a crappy sister!
Comment by Sam — September 9, 2007 @ 5:36 pm
At Kindermusik recently, we were singing the Good Morning Song. It goes..”When dogs get up in the morning they always say ‘Good Day.’ Woof Woof Woof Woof, that is what they say…” and so on. After we sang it once with “dogs,” the teacher let each student choose something. One child chose flamingos. Another picked a pig. Julia chose “fairies.” Another little girl told her that fairies weren’t an appropriate choice.
That little girl was sorry. Very sorry.
My daughter likes fairies, too. Nothing wrong with it.
Comment by Leslie — September 10, 2007 @ 5:15 pm