What Kind of Witchery Is This?

I literally didn’t want anything this Christmas. I still have Google Music (under the family plan so everyone in the fam gets it as well as commercial-free YouTube) and I purchased ESPN/Sports package so I could watch my fall sports (which I canceled last week.) I’m drowning in stuff so I didn’t want anything. Besides, I have my obsessions that I indulged for many years and I’m now trying to use/purge. My wife and kids still have other ideas, and if nothing else, I have to chuckle at what they did get me.

“What kind of witchery is this?” was my response when I stumbled upon something on YouTube. I had to ask Tracy what it was. “That’s a Bath Bomb.” I had to watch it a couple of times just to understand what I was seeing. It seems most of the female gender knows more about it than I do practically, but I am interested in the chemical makeup, the feeling as it dissolves in one’s hand. Madsen gifted me a couple of those.

“Here Dad.” Was Bennet’s comment when he placed a heavy box on my lap. He just handed me a gift-wrapped case of Diet Dr. Pepper. “We know how important that is to you.” was Tracy’s remark when I unwrapped it.

“I hope you like them, Dad.” Ellie smiled. I had just unwrapped 4 LED bulbs. I’m honestly not sure where that obsession came from or if it even qualifies. I like going to the bulb section of Home Depot. I rarely buy anything though. I have a collection of bulbs, I must admit. I have a lot of 100W incandescents that I bought before you couldn’t buy them as the 100W fluorescents sucked at the time. The LEDs are much nicer so I miscalculated that need. (We only have one fixture that uses them, the garage.) I have a lot of other CFLs because I found some screaming deals on them and we were going through them pretty quickly. I still am not sure if they last longer than incandescents. Anyway, Ellie picked up on that and now I have 4 more LEDs.

Tracy gave me a board game that I’ve been looking at for many months, Tiny Epic Galaxies. They’ve come down in price too so it was a very good choice. And she also fed into my writing implement obsession buying me a box of Pilot pens. I loved that brand back in college. My favorite pencil is also a Pilot but I know they don’t have that particular kind any longer. Still, the old box of 12 that must have been moldering away on a shelf for the last 30 years or so is appreciated. (I carry 2 that I picked up in college in my backpack.)

Not a super haul, but at least I’m understood by my family. I guess that is more important than things anyway.