<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Sithy Things]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://aggiesprite.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[LC Aggie Sith]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://aggiesprite.wordpress.com/author/aggiesprite/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Obligatory Best and Worst Presents of Christmas&nbsp;2014]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>Hubby kept asking me what I wanted for Christmas. I&#8217;m at the age where I don&#8217;t need anything, but he is at the age where skipping on giving me a gift is downright dangerous. It never fails. I write a Santa&#8217;s List™ and you would think it&#8217;s written in Sanskrit from the way my family reacts. Again, what is so difficult about giving me PJs or knives or wineglasses?? In his defense he wanted to give me something I could use, and also something that I didn&#8217;t already own.</p>
<p><em>Behold the Precious!!!!</em></p>
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<p>He gave me the Hoodie Footie, not the gal. I have to say, I love that piece of cotton candy wannabe fluff. I had one a few years back but gave it to my German friend, who needed it waaaaay more than I did because, GERMANY. I admit there have been days when I wore it all day during the holidays. I am not ashamed. I love it with the burning of a thousand suns, though I am glad it&#8217;s not hot like a thousand suns because I want to keep snuggling in it and even call it Georgette.</p>
<p>That was the Best of this year. Normally I stop there, because I firmly believe there&#8217;s no such thing as a bad present. But this year tested the limit.</p>
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<p>That&#8217;s a mini masher. Not exactly a Worst gift. But it&#8217;s hard to appreciate it when it bent on first use, while using it to mash avocados. I wish I could say it was my indomitable strength, but I am trying to save y&#8217;all from spewing all over your keyboards. Still, better to be thought of than be passed over, right?</p>
<p>And what were your best and worst gifts this Christmas? 😀</p>
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