Part of the fun of being an officer's kid around Christmas is being drafted to help in things that aren't standing kettles in the bitter cold.

The best one: angel tags.

These are cards we hang up on Christmas trees in conspicuous places-- post office, grocery stores, the mall-- and each one has a name, an age, a gender, and a desired gift item. People pull down the tags, buy a gift, and deliver it with the tag taped on. It's a nice program, and how most of the gifts we distribute get here.

The fun part is, we don't actually write real kids on them. We space out ages and divide the tags into half boys, half girls. And then we need names. :D

Some of the highlights of this year: most of the characters from Heroes, and most of the actors; a bunch from Supernatural, half the characters from Pushing Daisies, all the characters from Chuck, and a whole bunch of my LJ friends. \o/ (omgimnaked, I hope you like Dora the Explorer. And ruedifference, you want a bike. xD)

It is harder to come up with 150 toys than you think. Especially because I have no flippin' clue what kids under 12 like. o.o;

I'm done with the name/age part, and Mom's going to help with the toy part when she comes back up.

Later today, we are going to the Carousel Mall (again \o/) and then we are picking up Julia from the train station. It has been weird not having her around. The house is so... quiet. And no one comes into my room to pester socialize with me, except Xena.

omg, I want a nap so bad. ;_;


ALSO: when are these permanent accounts going to go on sale? I want my 50 extra userpics, kthx!