Shoes, Ships, and Sealing Wax

Ginger ale and saltines

The breakfast (and lunch) of champions...bilious champions, anyway.

Actually, by the time I finished my lunchtime sleeve of saltines, I was feeling well enough to go to work, but why bother? It's been more appealing to putter around the house. I cleared out some recycling...I'm now receiving about thirty catalogs a day in the mail...and looking at the catalogs prompted me to begin the Christmas shopping.

By that, I mean that I ordered a Snoopy Washington Nations Pez dispenser for my 85-year-old great aunt. Laugh if you want, but this is the perfect gift: she loves Snoopy, she loves baseball, she loves Washington, and due to recent complications with her kidneys, she can't eat chocolate. Pez, I think, is very low in potassium.

Now I only need to find gifts this perfect for twenty more people and I'm all set.