Today's comes from my morning read of Towleroad again. It is Miss Coco Peru and her last-minute quest to find some Panetoni for her neighbors. If you are not aware - it is a boxed Italian fruitcake that is heavy and lacking by itself, but actually makes a great French Toast when soaked in an egg/ rum baste. Her list includes Armenians, Indians and a gay man in what must be an eclectic Jersey neighborhood. She even has her naughty list of who she will NOT be buying for - the gay boys who never wave back at her. Her pilgrimage is comic as she hits a local store and walks out. Then a Walgreens which seems to have everything she does not need. And finally a great shout out to Trader Joe's which has exactly what she is looking for but overwhelms her and she leaves empty handed.
I gravitate to her frustrations this year as I came up quite empty on much of my shopping as well. I thought I had a great idea to assemble stockings for all. But finding the stockings themselves was not an easy task as I seemed to buy more and more of less and less to fill them up. A noble effort but still feel like I rate a D+ on my efforts. The ultimate smack was the mailing cost which likely amounted to more than the gifts themselves. Bah Humbug?
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