It looks like Navidad will be seriously trimmed down compared to last year. Since el Chileno and I broke up, it seems odd to invite his friends and family to a themed Christmas eve dinner like I did last year (funny so many of the poet/artists friends of his and allegedly of mine haven’t said one word to me about the breakup, neither has his family- so much for artistic solidarity or Christian caring).

I never worry about my chicas getting gifts, since my familia more than takes care of them.

I feel like I am too old to ask for presents and I never expect anything anyway, and not in a bad way pero if I were to sit on Santa’s lap (que fresca) and ask for regalos, I would have the real list and the fantasy list.

Real Things I Want for Navidad

• A new lease for the apartment
• The ceiling fixed in the bedroom
• money to help pay for rent and food and bills
• trader joe’s gift cards
• a babysitter
• justicia
  

Fantasy Things I Want for Navidad

• An Iphone
• A digital camera (you all will benefit from the half-nekkid pictures)
• plane tickets
• a new laptap
• a new vibrator (I am single again after all)
• family memberships to museums for the chicas and I
• justicia