Hey Fledermaus, in case you were wondering, I was your secret santa. You should have gotten a package in the mail today, but if not then it should arrive on Friday. I tried to get it there on Christmas Eve so I don't know if you got it or not, but I hope you like it

The Mushrooms

they rise like bread
full of old, earthy smells
they rise one by one,
devouring the trees.
They rise great and small
as tasty snacks or high perches
They rise bright red
but turn out white below
They rise strong
and wilt within a day

Seed's Poetry Collection

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This is not a true and proper entry: I could say more, about the beauty of falling snow or the events of the day, or the smell of mushrooms. I could. But I feel just like...letting my heart ramble.

I was happy to see Walter again. Our relationship is/was sometimes very temptuous, but in its own way, it is/was also very sincerely caring. I like to think so, anyway. I never quite knew where I stood with Walter: some days he was angry at me, or jealous, and sometimes he was overbearingly affectionate. Overall, the emotional climate was both warm and stormy, like a tropic sea. I was never wholly clear on how I felt: a little like his sidekick, a little like it was my job to get him to behave just a little, a little like a close friend, and a little like a fawn playing beside a great statue. Perhaps it was because Walter is/was so forthrite and so dramatic that he often became/becomes difficult to understand: that is itself both frustrating and amusing at the same time, which is exactly right. Even if I was a little frustrated, for reasons more mine than his, I was -- on the whole -- happy to see him. and wistful-sad-nostalgic, too.

I was also happy to see him and 21 together. There's something about watching the two of them that's special: a feeling of intense connection, of something... You know the feeling you get when you see golden sunlight pouring through a rain so fine it's almost mist, or when a flight of white birds, thick as a cloud, takes flight in unison, or that of finding the first leaf of spring uncurling, that transluscent green, all soft and moist and vulnerable? and the world is holding its breath, because that moment right there is somehow magical and rare and...special. Complete without being total, pure without simplicity. That's the feeling I get watching those two, when Walter's feelings become crystal-clear and everything has that special feeling to it. I was very happy to see that.

I went into work at 8:00 at my grocery store. At first everything was ok - work was slow and I just had to bring in a few carts, but then after a little while, I got tired of that. I couldn't bag because we had a charity group bagging for tips.

Alrighty, so THEN it suddenly gets crazy. We get a lot of people, but I'm still pulling the same amount of carts from the lot. The carts slowly diminish as we have more people come in, and then I was working like crazy to keep them in. So after 3 hours, my manager comes and is like, "Hey, go cut 20 fruit cups and a bunch of party trays for Produce!"

So I go to Produce and start working on that. I get 3/4 of the fruit cups done when he comes again and is like, "Hey, we can't keep the carts in. You gotta go push carts again." The Produce Manager ended up finishing the fruit cups as I go back to the front and find out there are absolutely no carts available for the customers.

I then have to find carts off of the parking lot, and I'll find 5 or 6 at a time, and bring them into the store only to have 3 or 4 of them get taken immediately. Repeat this process over and over and over until it was time for me to go.

Yeah, today was tough. Yesterday was almost as bad, a little easier than this, but I'm absolutely relieved that I don't have to do that again (at least for a long time).

So anyway, if I don't log on tomorrow, I hope everyone has a great holiday. I can't wait for tomorrow - not only do I love recieving presents, but I also can't wait to see how my family reacts to what I got them. I did all of my shopping in October, so I can't quite remember everything I got for them, but it should be fun anyway. And this'll be Brandy's first Christmas with us, so I know she's excited too.

Also I'd like to thank Emily for her Secret Santa gift! I wasn't sure what to expect! XD

In case you didn't know

Anyways, show your fawny-deer in all their glory!!! Mwahaha!

I'll update this later with mine

MERRY CHRISTMAS DARLINGS.

c:

-anxiously awaiting her Secret Santa-

Hope y'all's Christmas is good, and maybe I'll be on tomorrow after everything's out of the way to hear about it in person. cB

Alsolol. I got my mom a webcam. And she opened it. Technically it was for her and me lolso. I'll try to set it up soon. c: Tra la la almost time to go, merry christmas! <333

Aeros: Merry Christmas to everyone! c:
Pan: LOSDLOLOSFLOFLSFOLOL MERRYCHRISTMASHEEHEEHAHAHOHO.
Tuna: ...what OH merry chrismtas hi. c|
Nox: I quite enjoy mistletoe. ;D
Tuna: ...Key gave me mistletoe for christmas.
Nox: ...|:
Tuna: HAY KEY I GOT YOU SOME YOYOS AND A NEW HEADBAND and I got Her a NEVERMIND I'LL JUST GIVE OUT PRESENTS TOMORROW. cB
Pan: WOO.

In the meantime, Tuna would like to present you with her symphony. I recorded something for her voice butlol this is all you get for now because I'm lazy. c:

8D merry Christmas, my friends!!!!!!!!

I was Rah-bop's Secret Santa :3 I posted the pic in the Pictures section and in the forums.

Clickie

I am so very relieved to be done with it. x3;;;

[center]Wow, what a day!

Today was the very first day I have ever seen snow. At first, I didn't even realize that it was snowing. Then, all of the sudden, I realized that there was snow falling from the sky! I was so thrilled, I just had to run around, leap, and skip through the snow! I just wish it wasn't so cold. Being a fawn, I don't really have much protection against the winter chill. Yet another reason I can't wait to be a stag!



Anyway, I ran off through the snow -- and who should I bump into, but my friend, Seed? I was so happy to see him, I couldn't help but run circles around him. Although I'm usually a pretty calm foal, sometimes I can be too hyperactive for my own good. Anyway, Seed and I played for a bit with some other deer. Then I got turned into a bat, and chased him around the forest. I'm not sure if he saw me, though, so I was more or less just following him.

Then we played around with spells for a bit -- and I discovered that I was able to keep my magic! Oh, I was so happy to discover this!



All day long, I've been experimenting with different sets. All this magic makes me even more excited for my stag-day.

Of course, I don't have many friends, right now. But who knows how many deer I'll meet from now until then? I love meeting new deer, even though sometimes I do feel quite intimidated by the older stags. I know a lot of deer, but I really only think of Seed as my friend. And I had a blast with Seth and Calanthe the other day, but I don't see them around very often. Well, I mean, I see Calanthe around a lot, but she always seems busy with other things, and I don't want to bug her. Sometimes I can be quite shy, you see. Older deer can be so intimidating! If only I wasn't so small...

Merry Christmas to you all! We wish you all well, and a salty, so-desired cone of pine for all of ye who enter!!!

Why do you mortals celebrate the day that a famous male creature was physically seperated from their mother? Should not that be a sad thing? You mortals confuse me. Ah well. Tide well, young fellows...

Sigh...may you all wander in the snowen plains, in the forms of fawns, in sets of delight. Wish the flower fae well for me, and greet your snowdrops with love. For they are a blessing of which not many may partake...

Merry Christmas, everyone!!! I MADE YOU ALL SNOW ANGELS! WHEEE!!! Nurra proceeds to spazz around in a circle, gets dizzy, and falls in the center of a bunch of snow angels. The others proceed to giggle.

Heheh...merry Christmas to all ye mortals. May you tread well into the future, reborn into the new year as was the babe of your past...

Happy Holidays! Pingüino bounces multiple times over Nurra, who gets dizzy again and falls asleep.

Shinto holds his head high and proud as he proclaims, *Ahem.* All ye, all ye, endless deer of this, the "Forest", bring to ye the gentle snows as you you remember Christ, the Lord...

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Merry Christmas, everyone!!!