NO I WILL NOT!

It seems to me that my pending trip over the seven seas (or rather, just one) is the best thing to come to everyone I know. Not because I will be able to see my family, or because it will be nice to hear stories of when I go home, but rather, because I am soooooooooooo wealthy that I can afford to buy something for everyone I know. (Thai teachers.)

To date, I have received the following requests which I am to buy, carry back through customs and other headaches, and shop in three different states to find. No problem. I didn't want to do anything while I was home anyway.

-makeup from every company that doesn't exist in Thailand in neutral tones.

-three bottles of CK one Summer perfume from duty free, only.

-one bottle of Clinique Happy.

-a pack of Crayola crayons for every student I teach (80 or so).

-bags from J.Crew, for travelling, of course.

-one laptop.

-three gold Cartier bracelets, averaging about $2,500 each. (Cartier in Vermont?)

-snacks

-chocolate cookies (brought into Thailand, during the hottest time of the year.)

-the entire Neutrogenia line, times 3.

-jewelery, with small diamonds (only small ones?)

-(pointing to a picture in a magazine) "those shoes, those pants, and that shirt, but red."

-lipstick from Almay, because it is owned by Clinique, and clinique is too expensive

-story books for every classroom

-tables for the kids (sure, right into my suitcase)

-cologne middle eastern men wear (Don't ask)

-cigarettes, the long ones

-viagra

-a Fossil watch

-any other watches you see

Anything else? Upon receipt of two magazines from my loving mother (thanks mum!) I heard one of the Thai teachers say to her friend, "Isn't Heather's mum nice? She sent some magazines over so we would know what to order! Isn't that nice? Do you want anything?" Upon which this other woman I had never seen in my life promptly ordered three tubes of lipstick. I didn't know I was running a mail order business. (On my dollar, might I add...)

And so, when I go home, I plan on purchasing the following:

-a keychain for Rin

-thousands of dollars worth of stuff for ME.