Gifts and Me

 

When I wrote my post about the most precious objects that I own, I should have included these. These are my Space Spoons, given to me by my friend P (the one from my freshman year group I wrote about earlier) for my fifteenth birthday. They are the characters from Star Wars, Return of the Jedi more precisely, made out of various plastic utensils. Because P rocks - I mean, who would of thought of this kind of stuff?

 That 'script' that I talked about before - my friend J and I began to film it. At first we used ourselves as actors, but that quickly proved almost impossible. She didn't want to be onscreen (as I recall, tho this later went away when we did The Show) and we didn't really have any costumes besides Princess Leia. So film switched to action figures, but we didn't have all those right ones either. So we switched, finally, to the Space Spoons. We got only a few pages into the script.

From left to right: Greedo, an Ewok, a Jawa, Yoda, Bib Fortuna, Jabba, the Twilek Dancing Girl, the Rancor Master, Lando, Princess Leia (in a combo of A New Hope buns and her Return of the Jedi chain bikini), C-3PO, R2D2, Luke, Chewie, Han, Obi-Wan, Boba Fett, Darth Vader, a Stormtropper and The Emperor.

The detail, the care, the time that went into these spoons - that's what makes them one of the most amazing gifts I've ever received. My boyfriend gets me some great gifts - I love the thought he puts into them, so many of those would go on the list as well. The Barbie house I spoke about before was a gift, so that would be on there. The trip to Hawaii I've described before was a gift, that as well. My laptop was a gift from my parents, my friend S gave me a beautiful gown I'm quite fond of. My friend C has given me some fun ones throughout the years.

Anyway, it's easy to feel pretty lucky when I think about all the nice things people have given me over the years, but it's the ones with thought behind them that I really appreciate. I think I'll go read a book now, one that was given to me by a friend.