things we would buy for each other for christmas if money were no object:

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for beckmann:
a piano or clavinova
a hybrid suv
the abandoned school next door
the shop space in porter square where hypothesis can live
her student loans
a puppy
a recumbent bike
a chair with netting
any and all stamps from rubber stamping madness
a wider driveway
guitar lessons
tattoos
a rock tumbler
silver smithing studio
publishing contract (for 5 editions at least)
private concerts
specifically have iron and wine come play for our dinner parties
temperpedic bed
shooting lessons
and this house

for liser
a mini coop
whatever elliptical i want
a new computer
a massage studio with hot tub
a summer house in lake george next to ellen's
and my own boat
my student loans
a duck
ok two ducks
alice
tattos
a life supply of kettle corn
radiant floor heating
temperpedic bed
thigh high striped socks
pilates studio with reformer
paid afternoon nap-time forever
hogwarts (i know it's not real but neither is this game and i want it anyway)
and this house

for khenry
a vespa
a car like shanti's
a new flat screen tv
a photo studio
a hairless cat
espresso machiene
piano lessons with beckmanns
tons of tattoos
a great dane
a nice aquarium that someone else cleans every week
1950's silver motor home that we can drive cross-country in
every video game system ever
bow and arrow and a target that's shaped like a bull
shooting lessons
and this house

for shanti
chewbacca costume
the house next door so she can live there
(jk we're buying the house next door for ruth so when we push her out of downstairs she has somewhere to go)
so she can live in the school that we own and pretend she's the resident giant (shanti can pretend, not ruth)