Dear Santa...Again...But for the last time, I swear...

Really. I'm not being unappreciative again, I promise. I can't tell you how excited I was to find our electricity was back on. Or, okay, maybe you do know. You can see everything and all that. Blah blah. But, look. I'm sorry I scared the one good neighbor we have so badly. I didn't know I was screaming that loudly. Or jumping up and down or running around freaking out.

I was excited, that's all.

(And that rumor about me paying off the utility crew is blatantly untrue. I only tried to bribe the guys fixing the poles down the road to come repair our street first. I never really got to bribe them. Sadly, they had morals and were too professional to name their price. Can I just say, though-what is the world coming to, really, when you can't even bribe people? All this upstandingedishness. Eesh.)

But anyway, the point I'm getting at is, well...Santa, there are 44,000 people in New Hampshire still without power. That's just NH, too, and hey, there's a pretty big storm coming tomorrow. Not to mention, the temperature is going down again.

So, thank you. I'm so grateful you came through for me, I can't tell you. Especially because I didn't exactly keep all my promises. But, if you could do this one last thing, I will. I'll really truly give up the chocolate M&M's and mocking my scary neighbor if you could help them out too? All 44,000. Okay? Cause it's mighty cold out there.

-Kelley, who turned on every light in her house, cranked her heat up to eighty, and danced around singing Christmas carols at the top of her lungs just because she finally could.


P.S.

OH!!! Wait!!! I almost forgot!!! In case you had anything at all to do with it, I got the sweetest phone call today from the NYC RWA chapter when the phones finally turned on...and my book is a finalist in their 2008 contest and on its way to the final round. So, thanks Santa. Just, thank you. :)