Re: What did everyone get for Christmas?

I have 2 funny stories from this Christmas.

First, I gave my husband the second season of _The Muppet Show_ on DVD, and he gave me...the same thing!  I guess that great minds think alike.  :)  We are going to exchange one of the DVD sets for some Dr. Who DVD's.  :)

The other story is that a few weeks ago, at a family Christmas party, my mom said she'd been cleaning out her closet and had found a few sweater vests that she doesn't wear any more.  Since we're the same size, she said I could have the sweater vests.  The funny thing is, I had just been thinking about buying myself a sweater vest, so that I could cop Sarah Jane's look from her very first Dr. Who story.  :)  Well, now I don't have to buy one.

By the way, is the term "sweater vest" ever used in Britain?  I noticed that on this web site sweater vests are called  "tank tops."  And sometimes, I've noticed, British people say "jumper" instead of "sweater."  I get all mixed up about this.  I have the same problem in Russian, which also has the words "sviter" and "djemper."  If anyone has a lot of time on her hands and wants to explain to me the difference between a "sweater" and a "jumper," I'd be forever grateful.  :)

--from Dr. Dasha in the USA