expectations

A snippet of phone conversation to illustrate Christmas giftgiving in my family:

Gaoo: Well, it's kind of a spoiler, but I thought you might like this present before Christmas... I bought you a tin of yeast*.
Elsa: Did you? YAY!

*It's the enormous catering-sized packet of yeast, bigger and cheaper and inexplicably better than I can buy at my grocery. It's a great present that Gaoo gives me every so often, and one that routinely baffles friends if I mention it.