Yup, it does indeed appear to be solved. I was, quite irrationally, certain I'd screwed up, and then I remembered, no, this is LJ.

I hope you have a great Christmas!

Yes, FB is just fine - in fact, more than fine, since his friends got together and raised enough money to pay for the broken window and to pay for new electric guitar effects (pedals and such), and one of his friends gave him a new Telecaster. He said on Facebook that he felt like George Bailey at the very end of the movie.

Hugs to you and yours, my dear, and may this Light-Against-the-Darkmas be a good one for us all.

Heh. We normally load our tree down with many, many ornaments, as well as lights and garlands, but our little tree this year is so thick and dense that we would be able to put many ornaments on. I decided that's fine, since we'll only have to put our favorites on (including my great-great-grandmother's two very fragile tinsel ornaments.)

They did survive, and now have pride of place near the top of the tree. Were you able to retrieve the belt, so the tiny Santa doesn't lose his britches?

I slept in until 9:30 this morning! W00t!!1!

I'll give a further explanation of Andy's Amazing Adventure elsewhere, but yes, he was gifted by a lot of loving friends.

There's so much fun involved in introducing someone to fandom, isn't there? Your gift will be much appreciated, I can tell you!

Vacation is indeed divine! (Although today will be "vacuum, make relish, prepare the dressing, prepare the goose, get the chocolates and the salad and, oh, wrap the gifts" day.)

We just finished the best tree ever (every year's tree is the best tree ever at Casa KathBob), and are about to put the star that Andy made when he was four atop the entire glittery mess.