And so it should really BE Christmas in most places that have it now. It's been Chrissy here for almost an entire day now, seeing it's almost 4 pm at the moment.
So what did you get?
I got food items exclusively… Well, apart from two nice leather belts. But food is all I wanted this year, glorious tasty treats of all different kinds. Almost all of them sweet; Turkish delights, baklavas, ginger fudge, shortbread, apricot jam, chocolate, blah blah blah… and so on. Delicious!
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Presents!!!!
Ahhh, good old commercialism, the true meaning of Christmas.
I didn't get anything because I don't celebrate Christmas, but I took advantage of a sale at Petsmart and got my dog a huge rawhide candy cane. She then proceeded to chew it for 5 minutes, then decide it wasn't interesting enough.
I got a couple books, and my dog got a big ham bone from one person and a hand knitted scarf (which surely was meant for me?) from another. Supposedly I have a couple more coming, but Royal Mail is slow. :)
I made myself a pumpkin pie, chocolate fudge, cranberry muffins and cranberry bread (and still have some cranberries left…). I've pretty much got it covered. :) (I also bought myself all the Poirot DVDs and a breadmaker earlier this month… and an iPod and some lush bubble bath things… I think that's all I bought myself!)
I got books mostly.
Two volumes of Tad William's Memory, Sorrow and Thorn trilogy: Stone of Farewell and To Green Angel Tower part 1. I'm still waiting for the rest (since he bought the long out of print series from four different sellers), The Dragonbone Chair (first volume of series) and the second part of To Green Angel Tower.
Also got two book by William Burroughs: The Place of Dead Roads and The Ticket That Exploded and Haruki Murakami's "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World".
BUT, the best thing I got…
Philippe Druillet's Lone Sloane: Chaos :D
It's a 60+ page hardcover edition by Heavy Metal, a friend picked up one of the last copies on Amazon. And it look BRILLIANT! :D Also, the size is great… it's basically as tall as DC's Absolute editions, except it being a French comic makes it even wider than these. Still, the art inside could use even bigger format :D Print quality is great, high quality thick glossy paper, vibrant colors. Just amazing :)
My gifts were distinctly low-end. A copy of The Dark Knight on DVD and a paperback collection of the various works of Arthur Conan Doyle (specifically the Sherlock Holmes stories) being the highlights. For someone that fancies himself a writer, I certainly don't read as much as I should, so it's nice to get something that doesn't make be say to myself "I can write a better story then this" within the first two pages.
Anywho, the olive drab pants I got are surprisingly comfortable, and the little electronic 20 Questions game is pretty nifty too (even though it tends to take more then twenty questions to get what I'm getting at.) Otherwise, just clothes and golf supplies… which is a bit awkward since I've never actually been golfing in my life.
Still, not a bad haul.
A couple of DS games (LOL! the game and Call Of Duty: World At War), a lot of Cars vehicles from the Pixar Movie of the same name (it's getting crazier to collect these damn cars since the sequel was officially announced, and I WILL have a miniature version of Radiator Spring in my basement someday!), a few movies (Hot Fuzz, Spider Man 3, and Wall-E), and some Hitachi power tools.
Santa brought the wife a new laptop, and wasn't that nice of the old fellow? Aside from that we got so much in the way of candies and cookies that I'm nearly reaching the barf zone. Good though.
Oh and last night, at the wife's request, I cooked a seafood dinner of jumbo shrimp, salmon fillets, and lobster tails. Hint: marinade the shrimp in a sweet wine for about ten minutes and then broil them [yes, I said broil them] for seven minutes. Delicious! But make sure you are cooking jumbo shrimp. :whistling:
We had a small christmas this year but it was very nice.
The weirdest things I got were a victoria's secret bra(kthx mom) and a bionicle figure(never had one before, he is very cool i wish i could design them) I got various other neat things. I think the best christmas present of all was my dog getting over her parvo, she ate a lot today and I will soon start disinfecting her yard.
Merry christmas everyone :)
I got a General Lee hat, some flannel pants, a few gift cards, unsalted rice cakes, toothpicks, and PB cheese crackers. My brother got some ramen. I can't afford even food right now so I gave him my train pass that has some credit left. It's a poor year for Chernobog's clan. :)
Permission to paint my walls in my apartment building with whatever murals I please so long as I provide sketches beforehand, a nice, BIG box of spray paint and supplies from the shop that sponsors me, a new computer printer, and several Speed Racer shirts to fuel my continuing addiction.
Muahaha, somebody HAD to ask.
I so love telling about the nifty things people get me. My friends and family are great at this.
I got, in no particular order:
- Wall-E (I think that movie is adorable, yes i do)
- Pom Poko (one of the few Ghibli movies I didn't have already)
- A penguin shaped backpack (because I <3 and hail our Penguin Overlords)
- An awesome hat (I like hats. I have more hats than I have shoes)
- Absolute Sandman volume 4 (My collection is now officially complete!)
- A cup, a bag of tea and a drawing (Tea = yaye)
And a few other things, but I'll just stop now.
Much joy.
Beatles Monopoly
Hey, my little sister and I got that too! It's awesome.
I also got an iPod touch, a green beret, some new records and a banana holder(I'm quite excited about this one). And lots of chocolate, of course.
Edit: Forgot to add that I also got a harmonica from one of my friends. He's going to teach me how to play. :)
Edit: Forgot to add that I also got a harmonica from one of my friends. He's going to teach me how to play. :)
Step 1: Place mouth on Harmonica
Step 2: Blow
Step 3: Move Harmonica across lips
Repeat steps 1-3 until you have achieved sounds to your liking.
At least, that's my method since I just play it in my spare time while I'm waiting for the bus and whatnot.
several Speed Racer shirts to fuel my continuing addiction.
Go Speed Racer Go!
Continuing addictions are fun. I should have thrown in that in addition to Beatles Monopoly, I also received BackBeat, a movie about the Beatles original fifth member, Stuart Sutcliffe. I heart the Beatles ever so much.
YAY ADDICTIONS!
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