What did you get for Christmas/New Year?

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alec

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Tell me, 'cause I want to know. If the goods you obtained are valuable, please add your address and tell me when you are not going to be home.

I've gotten lots and lots of goodies this year, oh boy, oh boy.
Next to a handsome amount of money, I was given

- a Wii (I actually got it before Christmas, but it was my girlfriend's Christmas present for me)
- a Wacom tablet (the Volito 2, probably the cheapest model, but that's really all I needed, so I don't care that it is fucking small)
- Paint Shop Pro 8 (w00t! I only need it so I can work in layers, but dawgunnit, is this a great gift or what?)
- Mario Kart for the DS
- Rafa Nadal Tennis for the DS
- 15 ProMarkers + 2 marker pads (A4)
- Cartoon Modern by Amid Amidi (hardcover book about fifties animation with lots of illustrations - awesome discoveries inside)
- Passionella and other stories by Jules Feiffer (to complete my collection, har har har!)
- a Moleskine notebook (gotta love them! gotta collect them all!)
- a new bathrobe (and I really needed one)
- a small bag of weed (a friend gave me this, although he knew I am planning on stopping... oh well, I might as well enjoy it...)

I gave my girlfriend a DS Lite (a pink one) so we can wifi with each other (yeah, I know it's geekish) and for the both of us, I bought a kitten, whom we named Indy and who's a British shorthair. Heh. She melts my heart.

Now tell good ol' wishy-washy alec what you got. In detail.
 
from my bro:

- a totally useless & incredibly funny Kikkerland CozmoJet toy. (you wind it up and it jumps all over the place and does flips like a moron)

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from my parents:

- reuseable calendar from "Le Chat" (by Philippe Geluck)
- "100 Suns" the A-bombtesting picture book (on own request)
- "The Forever War" by Joe Haldeman (on own request)
- "Shake hands with the devil" by Roméo Dallaire (on own request)
- Everlast gel sparring gloves. (picked myself, obviously)

(and a 2Gb Ipod Nano my dad got for free at a marketing congres, but that doesn't really count... the company pays 520 euros (p.p.) to attend and then the people there get a decadent amount of free goodies. that's bribery imo. imo Ipods still suck btw.)

from various other family members:

- mostly cash
- pair of Pyjama's
- few pairs of socks
- Axe gift set thingy (doesn't include the bikini babes ffs!)

from myself to myself (zomg! cheats!):

- "A boy and his dog" DVD (aka "Psycho boy and his killer dog")
- New PC: Intel Core2 Duo E6400, Asus P5W DH Deluxe, 2x 1gb OCZ XTC (ATI) PC2-6400 4-4-4-15, MSI RX1950Pro, Zalman CNPS9700.
 
I only got friendship and love.

J/k, I got money and stuff. Accumulated around 330€, got some new headphones, a big pokerset (13,5 grams a chip, w00t!), a couple of books, a nice drink shaker, a seinfeld DVD box (I now have three of them), and some other misc stuff I don't remember.

The whole 'giving' thing around christmas is still good, since I cash in more than I pay up. I reckon it will hold for a few more good years, until I start losing on it.
 
The Overseer said:
You damn fucking rich people.
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it's our friends and family that make us rich in life, not monetary wealth!

*queue dramatic chord*

haha, yeah, right.

but no, i'm not rich btw.
(admittedly my dad couldve been if he didnt throw it all out the windows all the time, but he's the only one in my family)
 
I bought myself two CDs:
Peccatum - Lost In Reverie
and
Marduk - Panzer Division Marduk

Also, I got 100 Polish Gold Pieces from my uncle.
 
Bah it was mostly a sweaters and money thing for me this year. I still got Fritz Lang's "You only Live Once" and the Lord of the Rings boxset with the extended versions, so it wasn't a complete lost.


In the end I gave myself an HD Ready 32 inches Sony Bravia S2020 and now I'm happy enough 8)
 
I think I'm going to buy myself my 'big' Xmas present sometime soon, thinking of getting a Creative Vision W, or a similar product, which is a portable multimedia player. One of those thingies even has a mini-recording camera, and I just can't wait to slap on a "Pip Boy" wallpaper to that thing.

Other than that:

- Thundercats children's coloring book
- Thud! by Terry Pratchett
- Chocolate (always a classic)
- Cheapo wrist watch
- ~50 Euro cash
- 'A Fistful of Dynamite' and 'A Fistful of Dollars' DVD's

Thassit.
 
alec said:
- Cartoon Modern by Amid Amidi (hardcover book about fifties animation with lots of illustrations - awesome discoveries inside)
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Skanz plz
 
The Overseer said:
You damn fucking rich people.
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Does your parents still pay your rent and stuff?

I'm totally poor, now I've got about 5€ to my name that will pay for a train ride to the family home where they will feed me until my next shipment of immoral cash comes from the government. (No welfare or anything, just money I don't deserve.)
 
A new monitor since my old one died just before Christmas. Some cash too.

Psycho bitch tried to suck my dick so I guess that's something, tho'.
 
-$25.00 gift card to barnes and noble
-A fitted baseball cap with my name on it
-Chrome zippo lighter of a serpent and cobra
-Bigiman cologne.
 
Warcraft 3, Psychonauts and Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney for the DS.

Otherwise, nothing of import. Hope you enjoy Mario Kart DS Alec, the game pissed me off to no end when I played it online (damn people who make magic burst all the way around).
 
Some people here have too many familymembers. As I only got, like, six left my list isn't that overwhelming:

- Hugo Boss shower gel & After-shave
- Book gift cards amounting to 125€ total (Already bought "Iron Kingdom: History of Prussia 1700-1947" with it - good book)
- Cash, amounting to 75€ total
- A hart-shaped gel pad that one is supposed to put in the microwave oven and then use it to warm your pockets or sth. I dunno, but it also serves well as a paperweight :D
 
  • A deo stick.
    Catch 22 which I changed for Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
    A surgemaster superior (makes the world a safer place)
    A new chair, so basicly the primary need for the next gift is settled:
    A strange piece of equipment that gives you backrubs.
 
SuAside said:
monsharen said:
Catch 22 which I changed for Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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what? you better explain yourself, mister!
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I guess I should have seen that coming. :)
Already own it, read it etc.

Blaboom,
peace
 
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