So What Did Santa Bring You?

The benefits of having a large family:

- Shiny blue dragon statuette... looks about six, seven inches tall.
- King Kong on DVD.
- Leather jacket that once belonged to a priest.
- Chocolate-coated crystallised ginger.
- The Princess Bride on DVD.
- A DragonBall Z singlet which I'm wearing now.
- Doodads and gizmos.
- Scarf from Vietnam.
- Laser-etched dragon image within a crystal block.
- Three miniature retainers from the long-dead army of Qin Shi Huang Di. (Maybe not the actual priceless treasures of the First Emperor's tomb, but they look pretty nice anyway.)
- A multitool. Very useful.
- A tome (no other word for it) on the German legends Wagner made into the Nibelungenlied. I shall file it beside my tomes of Icelandic sagas and Latin American civilisation.

And I got to give out some cool stuff, too, including a giant hamper in a card-thick package no more than three inches wide, and earrings in packages so big I had to put them on opposite sides of the tree (where we keep out trove before opening day). I get great satisfaction out of confounding people with my wrapping skillz.
 

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- Box o' Cashews
- 'King Arthur' Director's Cut, Collateral DVDs
- Brandy new Self-cleaning Rechargable shaver
- Best of the Eagles CD set
- $35 in Gamestop Gift Cards (Gonna get KotoR 2 2morrow! JOY!)
- Books on Knights and Vikings (the Brother said I needed books with pictures in them)
- LotR : RotK EE DVDs. Love the special features!
- Big ol' Box of Fruit Jelly Confections
- assorted munchies

Got the family a big, heavy 2 foot tall Gemstone Globe w/ Brass Stand. Very nice.
 
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Merry Christmas Everyone!

I got a few things this year:
- a new wallet
- a set of bbq tools
- a new bbq
- a jellybean dispenser
- a file folder for all of my documents.
- a couple of very cool frosted ice coffee glasses
- two christmas table napkin holders
- oh yes, a huge box of cookies which I'll share with my sweetie

Edit: I forgot my LotR:RotK:EE Collectors Gift Set that turned up 2 days before christmas! Woot, time for a movie marathon.
 
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I got a lot of the standard Christmas stuff. By far, though, the best gift was the first ten DVDs in The best of the Dean Martin Variety Show collection. When talking to my mom a few months ago I had mentioned how I had seen an infomercial about it when I was out-of-town on business, and mentioned how absolutely hilarious. Lo and behold, she (with help from EBay) came through and got me the first ten DVDs in the collection.

To me, the best part of Christmas is getting the gifts you didn't know you wanted from the people you didn't expect would get you them. Anyone can mention something they want and usually get it. For me, it's the best when someone gets you something absolutely dead on but absolutely out of left field. These DVDs hit that mark perfectly.
 



Misc toilitries (deodorant, cologne, razor blades, etc)
Set of metallic dice from Chessex
Star Wars box set

I just finished watching all three movies and about one hour of the bonus features...and I'm a very happy geek right now! (Well, except for the scene where Greedo shoots first, but I won't get into that.)
 

Let's see, I think I did pretty well with this haul of loot:

New Double Bed (with head and footboards, mattress and bedding)
The Times Complete History of the World
Spiderman 2 DVD (2 disc version)
Van Helsing DVD (2 disc version)
Coffee Maker (with pack of coffee syrup sachets and a pack of Rocket Fuel coffee!)
Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction hardback
Complete Arcane
Legacy of the Blood sourcebook for Ravenloft
Fleece lined Denim Jacket
Two-Bad action figure (I collect the villains from the new He-Man line)
Bottle of Tia Maria
Bottle of Merlyn (a welsh version of Baileys basically)

Plus I bought myself:

Evil Lyn and King Hsss carded action figures off ebay (which promptly got uncarded for display. I HATE keeping toys in boxes)
LotR: The Return of the King Special Extended DVD edition.

Plus a kick ass house party with about 40 friends at my place tonight (26th), complete with DJ, plenty of food and drink, and a goodly number of gorgeous women in as little clothing as possible. I love Xmas!
 

Some clothes, baby spit all over me, and a house full of gift wrap from the family that visited.

The gifts I enjoyed were Unearthed Arcana, Adventure I & II, candy, money, 24 six sided dice when I was already overwhelmed with them, and a few videogames. All in all, not too shabby :) .
 

Return of the King Extended Edition Boxed Set
A bunch of shirts
2 pair of blue jeans
4 expansion packs for Heroscape
 

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