if you feel bad, donate to charity. Anyway. Christmas is a HUGE affair in my family, and we give and get a LOT of stuff between me, my sister, brother, parents, three aunts, and an uncle.
Got:
- money for a new computer! this is very good because my current one is 7 years old and since the fan sounds like an old car and the BIOS doesn't see the disc drives I must finally admit that it's on the verge of death.
- 3 calendars, a fractals one, a Tintin one, and a plup movie posters one.
- 6 dress shirts
- copy of Last of the Mohicans (the book)
- hat with badass earmuffs, so I can disguise myself as a Canadian
- Slippers. very comfy.
- An awesome teacup
- lots of tea. Lady Blue, which is an awesome mix of green and black flavored with vanilla and orange, and Tippy Yunnan, plus whatever my sister ordered that has yet to arrive <_<. We like tea, yeah.
- lots of socks, black and white.
- 2 cds: Steve Turre's In the Spur of the Moment (jazz trombone) and Omar Faruk Tekbilek's Whirlwind (I..uh...have no idea)
- Dvds. Ghost rider and Transformers
- various food items including but not limited to: Malted Milkballs, a bar of free-traded chocolate, a can of smoked salmon, a can of smoked kipper, a block of homemade fudge, a block of homemade pinnucci, and a clementine.
- James Beard's The Art of Cooking! yay!
- The Book of Tea! yay!
- ticket to the Christmas Revels up in Cambridge
- and a quality wooden mixing spoon.
Gave:
to my brother: the Suikoden 3 manga volumes 9 & 11, with an IOU for 10; an IOU for a t-shirt from
http://www.perspicuity.com/ (I hope he gets 'Donaaska Donatello' or 'Toys for Trots')
to my sister: a nice scarf, a necklace, and a copy of the Aeneid (Stanley Lombardo's translation)
to my mother: a nice scarf, owl earrings, and ladybug earrings
to my father: Hercule Poirot: the Movie Collection (my sister went in on this one, too)
to my aunt Jan: a nice scarf, and a pair of red & white painted copper earrings
to my aunt Deb: a nice scarf, and a flattened bottle of wine that serves as a tray for cheese and crackers or whatnot (cooler than it sounds)
to my uncle Dick: the collected cartoon book from
http://www.perspicuity.com/to my aunt Lin: a nice scarf, and a necklace
to my girlfriend Kelli - a very nice necklace (I hope) and one of those scarves...so far (haven't done the rest of our gift exchanging yet)
those scarves were really fantastic. really, they're so big the term 'wrap' is more appropriate (or for the cynical 'tablecloth'). All different patterns, and some of them were double-sided. Practically a steal at the price I got 'em.
Anyway, yeah. big Christmas, mostly done now.
Also, my girlfriend and I are going in for a Wii, but since we're goving that to ourselves, and it's not as if I have it in hand, doesn't really count. (Shouldn't be to hard to get, though. They're actually pretty easy to find in the city, and I work 3 blocks from the Nintendo store).
