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What did you pull in this holiday season?

I got a bottle of absinthe, a 2006 Gibson Les Paul, an early 80's ProCo Rat distortion pedal, divorce paperwork and orders to Korea. Kind of a mixed bag, but I'll take it.

What did you get?

the highlight of my day was getting a coupon for a deep scalp massage

Ryan Adams tickets
new paper
a huge roundbrush (the biggest one ever made)
all natural makeup brushes
facial care
a calendar
the new trivial pursuit
scrabble dictionary
pretty necklace
booties
peacoat
monies
drunk
a stomach virus

Well, I just found out Jucifer is playing next Saturday close to here, so I'm going to count that as well. Maybe Amber Valentine with finally realize she should be with me.

I'm officially the last person in the world to get a GPS. So I got that.

I also got an All Clad griddle, which is totally awesome: http://www.chefscatalog.com/img/product ... 05_285.jpg

And a bunch of clothes.

And little big planet.

And this Ryobi power tool gift pack: http://sitelife.woodmagazine.com/ver1.0 ... .Large.jpg

And in shopping for my wife I learned the difference between "boy short" and "cheeky" panties, which was more of a present for me than it was for her. 5 for $25.

i got a sweet watch, a gift card to a giant specialty liquor store in town with which i got a a bottle of "single barrel" jack daniels, some vodka and 4 black label Partagas cigars, cash, and the family got a wii w/ guitar hero which is always fun

My brother bought me a fridge. I still havent received it yet but he said its "like one of the fridges that you'd see on Cribs". I treated myself to a filet mignon, a couple of Lacoste shirts and a BlackBerry Storm. My brother got an iphone, deck for his car and a North Face jacket.

new bowling ball, wii fit, the audacity of hope, a mini chinese waving kitty, new purse, and an obama action figure. the coolest part, though, was jonathan making a scavenger hunt throughout the house for me to find all of them. I clearly suck, though, because I needed help with like 3 of the clues. only super easy one was the garden state reference where he hid one in the dishwasher.

A Red Sox jacket and a bottle of Jager from my girlfriend. And an assload of clothes from everyone else...

I got:

a pink 16gb ipod nano
a pink Nintendo DS and some games and a case
black derby rollerskates with pink wheels and laces
The Universe and Planet Earth on blu ray
2 disney blu ray movies
Little Big Planet for the ps3
one of those little I-dog things only its a penguin
2 sets of pajamas
gift cards to AMC theater

Coal.

I got a "Dude" Big Lebowski action figure from my son and some $ from my mom.

GeForce 9800 GTX 512 meg PCIE video card.

Ken Burns' Civil War documentary on DVD

Fallout 3

ITunes gift card. (already used most of it to buy Portishead's Live in Roseland, NY album)


That's it. The bulk of the present-giving went o my brother's kids, pretty much, which is only to be expected.

As for stuff I gave out, I gave my brother 2 tickets to the Walking With Dinosaurs arena show so he could take his 5 year old elder son, who is on a huge dinosaur kick these days. Figured my bro is really busy at work a lot, so rarely gets to do stuff just him and his older son, so why not something his son will be sure to be agog over and let 'em spend a few hours together, just them 2?

Gave my mother a DVD she wanted, my aunt got a Godiva Chocolates Hot Cocoa assortment that she'd asked for, and I gave my dad 1 of 2 tickets to a Sharks game later this month. He took me to my first hockey game when I was knee-high to a duck at like age 4, and I loved it. So, I know he's never been to a game at the Shark Tank, which is an awesome spot to see a game, and given how the sharks are doing this year... So, I'm taking him to the Calgary/SJ game.

Anyway, I think I gave better than I got, but isn't that the point?

-Arlos

PS. Icarra, once when me and my brother were kids, and we would get each other stocking stuffers, I actually DID put coal (well, charcoal anyway) in his stocking. Wrapped up in wrapping paper and with a bow on it, after telling him it was the best gift ever, even...

Arlos wrote:Ken Burns' Civil War documentary on DVD

:jealous:

i got two more speakers, a new receiver, new dvd player, a north face jacket, a couple shirts, some money, and some classical music i wanted

I loved the presents I gave out. It helped me get into the jollies earlier this year, so the music was even nice...going ahead and buying those gifts definitely helps.

My favorite were the "D" cups for our family chinese christmas fun thing...our last names are "D"s so I bought a cool set of tumbler cups with a "D" embroidered on the inside, and labeled it "D cups". My son got a pair of Costa Del Mar's and some very cool hygiene products. He's all big now. I truly loved my holiday season...I enjoyed my company and everything I did. It's been hard returning home..

Ginzburgh wrote:I'm officially the last person in the world to get a GPS. So I got that.

Nope I am

Blackdiam wrote:

Ginzburgh wrote:I'm officially the last person in the world to get a GPS. So I got that.

Nope I am

I don't have a GPS. I'm quite content to retain the title of "directionally challenged", tyvm.

The Dark Knight
Clothes
Money

I don't own a GPS either, though I wish I did, because I have such a hard time reading/seeing the street signs whenever I go anywhere new. But I rarely go anywhere new without Ugzug anyway, and he has one.

So I will continue to rely on printed-out directions and squinting at street signs.

By way of loot, I got some clothes, a watch, some baking goods (silicone measuring cups & a rolling mat), and other misc. goods that I had picked out for myself so they weren't a surprise. The biggest thing was that we finally got some Wii games. We'd lasted about 6 months with only the Wii Sports and Rayman's Raving Rabbids. We begged friends, family and Santa for more games, and ended up with: Super Smash Brothers, Mario Galaxy, Wario Land Shake It, Cooking Mama, Let's Ride (for the step-daughter), Rayman's Rabbids 2, Rock Band 2, Guitar Hero World Tour, Lego Star Wars collection, Call of Duty, and Harvest Moon.

Our Wii is finally getting some play time!

Cast iron pans, 6" chef knife, bamboo cutting board, bug out bag filled with all sorts of weird shit from Trader Joes including some wine in a box that is the size of a juice box, food poisoning from my girlfriend's fantastic Christmas dinner (though I think it was her aunt's dish that got me), cash, and underwear.

i got:

sansa clip (fuck ipods)
both bale/nolan batman movies on blu-ray
shoes & shirts
cologne
a birdfeeder
uhhhhh beard lube....
a heap of gift cards/certs
and my dad's monstrously phat Washburn bass (previously a loaner, now a keeper)

oh and a stomach virus


i gave:

ma: a rice cooker and a really expensive candle
pa: a badly-needed dual-handset phone for the studio and a CD
sis: a crockpot recipe book and a promise to pay for a remote car starter and installation whenever she gets around to it

all three also got matching leatherbound blank books to write things in

oh and a stomach virus

I got magic cards ( mostly misc white stuff) social distortion flogging molly and new dead kennedys shirts and a bunch of pajama pants.

sorry to hear that

STOMACH VIRUS INDEED.

i got a lot of things but meds have addled my brain so i'll do the best i can:

sweatshirt
slippers
knitting books
crock pot cookbook (and the aforementioned promise of remote start, which i will figure out as soon as i can go out into public for more than a few minutes without wanting to pass out)
perfume
baking supplies
gift card to home depot (which was applied toward the purchase of a new toilet for my main floor bathroom . . . the thing can flush a BUCKET of golf balls!!!!)
hot tea
pajammies
lots of random self-affirmation stuff (seriously--a magic 8 ball that says affirming things and a magnet that says "i love you just the way you are . . . what is my mom trying to tell me, lol)
one of my dad's prints in a really nice frame
ummmm lots of other stuff


gave:

alex: aforementioned sansa clip, garfield minus garfield book, duplicate copy of dark night (must . . .find . . . receipt)
momma: suncatcher, bracelet, fancy aluminum water bottle, coffee syrups, cheese slicer
dad: new coat from land's end, hand-knit scarf, whipped honey
jorsh: new razer keyboard/headset/mouse matching set--they all glow blue like his tower. now he's the coolest wow player ever :P

and lots of ornaments and hand-knit scarves for my friends.

oh yeah stop looking for that receipt it's all good they took it without