Christmas 2006: Post what you got!

I got:

An ice frame case for my ipod nano
Viva Pinata special edition faceplate with bonus downloads for my 360
Diesel Watch
Knight rider dvd box
Disney's Little mermaid

Overall a very nice christmas and as usual i gave about 3x as much as i got..but i guess that's how i am

 

Nice big stash of CDs:
Alice cooper:billion dollar babies
Black Sabbath:Vol 4
Motorhead:Bomber
Jimi Hendrix:Are you experienced
Rick Wakeman:King arthur

as well as one of these

Its a cyberman voice changer helmet - talk and it makes you sound like a cyberman! I may be 19 but I'm apparently still just a big kid!

 

I got err.... bugger all Christmas in sad in Japan. Still, did get a nice birthday prezzy last month

Yakumo

 

i got:

floor mats for the car
foosball table
my credit card paid off
a fifth of jagermeister
and tuition

so i really can't complain this year, made out fairly well

oh, and being at home with dial up sucks

 

1 - My gf letting me buy a wii last month. (early x-mas)
2 - A metal puzzle i've still yet to figure out (damn loops)
3 - Nephews are letting me have their Zelda GCN Bonus disc
4 - Candy Canes and IMO the best ever made (Refering to Logans for anybody from california familiar with them).

 

I got some PS1 games, cash and hopefully I'll get tomorrow a laptop.

 

I got some cash and some shirts. Unfortunately Santa couldn't fit an arcade cabinet down the chimney. =(

 

Giving giving giving

Gave a Powerbook G4 extra service part keyboard to a friend
A Playstation 1 Blue Debugger to a fellow collector friend of mine
Lumines II for the girlfriend
slippers for mom
sucks for dad.
I'm still looking for that DTL-10000.....

 

Please tell me that is supposed to say "socks" h:

Anyway, over the past month:

Sony 60a2000 60" 1080p HDTV
Playstation 3
Bunch of games

 

I got a Vectrex with 11 games (all in boxes with the overlays) and some random cds.

 

HDTV (Philips, small but nice)
Xbox360 (bought that for myself )
Money, money and money again

 

My present was partially my Wii (...), and my San Fran Rush! Cabinet.

 

1) Zelda TP for my Wii
2) GT Pro for my Wii (Plus free steering wheel - woohoo!)
3) Clothes
4) Vouchers for HMV (more Wii stuff no doubt...)
5) Socks, slippers - and those usual gubbins.....

Was happily bowling on the Wii with my niece, then we go and get a power cut - kinda spooky :0)

 

-iPod Nano from my family
-A bunch of shit I bought myself
-fucked on a few things that I don't care to go into now.

 

Games:
Neverwinter Nights Diamond
F.E.A.R.
King's Quest Collection
Space Quest Collection

Music:
Between the Buried and Me - The Silent Circus
Between the Buried and Me - The Anatomy Of (probably exchanging this for their self-titled album)
The Fall of Troy (self titled)

Other stuff I'm waiting on from Newegg:
Logitech MXsomething mouse
Logitech 2.1 speakers
Turtle Beach USB 2.1 sound thing (for my laptop)

The hardware is mainly for when I move to East Carolina University (in about two/three weeks).

Edit: and some socks

 

We do pretty much the same, but (mainly because of our genetic tendency to), we end up giving smuggling one or two gifts.

I gave my very gaming-obsessed nephew Devil May Cry and Final Fantasy XII. He was quite happy.

I made my girlfriend two paintings. She liked them. I hope she lets me scan them or take a pic of them later so I can show them to you.

My girlfriend gave me a pair of Sennheiser PMX-200 earphones, which is the first wrapped Christmas gift I have received from someone in a couple of years.

I think one of my favourite gifts is that, from Dec 21st (End of the official semester in Mexico) this is my first actual complete vacation since December 2004.

 

hmmm I got some Hugo Boss hairgel, with a deodorant at the side, and a cloths gift certificate and that made my christmas. To my neigbours daughter, I gave her a brand new music keyboard, for about 40 quids (yeah 400 kroner isn´t 40 quids, but it is damn close). And my neighbour still thinks it is damn weird, that I gave her that present, but well back then I just had the 400 to burn, so why not give her that present. But he feels weird, since she is 15. And I am 24, but I am NOT in love with her or anything, I just felt I wanted to give something, she would be glad about, since she is an intelligent girl, and quite talented, so why not give her something she can use ? So that is what I gave her

And it was a smashing jul

Yakumo-sama I think Japan helds jul instead of christmas, since jul is held the 24. of December, instead of Christ mass. And well the Japanese people are pagan , so why not celebrate jul then ?

Or perhaps I am babbling a bit. But that could might be it.

XerdoPwerko: I have told you, that Sennheiser earphones are great

 

"My family doesn't exchange gifts, we don't buy into the commercialism of the holiday. We celebrate it as it used to be, a quiet day with family."

I do agree there is too much commercialism, but it doesn't mean a few gifts can't be exchanged. I'll concede and say that if you're worrying too much about gifts during this time, then you've probably been sucked into the commercialist aspect of society's take on the holidays.

Family DOES matter. =)

As for me...

Specialized brand Mountain Bike - $329
(I list the price not to boast, but as a measure of the bike's quality/whatever. I know little about bikes in general, but I am extremely pleased to have this nimble one to ride from point A to point B on.) Asked for this.

Metal Slug Anthology (Wii), specifically asked for this.

Blazer (green/blue) didn't ask for, but cool nonetheless

AirSoft pistol and slingshot, didn't ask for, probably won't use, so I may just return it to my brother (who gave it to me) as he'll have more fun with it.

I didn't really have anything in mind when thinking about gifts this year. I guess paying for all my Wii stuff last month negated any stinging desire that I usually get at this time of the year.

This is my last "normal" Christmas as I see it. Next year, I'll be at the University of I Don't Know Yet Because Admissions Hasn't Informed Me... Not to say I can't visit my family, but school has had a way of making everything relevent to it. The people and places of school in my past years have helped form me.