What you got for xmas thread
By
Aggelakis,
Posted on: 2009-12-24 18:12 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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Am I the only one who read this and thought, "You got a coupon to buy your grandparents?"|
Originally Posted by Crazy_Dragon
...and £40 off my Nana and Grandad.
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I've really gotten to where I don't even like Christmas any more. If it were really just about spending time together, having a good meal, and love and peace and all, I'd be all for it. But somewhere along the line, it got tainted by all of this gift nonsense. To me, it's silly.
During the year, if I see something that I think that someone will really appreciate, I buy it and I give it to them. I don't wait until some arbitrary day. If someone does something nice for me, I try to respond in kind, and most of the time it's not really in a monetary kind of way.
In spite of me telling everyone repeatedly, "Don't get me anything," people still invariably do. My sisters and Belle are the worst about that. The problem is that they keep telling me, "Well, it's just a little something, and you don't have to get me anything..." Yeah, and how is that supposed to make me feel, getting a bunch of gifts and giving nothing in return except, "Thanks! And, um... I love you?"
For years and years, I ran through the motions. I'd sit there and rack my brain trying to come up with stuff to give people. Invariably, I'd end up a couple of days before Christmas calling around telling everyone, "I just can't think of anything. What do you suggest for [insert someone else's name here]?" For several years, I've tried to suggest that we all draw names so that we can focus on getting just one person something nice, but that's been a no-go. Everyone wants a tree full of gifts. It's always just an exercise in stress and frustration.
To be honest, I wish that everyone would just stop. No more gifts at Christmas, period. If you want to be happy because of material things, take the money that you used to spend on Christmas presents for everyone else and go buy yourself something nice, something you would normally not buy because it's capricious or a bit extravagant. No more fruitcakes, no more ugly neckties, no more gift cards sitting in wallets until stores go out of business, no more white elephants cluttering up my house collecting dust.
So what did I get for Christmas? Hopefully, nothing of monetary value.
What will I be giving others for Christmas? I'm going to log off and go spend some quality time with the people I love. God willing, there will be some pumpkin pie involved at some point. Peace, and I'll see you on the 26th.
We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.
(If you love this game as much as I do, please read that post.)
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I got mine when they were released so I paid full price. The planned price drop was only 10% so that's actually not a bad gift.
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Originally Posted by TonyV
Am I the only one who read this and thought, "You got a coupon to buy your grandparents?"
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A nice headset and a virtual pre-order for a Nexus One 
[CENTER]Euro side: [B]@Orion Star[/B] & [B]@Orions Star[/B][/CENTER]
I got a Red Rider BB gun! 
Omigosh, I'm so happy right now that ...
*BANG!*
OH GOD, I SHOT MY EYE OUT!!!!! 
THE PAIN! THE PAIN!
*_<
Got clothes, some books, some cash, an ATI 5850 graphics card (a few weeks early), a Corsair H50 CPU liquid cooler, and a new ride cymbal for my drum kit. I'm gonna use a bit of the cash to snag some games as well.
Positron: "There are no bugs [in City of Heroes], just varying degrees of features."
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They're not even worth enslaving, to be honest.
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Originally Posted by TonyV
Am I the only one who read this and thought, "You got a coupon to buy your grandparents?"
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Sam: "My mind is a swirling miasma of scintillating thoughts and turgid ideas."
Max: "Me too."
Stuff
I got to send my fiancee (who lives overseas) the funds to have a nice birthday party for her two year old son. Since this is his first B-Day party ever i thought it would be a nice gift for both of them.
I got to spend time with my elderly, disabled mother and have a nice dinner.
I got to keep my job. (unlike so many others)
In short, i got everything i wanted in the immediate future and for that i'm truly blessed.
Merry Christmas everybody and Happy New Year!
I gots me some...
Borderlands for the PC!
Diners, Drive-ins & Dives the complete third season!
A digital radio for my car! (this is awesomeness)
A hat and scarf made in the Andes mountains from Alpaca fur! I'm somewhat of a South America-phile, so this is also awesome.
Several books!
And I am not kidding, my own store on a T-Shirt making site, with some T-Shirts already in there made by my mother. This is probably one of the best presents of the lot.
A new PC which has or can hold up to six gigs of memory. I'm hoping the former.
I'll probably be getting it tomorrow.
I got my wife a $179 mini-camcorder and a $4.69 Domo doll that was on clearance at Target.
She's spent the last two hours playing with the Domo doll 
17 hours of overtime.
A new Lycos keyboard
A new cookware set
Two happy children
A happy wife
I gots my Force FX lightsaber!!!! The Vader one!!! YEEEEEA BOI!!
(I also got a shift to work =(
Lots of phat lewt today
More CDs, books and DVDs, some more clothes, including more riding pants - I got some of those last year, but you can never have too many pairs
I also got a large pile of cash to get my new GR computer with - so I'll be ordering that in the next few days
My family were all pleased with the stuff I got them too, so it's been awesome so far
More unwrapping of phat lewt a little later this evening 
@Golden Girl
City of Heroes comics and artwork
We don't really celebrate it in our family, but my work place did give me money and some nice comfy warm clothes.
Playstation 3 - XBox 360 - Wii - PSP
Remember kids, crack is whack!
Samuel_Tow: Your avatar is... I think I like it
Castle: "All I got was this piece of junk remote from Positron."
Playstation 3 - XBox 360 - Wii - PSP
Remember kids, crack is whack!
Samuel_Tow: Your avatar is... I think I like it
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That's actually a device that lets him data mine in real time, so the slightest hint of fun being had via PvP can be ruthlessly crushed with an iron fist in the shape of a hotfix for whatever power is causing the problem |
Originally Posted by bAss_ackwards
Castle: "All I got was this piece of junk remote from Positron."
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@Golden Girl
City of Heroes comics and artwork
Mostly books. The Mistborn trilogy, The Spriggan Mirror, Sweet Silver Blues, two Sonja Blue books; Princeps' Fury; some others.
Season two and three of Babylon 5. All I need is season 4.
New video card.
Arc #40529 : The Furies of the Earth
New PC case and power supply, an ATI 5770 HD card, and some nifty new PJ bottoms
"the reason there are so many sarcastic pvpers is we already had a better version of pvp taken away from us to appease bad players. Back then we chuckled at how bad players came here and whined. If we knew that was the actual voice devs would listen to instead of informed, educated players we probably would have been bigger dicks back then." -ConFlict
A few DS games, a few books, and a really nice set of speakers.
The best gift though: I got my sister Rock Band: Beatles. And it meant that I finally had a version of Rock Band that the rest of the family would play. For the first time in months, I used all four instruments, and I got to drag the family into playing with me.
We'll always have Paragon.
Authority vol 4 and Sleeper season 2 books. (Yes, I can't wait for Going Rogue to get embroiled in a similar situation to Holden Carver) Robot Chicken and Dollhouse DVDs. bunch of other stuff too, including money, some of which will go towards some new character slots!
@craggy see me on Union for TFs, SFs (please!) or just some good ol fashioned teaming.
Santa was ok to me....he made me feel really old (I am 34...LOL) when I opened the Transformers 25th Anniversary 16 dvd Matrix Of Leadership edition complete series....I got a 12 month xbox live membership...KISS drumsticks for Rockband...Guitar Hero 5 and UFC Undisputed 2009 for the 360...
My daughter did really well....I got her a Hannah Montana PSP and her grandparents got her a Nintendo Wii so she has a ton of gaming options...LOL
"A great love is alot like a good memory. When it's there and you know it's there,but it's just out of your reach. It can be all that you think about. You can focus on it and try to force it but the more you do, the more you seem to push it away. But if you're patient and hold still...maybe...just maybe...it will come to you. I just need to be somewhere she can find me" - Church from Red vs Blue
As I commented here...
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Thank you for the time...
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Originally Posted by Tymers_Realm
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@Travlr (Main) / @Tymers Realm (Test) 
For me:
the new SModcast book by Kevin Smith
A SModcast t-shirt
Slippers
I got my wife:
Sims 3
The Tudors 2nd season
And my 3 year old daughter got:
Full scale Woody doll with pull string and hat.
Coraline figures
Coraline doll
Coraline DVD
I got to spend around 65 Dollars on Steam which let me get, Ghost Busters The Video Game, Osmos, Psychonauts and Borderlands along with the DLC Pack.
I also got a crap load of Legos.
I asked for double of everything since Toy's R Us had a buy one and get one half off sale.
I also got a bunch of snacks and soda. Along with a bunch of other random gifts and clothes.
(Yes, I just realized that every sentence started with the letter I, I have no idea why). -_-;
My Lego Models http://www.flickr.com/photos/30369639@N07/ lemur lad: God you can't be that stupid... I'm on at the same time as you for once, and not 20 minutes into it you give me something worth petitioning?Lady-Dee: Hey my fat keeps me warm in the winter and shady in the summer.
It's a bit used, but I hear it costs ?00.000 yen if you want to buy a new one.. o.o
for me i got Simon's Cat art book ^^ love that cat.
HP deskjet f4580 printer (in black hehe)
2 horror dvds- nice bro
some odd cash
some aftershaves
alarm clock (so i wont be late for uni again hahah)
and rammstein double CD (Liebe ist for alle da)- which i also hoep to see them at uk sonisphere this yr too