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Of those of you who celebrate krismahaunakwanzeenmasaka, what did you get this year?

Of course, at the time of this post, its christmas eve, I'm just getting a Jump start! Every X-Mas eve we open up one present as appeasement before x-mas day. So far I have:
Full Metal Panic? FUMOFFU anime dvd's (#'s 3 and 4)

Not everyone celebrates Christams, or Haunaka, or Kwanza, or Winter-een-mas, so share what you got on these holidays too. Everything from the pointless to the "ZOMG! THATS EXACTLY WHAT I WANTED FOR X-MAS!" to the truly sentimental.

Merry krismahaunakwanzeenmasaka to all, and to all a good night!

This post has been edited by strikerbolt on 25th December 2005 06:11

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Neneko is Neneko because Neneko couldn't be Neneko if Neneko wasn't Neneko!
--as quoted from Neneko, Mahoraba {Heartful Days}

I can stab a man with a thick paperback book thru the ribcage.

I celebrate Christmas and I got:

- 75 dollars in local currency ( Nuevos Soles). I want to spend them in books, movies, games and maybe some toys ( I'm a Star Wars toys collector)

-2 Star Wars toys (A Clone Trooper and a Shaak Ti)

-2 T-Shirts (In my country, it is Summer)

-A box of chocolates n_n

-A book of famous quotes



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x_X

I'm not too keen in Christmas, in all honesty. My family leaves much to be desired. In fact, we haven't done anything yet. My mother is still soundly asleep, yet last night she'd promised to make some nice breakfast.

I'm probably going to get clothes, some sort of piece of jewelry, a DVD, and a game. That's the usual. There will be slim jims or beef jerky in my stocking.

It's spelled Hannukah, by the by. And Kwanzaa has two a's at the end.

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This one time I punched a bear in the forehead TO DEATH! I still have the scars on my chest. I am the manliest man that ever did man.

League: Z3roHawk
Steam: Zero_Hawk
Wii U: Zero_Hawk
FF14 - Goblin - Zero Hawk <Fiend>

I got some computer parts that werent even asked

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It takes 2 people and a weapon
to commit a murder

Yesterday is history, Tomorrow is mystery,
today is a gift, thats why we call it the present.

Clothes
Boots
Iron (???)
Cellphone! W00t!

It's a shame that we don't celebrate Winter-een-mas. I can't wait to see what crazy antics Ethan will do this year!

This post has been edited by Barrylocke on 26th December 2005 01:03

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Dead Winter. A nice comic.

A flashlight
A couple shirts
Ruroken Manga
Matchstick Men
40 Year old Virgin
Memoirs of a Geisha
Tale of Genji
Seinfeld (seasons 5 & 6)
Bubble Bobble (PSone)

I celebrate Christmas, t's 2 AM and I just got back from a relative's house. Might as well say what I got.

Soul Calibur III and Final Fantasy IV Advance were my gaming haul this year, and I am extremely pleased.

I got some new reading material, including A Feast For Crows, Areas of my Expertise, and the first three books in the Flashman series, and I am again extremely pleased.

But my best present by a long shot was The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, which no fewer than six of my aunts and uncles decided to pool their assets to get me. **** yes.

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this is a blog mostly about comics and videogames
END SPOILER

awesome stuff guys ! heres what i got:

for games i got the dot hack series and FF4 advance
and for other:
kobe bryant shadow swingman jersey
lamar odom home jersey
kobe bryant US national team jersey
carson palmer home jersey
the jackass dvd pack! yeah!

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"The answer is, of course, that it would be best to be both loved and feared. But since the two rarely come together, anyone compelled to choose will find greater security in being feared than in being loved."
- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

Pulp Fiction (bought for self)
Wireless PS2 controller* (bought for self)
Slim PS2 (bought for self)**
Escape from Alcatraz dvd
Computer microphone headset thinger
Clothes an' stuff
$100 Best Buy gift certificate (Radiata or DQ8...?)
Cash in an amount I forgot
Pavement: Slow Century dvd (it's on its way from Ebay)

*the d-pad is one button, which is fairly idiotic
**would have bought one initially if I had known it was a top-loader!

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It's gonna be a glorious day
I feel my luck can change

Merry Christmas, everyone.

I got KOTOR II
Money
A digital camera, 5.0 pixels. Not sure what to look for to see if it's a "good" one. Josh, a little help please?
A homemade blanket from my wife
Jeans
The usual sundry gifts of t-shirts and socks
War of the Worlds

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Join the Army, see the world, meet interesting people - and kill them.

~Pacifist Badge, 1978

Hmm, let's see...

Chocolate
Socks
Gift set of my FAVOURITE perfume (The Spirit of Moonflower)
Abyssinian Cats Calendar (my favourite breed)
More chocolate
A burglar outfit (tee hee!)
2 jackets... one beige with floral print, one velour toy soldier jacket
Red t-shirt
A total of 13 books (some of which were bought in bulk)
MORE chocolate (I swear my family are trying to fatten me up)
McFly CD (Dougie is hawt)

I did get more but I can't be assed to write them all out.

And... £105 going towards my bass guitar! Only £45 left to go...

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'Bastards, we may be, but clever are we.'
Thorn, FFIX

Due to my idiocy, I forgot to whine at my parents to get me a PSP as I intended however I did get a few cool christmas presents:

two books, namely the 6th and 7th books in the increasingly legendary Brentford trilogy by Robert Rankin
an insanely large amount of chocolate-based items, mainly chocolate coins from various people
a very cool wallet made from, wait for it, DUCT TAPE! Yeah, I'm serious, check this
a copy of Schott's Almanac 2006
a battery operated card shuffler
Issue #460 of Mad Magazine, which my Canadian aunt tend to send me
A sudoku book
lotsa money
various other stuff I may have forgotten

Merry christmas everyone!

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"Fire and steel
follow me through the lands
you will burn hordes of hell
in the deadly raging flames of revenge"

Rhapsody - Flames of Revenge

Don't forget Ramadan, it ended a while ago though. And the FSM holiday, Holiday.

To more important issues...
Phil Hartman DVD (Best of SNL)
Adam Sandler DVD (Best of SNL)
Cheez-its and Club Crackers
Atelier Iris: Eternal Mana
Some CDs (Rat Pack and Frank Sinatra if you must know)
And a brand new moniter for my crappy, crappy computer. (The thin flat kind)

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Really Random Quote of the Day: "Short of changing human nature, therefore, the only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war." - Richard M. Nixon

So if you're done reading this, you know I have nothing to say and you've wasted your time. Thank you come again.

Merry Christmas everyone! I never get much for Christmas anymore, but I'm not complaining. I believe it's much much better to give than to recieve. I got gift cards for Best Buy ($20) and the Gap ($50) and $40. I spend a lot of time in Best Buy and now I've got an excuse to go into the Gap for the first time.

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"Thought I was dead, eh? Not until I fulfill my dream!"
Seifer Almasy


"The most important part of the story is the ending."
Secret Window


"Peace is but a shadow of death."
Kuja

This year I received the following for Christmas:

Season 9 of the TV show Friends
Season 2 of the TV show Murder She Wrote
Lego Star Wars for Game Cube
An icecream maker thing
Various Ghiradeli Chocolates hot cocoa
Pocky
Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception (book)
$5 giftcard to the movie theater (I wanted to go see Harry Potter again but alas it has left the theater)
A drawing my friend did of Hello Kitty playing Gamecube
A Hello Kitty coloring book (ok I know it's the though that counts but last week my friend asks me what I want for Christmas and I tell him Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone for Gamecube and he decides to get me a color book instead and he knew I was getting him a video game. I feel kind of like crap now.)

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Elena Indurain

Currently Playing: Suikoden II

heated floor for the bathroom
brand new toaster oven
a $650 set of aluminum cookware
cheese fondue set
probably 30 pounds of chocolate
trigun DVD
cowboy bebop DVD
lost universe DVD
underwear
picture frames
tangarine bath crystals

and a visit with old family friends, people i've considered family my whole life and have rarely seen the past 7 years. that alone made it the best christmas in a long time.

oh, and can you tell we just bought our first house last may?

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The first duty in life is to assume a pose,
and the second duty is...well, no one's found out yet.

Because I've been playing with my new toy (Soul Calibur III), I didn't post immediatley. However, here is my Christmas Haul:

Soul Calibur III
Romance of the 3 Kindoms X
LAN Party T-Shirt
Pants
New Jacket
Dynasty Warriors 3
Booklight
Screen Guard for PSP
Car Charger Adaptor for PSP
Full Metal Panic? FUMOFFU 3 & 4 (last ones of the series, can you believe it?)
20 Questions

I still have anoher X-Mas on the way as I'm about to visit my Grandpa, and my present from my elder sister hasn't completed its way through the mail.

But yea, I've virtually spent my vacation after x-mas on Soul Calibur III

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Neneko is Neneko because Neneko couldn't be Neneko if Neneko wasn't Neneko!
--as quoted from Neneko, Mahoraba {Heartful Days}

I can stab a man with a thick paperback book thru the ribcage.

Quote (Zero_Hawk @ 25th December 2005 12:22)

It's spelled Hannukah, by the by.

Hannukah.
Hanukkah.
Chanukkah.
Channukah.

Take your pick, actually.

I still celebrate Chanukkah and most other Jewish holidays with a friend of mine; used to do the same every year with my stepdad. So far I've received candy and alcohol this year... like every year.

As for Christmas, I always just get gifts from whomever I feel like givin' a few to. This year I received mainly a boatload of DVDs I'd been wanting.

*Enter positive yet generic holiday greeting so awesome that it totally makes up for being so late*

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Words of Wisdom:

If something can go wrong, it will.

If anything simply cannot go wrong, it will anyway.

If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong. - Murphy’s Law

Boing! Zoom! - Mr. Saturn

I gave you all the gift of no holiday message here from me. I really didn't have any internet at all for most of the last week.

From my wife I got the requisite clothing, as we're both clotheshorses and tend to celebrate that. But on top of that I got from her a guidebook to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is about 500 illustrated pages of exibits and their backstories - really awesome when you're dealing with several acres of museum space, because we've been twice and we KNOW we haven't seen everything in the permanent exhibitions yet. Plus, I got a FM transmitter to connect to my iPod so I can play it over a standard radio. On top of that, she got me the one thing I really, really wanted this year: The Complete Calvin and Hobbes. I'd wanted it since I heard it was being released, and it's even better than I had hoped.

My brother got us a radar detector. I might keep it because there's nothing at Radio Shack I really need, but one radar detector for two people with different cars is kinda like WTF. My sister got me a Sirius receiver that I can use in my car or at home, which is pretty awesome - I'd actually been wanting satellite radio, but I don't know for sure yet if I want Sirius or XM. My parents gave us both cash because we begged to not have as little as possible to take back with us in the car. But then they also gave us both some U of Illinois stuff, since it's hard to come by back home. Angie's parents got us all sorts of little things too - tops on my list is the big saute pan with a heat indicator in the middle.

I, as usual, was happier giving gifts than getting them. The stuff I gave out was much cooler than what I got, IMO. Just because that's what I go for.

Hamedo: You can tell me what it is and I can tell you what's cool and not about it, should you actually care. But at least in terms of raw size, 5.0 is a good idea for a consumer. You can print great quality 4x6s, which is mostly what you'll use it for, I'd guess. 5.0 is what I picked out for my dad to give my mom this year.

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"To create something great, you need the means to make a lot of really bad crap." - Kevin Kelly

Why aren't you shopping AmaCoN?

Hrm... Well, the most notable of my gifts this year would be...

- A DVD player, with a DVD of Spirited Away to acompany it

- Dance Dance Revolution, Mario Mix (So much fun to play with my half-drunk sister)

- Rivera for GBA

- Fuzzy warm Pjs! (Go ahead and laugh, but you wish you had some deep down inside)

- A picture of my Kitty (Who was put down recently) in a really nice frame

- And a partridge in a pear tree!

... Okay, I made that last one up. So sue me.


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TURKEY! - (The only way not to get blocked for using Fowl Language)

I recieved:

Various amonts of money (once you get to a certain age they figure this is easier than actually shopping)
family guy season 4 DVD
Nintendo DS with Mario Kart & Castlevasnia (then used previously mentioned $ to get Trauma Center & Lunar)

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What if he shot you first instead of your secretary?

I suppose I'd have to catch the bullet, wouldn't I

Most notably, a PSP. It's great that I can have a device that lets me play games, Mp3s and look at photos on the toilet all in one, and that was from my parents, who also got me a pair of jeans, a jacket and Nick Drake's 'Pink Moon.' My sister got me a £10 voucher for HMV, my grandparents got me GTA: Liberty City Stories for said PSP as well as a rather nice hoodie, and my other grandmother gave me £75. From other relatives came many shirts, DVDs, gift vouchers and scarves.

This year, however, I went as all-out with gifts as a jobless 16-year-old can go, and as such got my mum the new Jamie Oliver cookbook (£20, wtf), a hat, and, jokingly, a dog leash as I've been hankering after getting a dog for a long while now. For my dad, I got a T-shirt, a £15 HMV voucher and The Strokes' 'Room on Fire,' a band he's really grown to like recently. I got my sister a £10 top-up-card for her mobile phone and some god-awful hippity-hoppity compilation CD, both of my grandmothers a little ornamental box-thing and some of the usual shampoos etc., and my grandad a book he wanted and a rather posh washbag. It was great to see the looks on people's faces when they realized I'd actually spent money for once.

In addition to my rather extravagant set of presents for which I'm incredibly appreciative, my parents not long ago booked tickets to a Sigur Ros concert in New York, claiming beforehand that if indeed they did buy them, it would be a Christmas gift.

i finally got a ps2, along with FFX and KH. i also got ffIV for gba.

using gift money, i bought DQVIII, and Star Ocean, but whenever i go into a battle, it freezes. (now i have to buy another...*sigh* luckily thats what gamestop is for!)

rpg fun time!!!!

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OSonic Rave
/ \Last Arcanum
[ ]Strike Raid
XRagnarok

I got Luigi's Mansion, Mario Kart: Double Dash, Sould Calibur II, and Shadow the Hedgehog, all for Gamcube.

I got the boxed sets for Lord of the Rings, Stargate: SG-1 Season 8, and Stargate: Atlantis Season 1.

A very nice glass chess set, some books I probably won't read, an iPod Shuffle I'll never use, a Jonny Cash CD and an Alabama CD.

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"I had to write four novels before they let me write comic books."
-Brad Meltzer

Quote (Dark Paladin @ 2nd January 2006 21:15)

, an iPod Shuffle I'll never use,

still in the christmas spirit? my mp3 player is broken!

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The first duty in life is to assume a pose,
and the second duty is...well, no one's found out yet.

merry belated Christmas, everybody. and i also extend the warmest chanukah greetings to any of our jewish brethren here, if we have any.

i got a bunch of clothes, a new pair of boots, and two chess sets (i have been collecting them for a couple of years). like josh, the highlight of my gift exchange was also giving gifts, even if almost half the gifts i hand-picked this year ended up going back. the highlight of my Christmas, of course, was being availible to a friend of mine to answer all his questions concerning id, God, and the Bible.