You get anything cool for Christmas?

I got my roommate a wireless router.


My Roommate got me a vacuum sealed container to keep weed in!

I guess it's this year's gift for teachers. Believe me, I'm not complaining! I will definitely use them -- and have started already.

it might be uncool but at my age what else can i use except money, food, and booze? :-) so it's highly appreciated

i finally have a laptop that wasn't made in the stone age! :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

I got some wonderful ceramic pots and bowls...

Hubby and Sarahbellum are still crafting *lol*

which was cool because just the other day I was complaining that I don't own a flask. Plus I got Rock Band 2, a Johan Santana jersey as well as other assorted DVDs and clothes...all in all not a bad haul

:P

:D

a punching bag and guitar hero.

:patriot:

Now I can listen to, and download, the two boxes of vinyl records that have been stored in my closet for years!!

Old school meets new technology ... How cool.

I have albums I just love that I have not been able to listen to for years, and now I can! :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

Congrats

:bounce:

I didn't even know they made those! And you can download from them, too? HOW COOL IS THAT?!? :wow:

You HAVE to let us know how it works out!

LK got a wii (DOA, being exchanged tomorrow,) a bunch of wii games, some board games, and money. He'll get more tomorrow at his Dad's house.

although I understand that tomorrow night, when she swaps her kids for me, I can expect something extraordinary.

:woohoo:

I am one happy camper today!

Helllll yeah.

I got it for school, mainly. Super portable, good for taking notes and such.

:shrug:

:patriot:

(Night before last I watched the season finale. "Close your eyes... this is such stuff as DREAMS are made of." :scared: )

Forgot just how great that show was.

I thought it was the living bomb.

18 years later: still the living bomb.

Not many things you love when you're 12 have that kind of staying power. :D

My kids' reactions to things. They really express their appreciation for everything they get.

My husband gave my son tickets so they could go to a Blazers' game. My son was so excited and thankful that my husband teared up.

a lovely afternoon with my spouse watching movies, drinking vino and eating chocolate chip cookies...

Best Christmas in YEARS. :toast:

We've managed it, too. He's tinkering on his hobby, I'm cooking which is my hobby. And listening to a recording of a live Toni Price concert with Sonny Landreth to be up next.

Aaaaaah! :hi:

No family celebrations or pretending to be into the "holiday." It's all I wanted and it's what I got. And I got to stay in my jammies. Priceless.

(my mom is giving it to me for my divorce present instead as if I needed any more incentive to go through with it :P )

Of course I got my girls what they wanted (cell phones and digital cameras), but then my jackass brother had to go and get them the Xbox 360 so I might as well have gotten them socks and underwear :rofl:

and a couple of adorable handmade Christmas ornaments from the kidlet.

and a Barbie shoe ornament from Hallmark.

:(

I got the kitchen aid artisan mixer that I stopped asking for years ago and a bread machine. :D

Los Ninos got a Wii and a bunch of games.


I'm pretty sure this means that I'll be spending all day in the kitchen while they sit on their butts and play games.

Best $150 (I bought a floor model of the $300 version) I ever spent.

va va va vooom

If you've got a Ross or Marshalls near you, keep your eye open because sometimes they get the matching kitchen gadgets for pretty cheap.

:D

Best color EVAH.

and my toaster, and panini maker.

agreed... best color EVAH!

I can't wait to use the mixer.

:9

:)

But it's called a wine cellar. :)

dirt floor, lithic walls mined out of the side of the mountain, set below the frost line, humidity-controlled and all. It's too bad that I don't drink wine. I put my washing machine and garden tools in there instead.

the less common and the greater the demand in your area the more they cost. My grandparents paid the mortgage on a 4000sf ft. mountaintop mansion overlooking the Connecticut River Valley and lived comfortably off the rental-income by renting theirs out since neither of them drank.

The first thing we did when we inherited the house was boot out the wine-cellar renters because we didn't like the idea of a dozen keys to the house in the hands of strangers.

A huge box full of hand-made soaps from my oldest daughter! and lotions and lipbalm and etc!

Some beautiful pics of our grandchildren!

Three movies I asked for: The Shawshank Redemption, Across the Universe, and A Concert for George!

And a fabulous paperweight for holding open my books when I'm online and don't have enough hands to hold everything!

I had one of the best Christmases I've ever had...

So much love!

:fistbump:

:D

:(

I'm sorry, sweetie...:hug: :hug:

A rice cooker.

The book "My Stroke of Insight" by Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D.

A datebook for 2009 covered in beige silk chinese brocade.

Ferrero Rocher choco-bombs (the gold foil wrapped candy)

A calendar with pictures of Tuscany. I want to go there some day.

A Towle sterling silver 2008 bell Xmas ornament.

A Wallace sterling silver 2008 bell Xmas ornament.

A gold ball ornament with a small digital screen. My honey uploaded pictures to it and hung it on the tree. He loaded it with pictures of our NYC trip at Xmas 2003.

What I got for my studmuffin:

JOHN LENNON:THE LIFE, by Philip Norman. New biography with new information about John.

An electric skillet to make sukiyaki in.

A new winter jacket.

What else we did:

We have an electric menorah and are lighting it for Hanukkah. (We are both non-religious but love Xmas & any other holiday).

Cooked lots of food: Turkey, dressing, gravy, sweet potatoes with marshmallows on top; pinwheel cookies with walnuts on top; chocolate cream cheese pie.

We couldn't get anybody to come over and eat our food. We moved to East Texas. I have not sold my city house yet. Tomorrow we will take food to some of our friends.

:bounce:

and i got a new bike :)

An Oxford library-grade German dictionary
A new DVD player (nice because my old one crapped out)
A Cuisinart panini grill + gift certificates to the fancy Italian market in Toledo
Some clothes
A couple of DVD's - "The First Saturday in May" and "Once in a Lifetime"

I got to come to my God Daughter's Baptism. It's today.
Duckie

It came at a good time. Our old TV is on its last legs - raster-line rollover, shivering picture, colors are a bit too dark. I would have been fine with a non-HD digital set, but those are getting harder and harder to find, so we might as well take the HD plunge now. It should be fun!

Three-CD set. Now it's all Nat, all the time!

Opted not to buy the big screen TV as monitor replacement (for now) but got some DVD sets.

I LOVE both of them