Target Imperial Shuttle
Barnes & Noble Gift Card
Shower Clock/Radio
Hockey & Football cards
Weird Al's new CD
DVDs: Time Bandits, Ice Pirates, and Flash Gordon (pretty sure it's a bootleg)
Shirt
Age of Empires III expansion
The kids got a bunch of toys, and holy crap was there a lot of twist ties holding those damm things in.
If there were no twist ties, there'd be no way for us geek-dads to (in a publically acceptable manner, anyhow) demonstrate our absurdly refined manual dexterity.
Besides the Wii and Best Buy gift card from work, I got a nice jacket from the exec producers. It came in handy when I flew back to Iowa.
From my Roommate: Alias Season 5 DVD, 24 Season 5 DVD, Family Guy Volume 4 DVD, and Zelda for Wii. She had originally got me Smallville Season 5 instead of Family Guy, but when she got it home she looked and saw it already perched on my DVD shelf, having recieved it gratis from Tollin/Robbins Productions. They produce both Smallville and One Tree Hill. So i went back and got Family Guy instead.
From my family: My sis got me Marvel Alliance for the Wii. My other sis got me a Customizable Marvel Monopoly game where you decide who's on Boardwalk and the other properties. Which is a cool idea, but i hate Monopoly having not finished a game of it in twenty years, so I'm going to exchange it. A shirt from my parents and the usualHallmark Star Wars ornaments that have become a tradition. I'm not that into Star Wars anymore, but i don't have the heart to tell my mom because it's an easy gift for her to me, and I have all the others, soo...My other, other sister, the toy buyer, got free swag from her Hasbro rep and I got the new 20thA Prime DVD Edition. That's the Prime, not the DVD. i don't know if it qualifies as a Christmas gift, but it's pretty fuckin' cool. I have a cool sister, with a fuckin' cool job!
From my kids: Hugs and kisses for a whole week. That's what this whole holiday has been about for me. I got to spend time with them. I've missed them so much for the past six months, so all that other stuff i can take or leave. They also gave me a $30 Best Buy gift card which was icing on the cake.
"Say Jim! WHOOOO! That is a bad outFIT! Whooo!"--Pimp, Superman The Movie "You're an idiot, Starscream." --Megatron,Transformers: The Movie
Revenge of the Sith Visual Dictionary - I've been asking for this since July 2005.
Firefly: The Official Companion Volume 1 - Sort of a behind-the-scenes/Art of/script (for the fiest 6 episodes book. Shiny.
PS2 games: Bully, Medal of Honor: Rising Son, and NHL 07 - I have too many damn games I ain't finished playing yet already.
DVDs: An Evening with Kevin Smith 1 & 2, Family Guy Volume 4, and Lancelot Link: The Complete Series - Kevin Smith, Peter Griffin, and monkeys? Can't go wrong there.
Darth Vader Unleashed - Probably should have waited three weeks until they go on clearance, but oh well, wasn't my money.
Electric Razor - my old one died a few months ago and it has been killing me (and my face) to use a regular ass razor.
$100 or so in cash and gift cards - which I'm thing about spending on Guitar Hero 2 (yeah, another game).
Some clothes - I actually asked for some clothes...I'm getting old.
"As they say in China, 'Arrivederci'!"
*For the creation of the Golden Deuce Award.
The Making of ESB Book
Hallmark Emperor/Vader ornament
Hallmark Snowspeeder ornament
Hallmark Lando Ornament
2011 Star Wars page-a-day calendar
DVD Family Guy It's a Trap
DVD The Office Digital Shorts Collection
Bluray / CD Alice Cooper Theater of Death
Bruce Springsteen CD / DVD gift set for Darkness on the Edge of Town
CD John Mellencamp No Better Than This
an assortment of gift cards and other odds n ends, I just listed the Fanboy stuff above...I made quite a haul this year and feel kinda guilty about it, being 32 and all.
I got two Marvel-centric t-shirts. One was a vintage looking Marvel Team-up on a blue field and the other was a recreation of the cover Avengers Initiative #1 with Iron Man flanked by about 1000 heroes.
I got Hasbro Family Gamenight for the X-box.
And finally, I got the DC Chronicle book. Like the Marvel version I got a couple years ago, its a year by year recap of DC since the 30s. Very cool. And that was it.
But for Boxing day, I went out for deals today and got Lost season 6, Psyche season 4, a clearanced Lego Airport, and a $25 gift card to BN. Which I will most likely use on that GIJoe Guide I've been eyeing.
"Say Jim! Whoo! That is a bad outfit! Whoooo!" -- Pimp, Superman The Movie "You're an idiot, Starscream." -- Megatron, Transformers:The Movie
I got my PS3 with early Christmas money and saved money last month (with a few games).
On Christmas, I got:
A bunch of clothes (t-shirts, jeans, hoodie)
Shoes In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash by Jean Shepard (The book used as the basis for A Christmas Story).
Mad Men season 1
Red Wings Tickets (Jan 2 vs. Philadelphia)
Avatar 3 disc Blu-Ray
Target gift card (bought Family Guy volume
Applebees gift card
And a few other things I'm forgetting.
"As they say in China, 'Arrivederci'!"
*For the creation of the Golden Deuce Award.
It's late, I just drove two hours (well, a shitload more, given that we stopped and hit a lot of stores to look for deals, especially on ornaments to replace all the broken ones), so this list will be partial. So I'll tell you what comes to mind immediately and fill in later....
Books:
The Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 (YESS!!!!)
Earth: The Book
Boardwalk Empire
Wii games:
Lego Indiana Jones 2
Wii Party
Clothes:
an awesome shirt
Corona cap/flip-flop combo (my wife told me she knew I'd prefer the Guinness one, but it looked ugly, and this one looked cool)
underwear (and you know you're old when you actually appreciate that gift)
Miscellaneous:
Harry Potter light-up wand
shower head
Amazon gift card
Kindle (shared with the Mrs--thank God, I was worried we were getting two, but now it might actually get some use)
a shit-ton of diapers (honest to God, probably the best of the bunch, given how much they cost and that Anarky III goes through sixty or so an hour)
hot sauce
barbecue sauce
*--For behavior unbecoming anyone, perpetrated in real time over an extended--AH, FUCK IT! MORE MALIBU, BITCHES!!
Doilies? I'm not going to ask as long as you don't tell.
I got:
Big Lebowski DVD (10th Anniv)
Gift card for Sears/KMart (Family White Elephant gift exchange - I stole it from my mom)
Hockey Cards
Tiny Turbo Legos
a set of Space Police Legos
Cobra Mantis
Tropico 3 for the PC
Gym Shirt & Shorts
2 McFarlane hockey figures (Lanny McDonald & Ryan Miller)
My 9 year old gave me a statue of a Giraffe. (long story stemming from an incident at a zoo, but it was a gag gift.)
My 5 year old gave me a Transformer toy she got from McDonalds. (aparently they were out of girl toys).
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