we don't open gifts early here... however i did recieve my bass and amp early... but those were birthday/christmas

so far, i've opened my stocking to find CHRISTMAS CANDY!

tommrow i'm going to my boyfriends house, and apparently there are 5 gifts for me sitting under there tree 0.o.... i, i dont know what to do, i was expecting someitng from my boyfriend, but 5... dam. what do i do??? i got his parrents a popcorn tin

well it's still christmas eve here (actually no, it's "officailly" christmas since it's about 1:30 AM, but still) but we usually open up one gift on Christmas Eve. So I got character shoes!!

I opened mine tonight. Got a polo sweater..****ing awesome. A few dress shirts, and some money. Great xmas

So far...

• PC Gamer Issue
• $20
• Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell (The Book)
• A Candy Cane
• A Donut
• A Five Dollar Gift Card to Sheetz (Convenience store exclusive to my area)

This morning at 8-ish we'll open more.

I've just come back from festive looting and netted

- Copious amounts of sugar
- A shock thingy
- £200
- Puzzle thingies
- A metre of Jaffa Cake thing
- Plush Cthulhu

<3 my plush Cthulhu.

[QUOTE=- Tony -]
- Plush Cthulhu[/QUOTE]


:jealous:

i got
Quake 4
Call of Duty 2
Doom 3 (xbox)
jar of peanuts

I got a Nintendo DS and MarioKart DS from my dad early, since I wouldn't see him during Christmas (I got myself Super Mario 64 DS with a Best Buy gift card a friend of mine got me--he goes/has gone by Scur/Masetto on the forums).

Mostly I got cash/money (wewt, nothing like being loaded), but I also got the following:

-Kyle (from South Park) figurine (how ironic <_<)
-Harry Potter mug (I like the shape, it's kind of \_/ instead of |_| which I find cool)
-A small ceramic-ish cup that looks like the Holy Grail
-A light brown T-shirt from Camden Market (I'll see about a photo with me wearing it sometime)
-incense sticks
-Peanuts Halloween/Thanksgiving/Christmas DVD set
-I got a rock -- er, no wait, that's Charlie Brown <_<
-Muvico tickets (2)

I have yet to get my gifts from my sister yet -- she didn't think it'd make sense to lug it to England just to lug it back. I'm sure there's stuff I'm forgetting here...

- Wah Pedal
- At least 80' of instrument cord
- A new black leather studded belt
- Some Gorilla Snot (I really wanted to try that stuff out!)
- A goodie box OVERFLOWING with sugar-filled delights
- Pencils and assorted art supplies
- A new Sharp stereo w/300W of bass, for my *new* bedroom.
- A 2 hr 31 min makeout session with my girlfriend...yes, I timed it.

Mountain Bike
Bike rack for car
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell book (YEAH)
Phillip shaving system
Alarm clock
$50 worth of FutureShop gift cards
$15 Canadian Tire gift card
$40 from family
Clothes
Lots of shower stuff and deoderant
Car safety kit
Corvette metal tribute 'poster'
PC Gamer Jan 06 mag
Enough candy to supply every corner store in Canada for 6 months

Broadband?

No. 56k still. My dream of playing anything but WoW online has yet come true. ****ing hurts to go from broadband for 3 years back to 56k. Ugh.

There is a ISP that supposidly can get wireless internet to 90% of my county but, I keep forgetting to look into it. Dumb really.

- A digital camera!
- a harmonica
- a bunch of books
- a t-shirt
- a USB flash-drive
- a small pile of refined sugar
- playing cards
Oh and I'm going kayaking with my little bro tomorrow morning. So cold. Good thing it's not been a white christmas!

What mountain bike did you get, Sol?

A digital camera
TV tuner (from my brother)
wireless mouse (also from my brother)
clothes
a picture of the Eiffel Tower signed by the artist (it's a gorgeous picture)
Avenue Q soundtrack
"A World of Imponderables" - When did wild poodles roam the earth, Do penguins have knees, and How does Asprin find a headache, all in one big book
snowflake necklace
...lots of other stuff, I kind of struck big this year, I just can't think of what else

-Calender. Every damn year I get another calender.

-Faulty Towers DVD

-A sweatshirt.

-A book about movie filming.

That's it.

Olympus D-435 Digital Camera
- 5.1 Megapixel with micro-smoothing
- Digital 4x Zoom
- 10 Shooting Modes (Program Auto, Auto, Movie, Beach & Snow, Self Portrait, Sport, Night Scene, Landscape, Landscape + Portrait, Portrait)

<-- This rules

Also, I got some C++ books, and money.

I kind of woke up not really wanting to check this thread; I'm not expecting much this christmas aside from an MX518 and a cheap logitech headset I got for the mic.

but It's actually done the opposite and made me feel better.

supposedly theres a few more things, I'm pretty sure they're just small stuff though.

I got:
-The shanghai knights DVD
-Battlefield 2 (woo!)
-an electric blanket. (which I am currently using.)
-Age of Empires III
- a calculator
-a waffle maker (we both gave eachother waffle makers :p)
-choclate.
-Starship tycoon... anyone heard of it? I haven't.
-chapstick
-and some photographs of famous dead dudes and stuff.

Oh yeah, I do know I'm getting darwinia.

20.1'' widescreen lcd monitor
starwars ep1,2 dvds
a ****LOAD of clothes (express italian wool blazer, calvin klein brown suede jacket for spring, some nice dress shirts from banana republic/calvin klein, some pimpass green cord's, other pants, italian merino scarf, and other misc. stuff like more shirts)
sonicare toothbrush ( )
handles of smirnoff green apple twist, malibu mango, and malibu coconut
a dime

returning:
world of warcraft
60-day game card
belkin tunecast ii fm transmitter

... they gave me razor blades for my mach 3, soap, and vanilla soy milk.

-Sony Cybershot digital camera 3.2 megapixel and assorted accessories (wide angle lense, carrying case, 512 meg memory stick)
-Progressive scan DVD player with built in memory card readers
-Assorted clothes
-Assorted books
-Ratcheting multi-headed screwdriver!

I did okay this year.

Merry Christmas from Liverpool, UK!

My list:
- Snow Crash
- Art of Deception
- PES 5
- Empire Earth 2
- Smackdown! vs RAW 2006 (I don't care what anyone says about wrestling; the games are fun :p)
- Ultimate Matrix Collection
- Box set of Monty Python movies
- Family Guy series 1+2
- Hair straighteners
- Various toiletries
- Money
- Chocolate!

All in all, not too shabby

[QUOTE=Michael MacFarlane]Opened the traditional first gift tonight. I got wireless headphones, which rule. :D[/QUOTE]

The rest of the big items:
- 5.0 megapixel digital camera
- Flannel-lined and fleece-lined jeans for the Chicago winter
- Ear-warmer headphones, also for the Chicago winter (yes, I did get two sets of headphones for Christmas)
- Very nice sweater from my sister, also for the Chicago winter
- leather-bound copy of the complete Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, very classy
- Airplane DVD
- $50 iTunes gift card

CDs
Miles Davis - *****es Brew
Miles Davis - 'Round About Midnight
John Coltrane - Giant Steps

Clothes
A pair of Jeans
a few dress shirts
gloves
boxers

A few books
A bunch of candy
a Subwoofer to complete the surround system I've created in my room
and finally, a toy parrot that repeats what you say...

so, my parakeets gave me a present, another baby bird

$270
$25 Ranger Joes gift card
Camouflage T-Shirt
SDSU Sweatshirt (from my sister who goes there)
Forest Gump DVD
Jimi Hendrix pajama pants
Bushrag Ghillie Suit
The Cosby Show 1st Season
"Support Our Troops" T-Shirt
ammunition for my Mosin Nagant (7.62 x 54R)

If I think of anything else I'll update it

All I got was my two fwont teeth.

And Myst IV and a digital camera too.

Lots and lots of Cadbury's!

I got the following:

- A copy of Guild Wars
- Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki OAV 3 "Here comes the bride"
- Ghost in the Shell: Special Edition
- A Zenith VCR (badly needed one since my last one can't record)
- A tin of Popcorn with Star Wars EpIII artwork

Books
A man without a country - Kurt Vonnegut
The lies of George W. Bush - David Corn
The world is flat: A brief history of the 21st Century - Thomas L. Friedman
The Chronicles of Narnia (All of em') - C.S. Lewis
George Carlin 2006 Calender

DVDs
Pulp Fiction: Collector's Edition
Serenity
Family Guy: Vol. 3.


CDs
Thelonius Monk w/ Coltrane at Carnigie Hall (Lost recording, found, awesome)
Green - R.E.M

Other Stuffs
Logitech G15 Keyboard (Backlit, extra keys, media controls)
1 GB Flash Drive
A couple shirts I wont wear
Scrabble: Deluxe Edition (For everyone, kind of)
A new blanket, and new sheets/comforter for my new bed (Just completely remodeled our house)
$20 to Crown Theatres, $40 to Best Buy

I gots me:

- A wicked African Serengetti (sp?) stein
-Black Hawk Down: Special Edition
-Apocalypse Now: Redux
-A Family Guy drinking game pint glass
-$2000 from my grandfather
-A sweater

I am pleased

My list here.

Let's see...

PSP games:
Kingdom of Paradise
Prince of Persia: revolutions

PSP movies:
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Serenity

DVD's
Family guy: Stewie griffen's untold story
Serenity
Batman Begins (Fullscreen wth?)
Cinderella man (awesome movie)

Other stuff:
New TV with DVD/VHS built in to replace my broken TV
Picture frame to frame my autographed pictures of me and the serenity cast.

I have recieved Serenity on DVD, five bucks, a mug, and a set of mini-screwdrivers.

Theoretically, I have the following coming to me:
A three-piece set of Jeweler's Pliers
A Bench Clamp
A Hand-Drill
A set of Jumpring Mandrels
Jeweler's Sawblades
Sterling Silver Lobster Clasps
Assorted beads
$100 of 16 and 18 gauge Sterling Silver half-hard wire
A registered domain
A year of webhosting
Floor to ceiling curtains
A box of leather
$30
A painting

got a few things... my family has never been big on gifts, so we do more stuff together at christmas time instead (tons of movie outings, fun cookie baking, caroling, etc)

- Serenity DVD (mum got me FS! had to wait two days for walmart to open so i could swap for the WS)
- Blade DVD was in my stocking
- Eldest (sequel to Eragon)
- 20 Questions little game thingy... because i fell in love with it at my chorus director's house. going to take it on bus trips with the chorus
- nifty zip-up hoodie that's REALLY soft and actually long enough (i'm super tall)
- $50 Discover gift card from grandma... bought WoW with it
- Cadbury's bar (hard to find in this part of the states...) and generic other choclate
- pack of mechanical pencils... because i told my parents i kept stealing them from michelle and ryan back at college hehe ;D

most importantly i got to come home and be with my family... oh and my sis is coming back to school with my brother and me! so i'm very happy about that (=

Minus The Bear - Highly Refined Pirates CD
Sigur Ros - Takk... CD
Republic Commando PC game
Painkiller PC game
KOTOR II PC game (I still don't have the first one)
2 Foxtrot books
Dilbert book
$120 total from family
$25 iTunes gift card

i made out like a bandit:

DVD's:
Predator 1 + 2
Terminator 1 + 2
Aliens
Happy Gilmore
Epi 1 + 2
Black Hawk Down
Lake Placid
28 Days Later

4.0 mpzl Digital Camera

Leather chair for my computer desk @ School

northface fleece jacket

clothes

dustbuster vaccuum

ipod shuffle armband - for working out

various underarmour workout gear

All in all twas' a great christmas