The 'What did you get for Christmas' Thread

[Rhodes]

I got money, books (images of war the uboat war, clay blair, hitlers uboat war), comics books (the last of the blake and mortimer collection and the last of the wind passengers collection). A shirt, aftershave and shave cream and a bottle of conhac!
Still waiting for the gifts from my girlfriend

[Weiss Pinguin]

I guess we're waiting on breakfast, so here I am passing the time til Zero hour

[frau kaleun]

Happy Winter Solstice Celebration Of Your Choice to everyone!

I gots da followin':

(DVDs)
The Battle of the Atlantic
Art of War

(Books)
The Hunters and the Hunted: German U-boats, 1939-1945
Cannae: Hannibal's Greatest Victory

(Game)
Brothers In Arms: Road to Hill 30

(It is *not* a toy, it's an action figure)
Kung Fu Panda Star Throwin' Po complete with snap-on armor and battle stars

(Obligatory kitteh stuff)
2010 cats calendar
"cat lover" socks
kitty-in-santa-hat ornament

(Obligatory random yummies)
1 box of Wilhelmina peppermints
1 chocolate snowman
1 bar Lindor white chocolate truffles
1 jar Biassac fruit jam
1 gourmet pecan roll (note: it's not Christmas 'til I have my pecan roll, which will very shortly become this morning's breakfast)

(Obligatory practical "I really need these" gifts)
Rubbermaid sink mat for kitchen sink
microfiber dishcloths/towels
refill scrubberheads for my Oxo dish scrubber thingy

(OMGWTFOhnoyoudidn't surprise gift)
Shun 7" Santoku knife, which may very well be the most beautiful thing I have ever seen, and which I fear will never actually be used but only taken out occasionally for veneration purposes

Oh and my brother-in-law got a new job which starts the Monday after New Year's, he's been doing temp seasonal work since October when the place he worked at for 15 years started downsizing, i.e., letting go all the more highly paid longtime employees. Hearing him rewrite every other holiday song to include the phrase "I got a job, fa la la la la" made everything super-special this year.

[frau kaleun]

And apparently I also got a new avatar.

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by GoldenRivet

in review of my post. I wonder what message my family is trying to send me?

[Spike88]

This T-shirt


A T-shirt with a Deer standing infront of a controller connected to a TV playing Pac-Man that says "Big Game Season"

A box of assorted chocolates from the In-laws

A $50 Dollar gift card for publix, of which I've spent 14.99 on alcohol supplies last night. From my Job

And money to buy my laptop with.

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

(OMGWTFOhnoyoudidn't surprise gift)
Shun 7" Santoku knife, which may very well be the most beautiful thing I have ever seen, and which I fear will never actually be used but only taken out occasionally for veneration purposes

Got a picture or a website with a picture? Always interested in beautiful knives.

[Thomen]

Among the usual stuff (nerdy T-Shirts, Books, DVDs and so on)






I will get the belt fed Nerfgun (sold out in our area at the moment).

And, from my parents:
An original and antique...



Which is in the family for something like 3 generations now. Filling out the customs and ATF forms is going to be a pain though.

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Platapus

Got a picture or a website with a picture? Always interested in beautiful knives.

http://www.kershawknives.com/product...249&brand=shun

According to what I've read about Shun knives, the technology used in the blade-making is basically the same as what's used to make katana blades. I've wanted one ever since I heard about them and saw them for the first time... it's always been a "when I have the money" thing which naturally never comes to pass. I have decent kitchen knives which I've acquired over time by picking things up on sale or clearance, but these were always WAY out of my price range plus they're not the kind of things that typically end up in sale or clearance bins, you know? But my sister works in a gigantic international market here, in the specialty department where they sell high-end cookware and cutlery and kitchen gadgets, so she gets a bit of a discount on what they sell there and she asked me last year which one I would get if I had a choice and I told her no way, even the itty bitty paring knife was more money than I wanted her to spend on one gift. This year because of the recession the vendor actually put some of the Shun knives on special to increase sales plus she got her discount plus her husband got what looks like a really good job just last week so they decided to really "make Christmas happen" and surprise me. Boy oh boy was I surprised.

I will probably lose a finger dicing celery but it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make because it's JUST. SO. PURTY.

[frau kaleun]

WANT!!!!!!

I'm not christian nor the breed of pagan that everybody claims invented celebrating the birth of the christian prophet or whatever you people call it. So I don't celebrate x-mas but still someone managed to give me a copy of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. SOC on steam and I bought myself a laptop last week and copy of x3:Terran Conflict to test out the dual core processor on.

[Takeda Shingen]

This:


And some of these:



And a pair of these:

[SgtPotato]

Well I got:

1.) A 100 dollar bill
2.) The Saboteur (PC)
3.) a new leather wallet
4.) We Were Pirates: A Torpedoman's Pacific War book
5.) Uncharted 2: Among Theives (GOTY!)
6.) Castle season one dvd
7.) Guinness hat and t-shirt
8.) some sweaters
9.) Best Buy $50 gift card
10.) a PJ pant

That's pretty much I got for christmas, but I haven't got mine from my mother because the nasty snowing weather struck in my home...

[Shearwater]

Originally Posted by Thomen

Gotta get one of those!
I only got chocolate and money (which is nice, too )

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen

This:

Good to see a man with taste