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For Christmas of course. I got some cool things, but my favorite has to be a nerf N-strike my wife bought me. Ive been machine gunning the crap out of my kids all morning! ITS BEEN GREAT!

That and my son can be a SM scout for xmas with a real looking heavy bolter

So whatd you get that your glad you got?

I got money this year, so bought meself some DVDs, namely Star Trek, Terminator Salvation, Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince, and GI Joe, which was nowhere near as cack as I'd feared, and I really rather enjoyed.

My family was instructed to conform to the GW boycott until after January (when I gotta go pick up my own damn stuff anyway!)

That being said I didnt do too shabby, nothing HUGE but I'm happy with Video games, Blu-Ray's, and books....

Star Trek Season 3 (blu-ray)
Inglourious Basterds (blu-ray)
Heat (blu-ray)
Wolverine (blu-ray)
The Road (book)
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (book)
Intro to Philosophy (book)
Slow-cooker cookbook
Star Trek Uno
A REAL popcorn popper...stovetop, no microwave or hot air BS...cook it with oil and heat, it tastes 100% better and worth the trouble
finally, my 2nd X-box 360 controller
800 microsoft points and 3 months X-box live access
A Scooby-Doo Throw Blanket (So? I like Scooby Doo! So what!? )
A nice haul of clothes from Old Navy
Some cool Boxers

I got Pikmin one and two for the Wii (aka the little white box of disappointment, hoping the games are alright (played Pikmin 1 when it was on the Gamecube and it was alright, I was actually surprised to see that they had been remade for the Wii) and it doesn't live up to the reputation it has earned) some Naruto 360 game and $50. Grandparents gave me $50, a shirt and some chocolates.

Pretty good Christmas actually; spent at my Grandparents house as usual.

I got an eviction notice.

No GW stuff other than some Death Guard conversion kits that are on order from Forgeworld.
Several books (all Zombie related)including "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies."
A gak ton of cool clothes.
All and all not a bad haul.

A...suprise when I woke up this morning from my girlfriend, I'll leave you to figure that one out.

3 Leman Russ Demolisher Kits arrived in the mail off ebay for $120 dollars.

Around 20 Guardsmen aswell.

Along with some clothes from my GF, wasn't that bad. She was overjoyed when I got her a ring I found laying on the floor....turned out it was easily worth $2000

Oh, Chicago Street Corner, why do you give me so many good thing?

Not much here.

A copy of the Avatar game (meh ) that will probably run like frozen treacle on my PC and a wind up torch

But I did get a nice bottle of Jack Daniels, that should take the edge of things

An Ipod, false moustaches (I'm going to school as Burt Reynolds when the break ends), cash(sweet!), cool clothes, gift card to Borders,
and a few books.

Working through xmas so having ours on New Year (quadrouple celebration- new year, xmas, my birthday and my sons birthday as he's going to be with us as well).
Do know my better half has an original oil painting of a winter scene I really like for me though...
Mick

I got a rock...

Seriously though, I've had a pretty good haul this morning (Still have a few more to open when my mom's family comes over later today).

Star Trek (Movie)
Riddick Trilogy (Pitch Black, Dark Fury, and the inaptly named Chronicles of Riddick)
Black Cat (Anime series. It is AWESOME, by the way)
Resident Evil 4 (PS2)
No More Heroes (Wii - though sadly I can't play it, as my Wii stopped reading discs a month ago and I haven't had the funds to fix it yet :( )
Dead Rising (Xbox 360)
Assassin's Creed (Xbox 360)
World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King calendar (Wanted one for Heroes, but apparently B&N didn't have any at the time)
$25 gift card to AMC Theatres (Which is 5 movie trips for me - I never buy snacks, and only ever go during the week for the $5 discount price)
On This Perfect Day (CD by the new band Guilt Machine)
Space Wolf: The Second Omnibus (Sadly I don't have the first one - my mom misread my wishlist and got me the second by mistake. Luckily the first is only $10 at B&N)
Mechanicum (Book)
Tales of Heresy (Book)
Assortment of chocolates

I know, a whole bunch of oldie titles for my various game systems, but shut up, I never had a chance to buy them before. Only got access to my brother's 360 a year ago, and most of my budget has been going towards 40k...

Oh, and I also got a t-shirt that reads "MLIA: Life is pretty normal today." (A reference to this site)

I suspect Karon will win this thread.

I got a card. Huzzah.

Christmas this year was a very rewarding experience. I received the following from friends and family:
Johnnie Walker Black
Talisker 10 Year
The Balvenie Signature 12 Year
Shiner Bock
A lovely French Port style wine that is dangerously easy to drink
Cologne
A nice Seiko watch
money
miscellaneous gift certificates
Star Trek
and an ink well pen set

So, between my consumption of copious amounts of alcohol, I will be able to: pen my thoughts, check the time and buy items online

Jeb are you an alcohol aficionado? Thats alot of booze my friend

Yea The machine gun thing I got was the vulcan fully automatic dealy-o I had a good laugh when my wife opened up on the damn cat (still made it broke my prized orkses......)

Had another xmas party after I wrote this thread, got popcorn tin (YES!) some gift cards and played the best prank on one of my brothers.

(Short intro story)
The house he bought came with these weird triple bells-things on the front door. SO for over a year now, I would take them off the door, and hide them in random places. His freezer, stove (guess how he found it in there, heres a hint, it took oven mits to get them out MWAHAHAHAA) in his pillow case you get the idea. SO last night I snuck over and stole them, just to wrap them as his xmas present. It was friggin HILARIOUS!

And a Merry Christmas for one last time

Around 115 in Euro, so pretty cool.

However, I've got an after X-mas surprise for a certain someone, her reaction will definitely be my X-mas gift.

KingCracker wrote:Jeb are you an alcohol aficionado? That's a lot of booze my friend

For all intensive purposes...yes. I am a sales representative for a massive beverage company and I am a private hobbyist when it comes to Wine and Liquor, especially single malt Scotches. I love expanding my Scotch collection almost as much as I love adding to my W40K armies.

150$ i am a happy little man

Nothing.

The last chunk of my Cadian 82nd "Strike" regiment, the paints needed for it and a Scout Sergeant Telion to paint to break up the monotony of a mass of Kasrkin/Guardsmen in respirators.

Oh. Yeah.
And a nice flexible brunette who I used to date had an erm...interesting present.

But I digress. Woohoo stuff to paint!

Sidstyler wrote:Nothing.

*Hugs!
You got a hug now!

Well 3 games. a fountain. 100 dollers(50 from aunt 50 from mom) to the game store.
A cool clock.. a giants hat. hotsauce.

*Hugs!
You got a hug now!

AHHH GET IT OFF GET IT OFF!!!

lol, kidding. Thanks for that, though I feel I have to point out I didn't mean to say it in a way to try and garner sympathy, I was just saying I literally got nothing. Well, present-wise.

It's been a tough year for everyone. That and I never buy stuff for anyone else so I really shouldn't get anything anyway.

Got me a pretty sweet haul this year. Comes out to:
2 T-shirts/button-up overshirts
2 pairs of good pants
3 Godhammer Land Raiders
2 Ork Kommandos with Burnas
1 Boss Snikrot
1 Nob with Waaagh! Banner
WH40K Apocalypse rulebook
25 dollar i-Tunes gift card
50 dollar Cyborg 1 gift card (my FLGS - mainly for comics, but they sell some GW stuff too)
Pop-tarts (Frosted Blueberry ftw!)
50 dollars from my aunt
500 dollars from my grandmother

And my favorite present, a Canon EOS Elan 7 35mm film camera. Can't wait to take this baby for a spin.

Meh, I got a book on Military Law and The Book Of War. And 40$ all up from various relatives.

I bought others some Yugi-Oh Cards (Bro 1), a Clone Trooper (Bro 2), a Wood Carving Statuette (Mum) a DAD: The Man, The Myth, The Legend T-Shirt. (Guess who that was for...). Overall I'm pretty chuffed that I gave as good as I got.

After my mom's Christmas party (Her side of the family is about twice as large as my dad's side of the family) I've got a few more things to add to my collection:

Case Closed Season 3 (Anime)
Heroes Season 2 (Which is my favorite show of all time at the moment)
A new cookbook
Oh, and another $25 gift card to AMC theatres...meaning I've got a good 10 movies that I can go see over the next year or so. Already got the list pretty much planned out based on IMDb's list of upcoming movies. Sherlock Holmes, Iron Man 2, and the new Alice in Wonderland are all high on my list, though I may decide to go see Avatar again...

I got..

wait for it...


Slippers! real brown tartany old man slippers, dead pleased with them, they go with the pipe that my wide and kids got me a few birthdays ago!

On a more mundane note I also received
Moleskine Journal
Cash
Book - Unseen Academicals
special pressies from wife.

I have also adopted the Nerf gun santa got for one of my boys!

All righty...

1 Space Wolf battle force
2 CSM vindicators
1 Typhus
2 SOB with heavy bolters
And to put icing on this 40k cake.

10 Space wolf Wulfen

On top of that, a camo long sleeve shirt and camo fleece pants
A really nice gun case
The dark knight with cool little clown head thing
Various other odds and tasty ends (mmmmm slim Jims)

and we had a Christmas miracle occur... one of my GF's dads dog ran away 2 weeks ago when the temp was below zero, we were all sure he did the death run. BUT we get a call from animal control, in the middle of opening presents, saying that someone found him then right at that moment IT STARTED TO SNOW .... white Christmas after all


o... and have not celebrated christmaas with my faimly yet... methinks some $$ is comming my way, but who knows..

No idea. Been out here on a derrick barge for over a month. Ex-wife got me something that wont fit under the tree, and she couldnt wrap. I haveno idea wht it is. To be honest, given the ex part of the equation, I dunno why she got me anything anyway.


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I'll let you know when I find out. but I dunno when I am getting home.

Usual gak really

Money from some, drink and DVD's from others.
also, got a random FW order on the way too, which all i know came to around £90 ish 0_o

Me thinks the GF done shopping on my card lol.

grizgrin wrote:No idea. Been out here on a derrick barge for over a month. Ex-wife got me something that wont fit under the tree, and she couldnt wrap. I haveno idea wht it is. To be honest, given the ex part of the equation, I dunno why she got me anything anyway.


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I'll let you know when I find out. but I dunno when I am getting home.

Uh oh,

I'd view that present from an Ackbar perspective.

It's a Trap!