What did you get for Christmas?

erm, i'm not sure what this sleeveless theme my family has going on about is. i've NEVER worn sleeveless things cause my log arm and my tattoo hangs out.

It's awesome! Really awesome! Also I got several colors of sealing wax and a stamp with my initials, and a big makeup kit (I look like a dragon lady now, all red and brown and scary). Those are the coolest things.

My gran gave suzy and I a selection of flavoured olive oils and assorted anti-pasti. My sister gave me a dice game called perudo that I will lose because it involves dice (cf. monopoly, risk et al.) My brother gave me the office and y tu mama tambien on DVD. My uncle gave me a vacuum cleaner for my car.

OH and FC also brought me a mini slinky, a tangerine, a walnut and a hazelnut.

I will not mention the A A Gill book

love to you all

- taking a ho to the beach, having my wicked way, thus gaining some health, then popping her on the back of the head with a claw hammer to get my money back.*

- jacking a car with a screaming preppy passenger-hostage, revving it right up, flying down to the pier, and launching myself out the left-side door as the car wheeeeeeeees into the ocean with aforesaid asshold in situ.*

- satisfying 'knuckle-dusting' sounds.*

also: BEST EASTENDERS EVER! and other such. I have gin, no ice, no tonic, but lime - what can I do with this?

* - note: these are all 'good', erm, things.

* - note: if hypertransferance should occur etc.

Happy Christmas, ILE.

I'm getting bettah now I think... just in time for dinner!

Not really a bad selection, but only the Calvino excites me.

but the good thing is, I'll be having another christmas tomorrow!!

Low - Christmas
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane over the sea
Tickets to Low and Idlewild
A disc man
50 euro
Roy Keane's book
A new wallet.

Luvverly. But don't worry, I got them nice gifts, also.

i would pay for snow

merry Christmas everyone!

But I got some nice CDs for Christmas, so I listened to them this morning & now I've had Isn't Anything on repeat for the last 6 hours while I read through my backlog of New Yorkers.

but for Chanukah I got new Doc Martens boots (to replace the old Doc Martens boots I've worn straight through)! hooray! plus my mom got me a small box of really good marzipan, as usual.

superman dailies 1939-42
sweater that's too big for me, and suitably ugly.
for my birthday my aunts gave me a $50 gift card to penzey's spices, which is awesome.

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whoever gave you krazy kat has good taste!

It's been on my Wish List for about 5 years!

That Alex Ross book looks interesting, may have to use some of my vouchers on it.

It's really, really good.

Oh, I almost forgot a cool gift -- my daughter found a label for Dharma Beer on the web, bought some label stock, and turned a six-pack of Sierra Nevada into a sixer of Dharma.

I forgot this too..

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all 3 boys: Wii
me: some money, an electric shaver, and a few little goodies from the Science Museum gift shop (a tradition that has gone back years). :D

I got some toiletries, a kit bag for rugby, a nice mancala board, and $500.00 dollars in Banana Republic gift certificates. I have no idea what I’ll get with the gift certificates. Maybe a pair of shoes and some after shave.

I’m still waiting on a present from my girlfriend.

To echo, the Alex Ross book is a must for everyone on this board.

Sadly, not out in the UK until March. One for the wish list I think.

bottle Knob Creek
bottle Maker's Mark
subscription Popular Mechanics
Primer DVD
Jim Beam marinade / barbeque sauce set
socks
2 flannels
die cast Boba Fett statuette (???)
cigar cutter
33 1/3 book, Piper At The Gates of Dawn

Pretty good haul. My mom gave me the John Ashcroft book, Never Again, that you can buy at the dollar store now, presumably as a joke. I've been drunk by 11am every day I've been here. Thanks, Dad!

Billy, can't you order it from Amazon US? I'd think that with the exchange rate, Britishes would be all over American e-tailers.

I got a lomo fisheye thing and some socks and a dvd and a record and shit!

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oh and £70ish quid in cash/Waterstones giftcard malarkey.

digital camera
jarmusch boxset
money
vouchers for clothes
itouch cover

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a membership here

and assorted clothes, candles, tea, make-up, hair products, etc.

gun
cookbook
American Express gift card
Best Buy gift card
This lame-ass little table tripod thing from brother. Not even in the 'thought that counts' category because this is some "picked up at walgreens on the way" crap.

Aerogrow hydroponic garden thing (labeled as kitchen garden appliance). It is living in the bathroom, its lights are too bright to be in the main part of the loft. And it wakes up at 4 am.
homemade cookies and massive giant cookbook of spanish recipes (thx secret santa!)
fragile looking clear glass teapot - will probably not survive
amaryllis bulb and sprouter thing
big bottle of Corzo tequila + 4 shot glasses
bottle of M&C champagne (have to share with Mr. Jaq)
Complete Persepolis (opened early and read so hard and so fast it gave me eyestrain)
Book of letters between those crazy Mitford sisters
DVD of Ratatouille
donations to Heifer International

digital camera
framed Georgia O'Keeffe print
clothing
assorted lipsticks, lip gloss, and makeup brushes
vast amounts of chocolate
first season of X Files on DVD
a Barefoot Contessa cookbook
Bizet's Carmen on cd (Maria Callas)
other random stuff I'm not remembering

Weirdest gift: a nut chopper
(there's a kitchen gadget for everything, I guess)

Weirdest gift: a nut chopper

NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

lol, that's right - DON'T CROSS ME GUYS

novelization of gremlins 2 the new batch

leather bag
gold pen
crystal beer glasses, x4
'great beers of europe' six-pack
bottle of vodka
$25

Fuju persimmon tree :)
Bunch of cash.
Two sweaters.
Couple of boxes of turron candy from this Spanish lady I knew growing up.
On of them hands free can openers.
50 lottery tickets I haven't touched yet.
Some pineapple cutter thingy or something.
Some crap/nut opener stuff.
Chevy's gift card.

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and a HMV gift card

garrincha bottle-opener plz (with one leg longer than the other and a 700-post ILX thread to follow plz)

Check for $1K and a bunch of stuff I can't remember now.

From Parents:

Jewelry
Robe
PJs
Perume
Handbag
gloves
money

From Husband:

MAC gift card
Gift certificate for manicure at Aveda

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mario galaxy
zelda phantom hourglass
dusty springfield complete a and b sides
david fromkin's a peace to end all peace
maltese falcon dvd

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i got a can of black beans and a can of kidney beans in my stocking

i quietly stashed them among my mom's many other cans of beans rather than take them on the plane. i mean i like beans well enough but

my parents didn't get me anything because my birthday is less than a month away from xmas (they got me a pair of nice headphones i'd asked for). my bf got me a subscription to the latest version of the online chicago manual of style, with came with a print edition.

"with" = which

Peter Watkins DVD set, Amer DVD, Arden edition of Twelfth Night, bottle of Plum, Port and Habanero sauce

I Claudius, Strauss operas box set, Harmonia Mundi baroque box set, Jake Thackray DVD, Borowczyk short films, Where There's Love There's Hate, The Military Orchid, Nairn's London, soaps, candles, etc

The same CD I bought for my husband

Truffaut/Hitchcock
Ruhlman/Polcyn's book on charcuterie
A jacket and a bunch of Trader Joe's snacks from my boss. She gives me a jacket every damn year -- how fast does she think jackets wear out?

nothing

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:)

a kimono
a book of japanese onomatopoeia
a dinosaur xmas ornament
socks
a santeria charm

an actual immersion blender.

chocolate

5 pounds of veal

lol

nice

framed poster
neato battery backup for iphone
tickets to see X at the Fillmore tonight
an australian flag apron from mum lool

I found all the gifts from ten years ago charmingly early 2000's

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i.e. the last ever gig by the jim jones revue, and a bottle of vodka with jamie hewlett artwork on it.

well chuffed.

"Maybe I'll try that Amazon wish list thing!"

In my family, we've just circulated those wish lists for about seven years now. We're pretty atheistic when it comes to holidays. It's the food and drink that matters.