I got a GPS. That, and a small Amazon gift certificate. That’s about it. Good stuff. I wasn’t expecting the GPS. I hadn’t asked for it or anything and it’s a nice model. I can make use of that.
I got a body work hammer, The Simpsons Movie, a Wallet and some cash and a gift card for Auto Zone and Best Buy.
My wife got 2 giant remotes. How cool is that? lol
I got them for her because she misplaces them often.
The best thing that I got was a factory cargo liner for my Outback and the coolest thing I got was the Bladerunner limited edition 5-disc DVD set; the one that comes in the replicant checker case. In between those I got a new sleeping bag which was much needed, a really cool beer drinkers multi-tool, and my 4-year old niece who was born on my birthday gave me 4 cans each of Jones Candy Corn soda and the Jones Lemon Drop Dead soda. I’m looking forward to the Lemon Drop Dead soda, not so much on the candy corn flavored stuff, though.
I got some super comfy slippers, some pajamas and sweats for end of pregnancy and post-baby comfort, a couple of books, some kitchen stuff including a set of new glasses. My husband and I also got his and hers Frye boots. His are standard man boots and mine are sexy, hot lady boots. Love ‘em.
FiFi and I have a little tradition that we started last year. Instead of throwing money around to avoid having to think about the gift, we each take $100 and buy five gifts. Not 4, not 6, but 5. You have to use the whole $100, but not go over (well, tax and all is ok). This year, I added a little challenge… nothing made in China or Mexico. Whew, that was hard!!! I got Harley boot socks, Laura Ingrams new book, private room hot-tub gift cert. (guess what that “comes” with), Harley mug with guardian bell, and The Forty Year Old Virgin unrated.
My kids need one of those RR, however they would still manage to lose the battery cover.
I got an HD DVD player to go with our new 58” Plasma (the Plasma’s not for Christmas, we are remodeling, and the one thing I got to pick was the TV). I also got to put my first Tricycle together, that was fun.
I posted this originally on the “Merry Christmas” thread, but it seems more appropriate here:
Santa brought me: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, Ratatoille, Harry Potter VI, Quigley Down Under, Alien Intelligence, Max Dugan Returns and a stand mixer. (The stand mixer was a peace offering. Himself burned out my hand mixer making cookies a couple weeks back, and finally realized why I’ve been mumbling about getting a stand mixer for years.)
Our kids got together and bought each of us a remote car starter. The only problem is Himself has to install the damn things. On the other hand, since we’ve got those and one of the kids got a real good deal on a used snowblower and gave it to Himself for Christmas, I guarantee there will not be any measureable snow in Omaha for the rest of the winter, nor will the temperature dip much below freezing. All last week I would have killed for a remote starter. It was awful damn cold and awful damn windy.
EDIT: And I also got the complete second season of House.
They’re small, cheap, indoor-use RC control helicopters. They’re about as big as a model car and weigh only a few ounces, so they won’t do much damage other than knocking knick-knacks over when you crash them (...and you will crash them (:-)> ).
Clothes. Oh, and remastered “Bladerunner.” And a mini RC heli-go-chopper.
Milady got a laptop. She’s thrilled.
I want one of those heli-go-choppers!!!
I call ‘em “smile machines.” Cheap, good, clean fun.
Does it work well? I didn’t want to buy one until I found out.
As to me… hmmm.
Pressure cooker, some plastic gun thingies to put my Wii controllers into, Simpsons video game, and grapefruit spoons (which, I’d been looking for but couldn’t find… need them since I have a grapefruit tree and can’t seem to cut out the segments with knife / spoon)....
I got a GPS. That, and a small Amazon gift certificate. That’s about it. Good stuff. I wasn’t expecting the GPS. I hadn’t asked for it or anything and it’s a nice model. I can make use of that.
Today a co-worker told me that his wife bought him a GPS as well. He said that his new goal in life is to get lost.
I got the whole F.E.A.R series of games for PC (1st one, Extraction Point, Perseus Mandate), lots of tootsie rolls (I am addicted), and the 2 disc special edition of the Order of the Phoenix.
Does it work well? I didn’t want to buy one until I found out.
This is my second one. The first was a very small very light model ($20US) that included a functional tail rotor. It took a while but I was finally learned how to control axial spin by trimming the tail rotor via the controller. The little bugger would elevate to 50 or 60 feet (at least) and operate out about 100 or so feet before losing the control signal. Big con is short internal battery life on the chopper (about 5 minutes). Plus is about a 5 minute full recharge.
The one I got for Christmas is a twin tail rotor machine, much larger than my first ($60US). Haven’t even had it out of the box yet, but from seeing my granddaughter play with hers, it seems to be easier to control.
And the writer above is correct, you WILL crash this puppies, heheheheheh. Tons o’ fun. Thank God for free trade with Red China.
Does it work well? I didn’t want to buy one until I found out.
This is my second one. The first was a very small very light model ($20US) that included a functional tail rotor. It took a while but I was finally learned how to control axial spin by trimming the tail rotor via the controller. The little bugger would elevate to 50 or 60 feet (at least) and operate out about 100 or so feet before losing the control signal. Big con is short internal battery life on the chopper (about 5 minutes). Plus is about a 5 minute full recharge.
The one I got for Christmas is a twin tail rotor machine, much larger than my first ($60US). Haven’t even had it out of the box yet, but from seeing my granddaughter play with hers, it seems to be easier to control.
And the writer above is correct, you WILL crash this puppies, heheheheheh. Tons o’ fun. Thank God for free trade with Red China.
Yeah, I know about the crashing. I used to build RC planes…
A saw a commercial for some of those tiny helli’s, they seemed to be selling 2 that could fight against each other.
Some kind of infra red guns which if you hit the other guy sends him into a spin. Looks like fun.
So if I got one for both my sons and my son-in-law, they could all get together and battle each other over the skies of Omaha?
Sounds good to me! Next year, three heli-go-copters coming up!
I don’t know that just any of them can battle each other (course they can crash into each other fine) but the specific ones I saw on the TV commercial could.
It only showed 1 on 1 battle though, but hey, if you had 3 it could be “winner keeps playing”
I got some nice gifts, including eight Kathy Reichs books (the writer who’s books the Bones series is based on). My really primo gifts weren’t really Christmas gifts though. When my father-in-law died nine years ago he left his guns to my nephew. We went down to Houston for the family get-together, and I came home with the guns. My sister-in-law didn’t want my nephew to have the guns, wouldn’t allow them in the house, and never had told him about them. They’d been locked away all this time at my mother-in-laws house, and she wanted them gone. Soooo, not really for Christmas, I got them. I got a Browning Light Twelve auto-loader shotgun and a Winchester Model 100, .284 cal. :)
Disappointingly, I got no guns. Again. But I did get lots of requested vouchers, a great NZ travel atlas, food, wine, gourmet food basket, and a biography.
I’m also at the stage where I get more pleasure from giving. I’m not giving any of that back though!
And I didn’t get a voucher to have my bike sent to Biafra where I could ride it around to determine that Biafrans are more friendly than Americans. Just kidding. I already know that. Heck, they’ll give their teen virgin daughters away for a bucket, which is why I, like The Honorable Chevez, strongly endorse the concept of bartering. Just think what I could get for my shiny bike down there - 72 virgins, at least. Even my bike is Muslim!
Actually what I got both literally and figuratively is a big headache for Xmas. The season to be jolly looks its gonna wind up costing me some $3000+, what with presents, rental cars, plane tickets, dining out, lost work hours, etc. Driving around for 10 hours at a time did the rest to my neck, back and eyes (well, don’t travel sitting on your wallet, duh).
Sadly my wife’s aunt over in TN is dying of cancer, was finally taken off meds on Xmas eve and moved to the hospice area “for 7 to 10 days, tops”. We’ve just been sitting around waiting for the inevitable. I took to reading the neat tome I got called “The Dangerous Book for Boys” (which tells you how to make shivs, shanks, zip guns, etc.) languishing online, obviously, but also got to horse around with all the kiddies. I oft prefer them to adult company because they don’t talk about the ozone.
And here we go - I got a text message from the wife, looks like her aunt might not last the day.
