Fun Stuff > CHATTER

Christmas! Gifts! Parties! Etc!

<< < (38/40) > >>

tania:
christmas, which i usually spend in markham with my parents, is also the one time of year my sister and her husband visit canada. i don't really do the christmas thing and either does my family, but said sister has an incredible job with a ridiculous salary and her and her husband are both extremely well off, so every time something in their house gets replaced with a new thing or they somehow end up with something they don't need and can't return, they put it aside and give it to me the next time they are in canada cos they know i will use almost anything. usually it is just small things, but this year i somehow ended up with -
- an almost brand new pair of very warm winter boots
- a digital camera
- a gorgeous watch
- a big pile of books
- a big pile of tea
- a bunch of lovely scarves
now i am in a weird place because even though i love it all, and to them it was somehow crap they didn't want and couldn't get rid of, i am stuck feeling guilty no matter what on account i did not do christmas to them cos there was an unwritten family agreement and then they went and kind of did christmas to me while i wasn't looking. it is too late for me to do christmas to them because christmas is already over and it will be obvious i am only doing it to reciprocate. doing christmas to someone when you say you won't isn't allowed, damnit. those were the rules. this holiday is dumb.

Gilead:
I like the idea of christmas as a thing you can do to someone, like maybe I'll be walking home from the shops and bam! Man leaps out and does Christmas to me.

Caleb:

--- Quote from: jhocking on 27 Dec 2008, 09:42 ---
--- Quote from: clockworkjames on 26 Dec 2008, 01:57 ---my dad and stepmum gave me a leatherman with my name on it

--- End quote ---
her: *reads book on feng-sui* It's bad luck to give someone a knife as a gift? Man, who gives a knife as a gift?

--- End quote ---

All you have to do is give a coin to the person giving you a knife for a gift.

Lines:
Christmas was good! Christmas day we went and saw Doubt (which, really, was kind of a hilarious thing to see on Christmas just because it's so serious), had dinner at home, and then watched more movies. I got:
- Movies: The Dark Crystal (yay, as the VHS died ages ago) and a box set of early Alfred Hitchcock movies
- Socks - I actually want socks all the time
- Sweaters, which I really needed and really like
- Waffle maker. Waffles are the Best Thing.

greenMonkey:
I had a pretty epic haul this year:

-bathrobe and matching pajamas
-books: Basic Writings of Existentialism, Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke, a biography of a famous actor whose name I can't remember off the top of my head.
-DVDs: West Side Story, a documentary about the Buena Vista Social Club
-shirts, and a sweater
-a horrendously hipster-ish scarf
-a blanket (it's actually a dog blanket, my aunt works in a pet store)
-food: delicious Chili mix (which has already been eaten), wasabi coated dried peas, more chocolate than I know what to do with
-tea
-Cycling sunglasses
-Money to buy parts for my vintage road bike to fixed-gear conversion.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page

[*] Previous page