What did you get for Christmas?

Come on, let us know what you got for Christmas! Was it what you wanted, needed or despised (but put on a good face when opening the package)?

My folks bought me a new refridgerator! Mine was shot and I was shopping for one when they came by to visit on the way home from a doctor's office visit (they do that a lot these days, doctor office visits that is). My dad said "so, you need a ice box eh boy (I'm 51)", and then mom broke out the check book and asked how much it cost. I said that it cost a lot, and then dad said that they couldn't write a check for "a lot" and to give them a number, and that they'd rather give me a gift that I really needed (and that would save them a trip to the mall). That was mighty nice of them, totally unexpected and unneeded (I had the money in the slush fund). It was delivered and installed the next day. A nice Christmas present indeed.

So, what loot did y'all end up with?

 

Hey Bobby, its niiiice present and useful for the hunting season.

I got an T-Shirt!

 

I got a day off, and a indoor counter top griller, I can smell the steaks now!

 

Bad boy, belasar! You have to invite us for the first time indoor BBQ!)

 

A few of Steven Speilberger's German Armor Books (I've almost completed my set now), a book on German daggers, Cornelius Ryan's "The Last Battle" and an A-2 Flight Jacket.

 

Not bad Alan! You must´ve been a good boy this year

 

This year I made out like a bandit, well sort of. I have told my sons and others that contrary to what people have said they "hate" for Christmas, I actually enjoy. Like new socks, new pocket-Ts, and such. These are things I use, and if I don’t have to buy them for myself, that is a real gift.

Consequently I received a couple of really nice Riggs Pocket Ts from my little sister, and a dozen great cushion sole Hanes crew socks from the youngest son. My oldest son sent me his usual, a new version of Norton Anti-Virus for 2011. My younger brother sent me some cash, so I bought myself a new Cuisinart toaster, not a toaster oven but a wide slot unit with an easy clean crumb tray. My old Toastmaster was on its last legs, and barely could add color let alone warmth to a slice of homemade bread if it was cut thick. And I love thick cut bread!

My Step-mother send me a card with a check from Dad, his writing skills come and go with the Alzheimer’s these days, but she filled me in on what’s happening at their end. I used part of his gift to buy myself a new Terabite external hard-drive for storing stuff, it isn’t really a "tera" since the actual storage is only 961 gigs, but coupled with the 750 gig external I already have I can really keep things safe, and my internal not cluttered up.

So I’m pleased all things considered.

 

a lump of coal ............. until I scared the bad boy Knecht Rupprecht and returned the favour right in the back of his head as he ran down the street.

received a lovely bottle of 2005 Bassermann/Jordan Kabinett Deidesheimer Paradiesgarten from my lovely bride in the area where some of my loved ones dwell......
and healthy grandkids which ripped the place in no time flat on the 24th.

 

A new office. Incorporation. And I'm thinking an ulcer.

 

An Ipad, two US Army Commemorative knives (one for my purse), several gift cards and a beautiful carbine that holds 9mm rounds (great for home protection) as seen here....



On a more milder note, I also got a terrible pinched nerve in my left shoulder that's been giving me the fits. I'm sitting at home right now with two ice packs on me..*grumbles*

 

Fresh air...

 

Oh, so you got an veeeeery healthy gift for Christmas, hahahaha!!!

 

Gift card to a women's wear store, gift card for a book store, first season of Merlin, The Pacific, a Sugarland CD, a Josh Grobin CD, a Walkman speaker dock for my MP3 player (special order). The hubby got an LP converter so we'll be able to convert our hundred of albums from the old days which will be great, also a converter of negatives so we can archive our old photos from our non-digital days - including ones my folks took in Europe and some negatives I have of their wartime wedding that have never been printed before. As always we do well. We are very fortunate.

 

M*A*S*H Season 3&4 from my Favorite Uncle and Aunt!!! lol.

A bunch of tools and a tool bag

Fushigi Ball

Gyroscope

Body Spray (Says something about you, don't you think? Getting body spray for Christmas... Smells reeeeeally good tho lol)

mini basketball hoop things where you hang them on doors and stuff.

touch screen Mp3 player. I've been playing the Mine Sweeper game on the Applications all morning now...

and a big plastic bin full of pizza flavored prezels

 

Has LP fired her new gun? Maybe that might have something to do with the sore neck? Try shooting with the other arm. To balance it out.

 

Radar, sorry for being naughty, but was the body spray for you or was it a sort of self defence from others?

 

Thats What I was thinking...lol

 

Laptop cooling pad

Various Old Spice products

Books:
US Marines in WWII: Tarawa and the Marshalls
Spitfire: Life of the Legend
B-17 Combat Missions
Submarine Warfare in the Civil War
Sultana: Surviving the Civil War, prison, and the greatest maritime disaster in U.S. History
Stalin's Silver: The sinking of the John Barry
Under Pressure: The final voyage of submarine S-5
The Civil War Experience (One of those hardcover books with the removable facsimile documents)
Surviving the Sword: Prisoners of the Japanese in the Far East 1942-45
American Heritage History of WWI

Movies:
Cobra
Pale Rider
Crusade in the Pacific
Chisum
The War Wagon
Absolute Power
Back to the Future Trilogy
Spawn: The Series
Tank
Batman ('89 version)
The Pacific
Sudden Impact
Magnum Force

And a WWII Royal Canadian Corps of Signals cap badge, and shoulder patch.

 

'Sudden Impact' is awesome.