Chocolate, Hot chocolate (cocoa), $30 gift card to board game store, blender (moving out next year), electric shaver, unknown gift from Thinkgeek that hasn't come yet, wooden christmas ornament thing from my aunt, flashlight, coke gummies.
I actually think I made more of an impact to Christmas when I went to my neighbor's and connected their daughter's tablet to the wireless internet, because they didn't know how. It was very nice.
From others: BF4, Rise of the Triad, a spring-powered window punch, a Heliograph AKA signal mirror, 8 street passes, a water bottle, bottle of wine, some chocolates.
To self: Red and Black 3ds, Pokemon Y(because I liked the look of the red and black bird thing more than the white horse thing.)
I got some gift cards, Ticket to Ride Europe (twice in fact), Dominion: Guilds, Castles of Burgundy, a couple shirts, a couple books, and a nice mini statue.
I gave... a lot. A quadcoptor, Descent 2nd edition, the new Zelda 3ds game, whatever PS4 call of duty, bourbon, scotch, bbq rub, shirts, Cards Against Humanity, lots of gift cards, legos, action figures, a Dr. Who scarf, a creeper hat, and... hrm... more gift cards.
I ended up with a Nook Simple Touch, a copy of Anansi Boys (not the ebook), the Joy of Cooking, Lego City, and various other things like bookmarks and gift cards.
I got a little money (which I used to buy dinner for my family on christmas day so my mom wouldn't have to cook), $20 in target gift cards (which I'm going to turn into flood light bulbs for video recording) and a $50 radio shack gift card from my best friend. I turned the Radio Shack gift card into an Arduino Micro, a transistor, a voltage regulator, an SD Card shield, a 7 segment led display, and some leds.
Me: €75 of iTunes vouchers. Koch Haus gift voucher (mmmmmm fooood). Last year I got a quad copter, but I broke it last month. Juliane got it fixed! so it's like the same present two years in a row. A very large Ferrero Rocher. Three Ritter Sport chocolate bars. A new big pan for cooking. A small oven pan for cooking. A Star Wars Lego set, a mini Imperial Star Destroyer (which I bought for myself to go with a mini Millennium Falcon for Juliane).
For background: Christmas tradition is austria is that gifts are given in the late afternoon/early evening of Christmas Eve. For children it's the "Christkind" (lit. "christchild", but more of an angel rather than literally Jesus and with much more secular connotations) who brings the presents and its usually signified by a bell or chime ringing.
So funny story ahead. My family visited my sister on Christmas Eve. After having Christmas dinner we were passing the time talking and doing games with her kids (twins, boy and girl, 5 years old). I'm reading them something when the chime rings as set up outside on the stairs. My sister eggs them on to go look and see what this chime was. And my nephew tells me "keep reading".
Some smart clothes so that when Im teaching I don't look a homeless man, a load of tank girl prints and a Teenage Mutant Ninja Squirtle hoodie. Was pretty good considering that Im not a fan of christmas.
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I actually think I made more of an impact to Christmas when I went to my neighbor's and connected their daughter's tablet to the wireless internet, because they didn't know how. It was very nice.
BF4, Rise of the Triad, a spring-powered window punch, a Heliograph AKA signal mirror, 8 street passes, a water bottle, bottle of wine, some chocolates.
To self:
Red and Black 3ds, Pokemon Y(because I liked the look of the red and black bird thing more than the white horse thing.)
To self; some PA merch and a kindle to replace my broken one, well when the sales kick in.
I gave... a lot. A quadcoptor, Descent 2nd edition, the new Zelda 3ds game, whatever PS4 call of duty, bourbon, scotch, bbq rub, shirts, Cards Against Humanity, lots of gift cards, legos, action figures, a Dr. Who scarf, a creeper hat, and... hrm... more gift cards.
Edit: I wish I had myself for a friend.
In my case the ratio of given/gotten is ENORMOUS, but to be fair I treat myself pretty well the rest of the year so it's OK.
Me:
€75 of iTunes vouchers.
Koch Haus gift voucher (mmmmmm fooood).
Last year I got a quad copter, but I broke it last month. Juliane got it fixed! so it's like the same present two years in a row.
A very large Ferrero Rocher.
Three Ritter Sport chocolate bars.
A new big pan for cooking.
A small oven pan for cooking.
A Star Wars Lego set, a mini Imperial Star Destroyer (which I bought for myself to go with a mini Millennium Falcon for Juliane).
I think that's it.
A Catbug throw blanket
Lowball glasses for drinking whiskey out of
A Night Vale t-shirt
A flight stick so I can play TIE Fighter.
So funny story ahead. My family visited my sister on Christmas Eve. After having Christmas dinner we were passing the time talking and doing games with her kids (twins, boy and girl, 5 years old). I'm reading them something when the chime rings as set up outside on the stairs. My sister eggs them on to go look and see what this chime was. And my nephew tells me "keep reading".
This kitchen torch
A set of 4 holiday-themed water glasses
A sticker from a Monster High sticker book
Too much fucking food
Julekake
Prior to this, I also got my hands on 11 bottles of 30 - 40 year old Polish mead.
Cologne
Puzzle
Small statue thingie
Small plush penguin
Pencils
Heat Shrink Tubing
Cowboy Bebop on boo-ray
Scott, he got it primarily for crusting steak. The hard part of creme brulee is the custard.