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What did you get for Christmas?
December 28, 2021 at 6:45 pm
I got some gift cards and used them to order a table to make quilt-making easier.
Spent an hour on the phone with middle child - that's a rare thing - and she sounded like she wasn't high for a change. Her rapid fire speech when she's on a binge is unnerving.
Also got a bit pissed off...but that's another story.
What goodies did you get this year?
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RE: What did you get for Christmas?
December 28, 2021 at 6:47 pm
Pissed off is better than pissed on. Unless, urine to that.
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RE: What did you get for Christmas?
December 28, 2021 at 6:53 pm
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Present is ordered but hasn't landed yet - my daughter is getting me a print of "Reptiles," my favourite work by M.C. Escher.
Other than that, assorted cheap bling from the office (we had an Advent-calendar-style giveaway with various people contributing things like candy and dollar store stuff every day). I now have entirely too much hand sanitizer, and not nearly enough chocolate.
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RE: What did you get for Christmas?
December 28, 2021 at 7:14 pm
Took the wife to lunch on Sunday. After that she wanted to wander around the mall. Fortunately, the first store we hit was a Hallmark, which was having a 50% off sale on ornaments. I got a Snoopy with three of those little birds, wearing campaign hats. I wore a campaign hat when I volunteered for the BSA. She got a thing with Chip and Dale and a treadle style sewing machine. Now she has eight sewing machines. At least this one is tiny.
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RE: What did you get for Christmas?
December 28, 2021 at 7:44 pm
A Moxon vise kit and ginormous maps of Middle Earth and Belariand.
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RE: What did you get for Christmas?
December 28, 2021 at 8:07 pm
My family hasn't opened gifts yet, and may not for 1-2 weeks. But I bought myself plenty of presents, including a new air fryer that will hold a full-size pizza, a TV for the kitchen so that I can watch sports while cooking, a sous vide cooker, two new watches, an enameled cast-iron Dutch oven, and an enameled cast-iron skillet, and a bunch of videogames. I still need to upgrade my video card, but that will have to wait as prices and availability are terrible this year.
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RE: What did you get for Christmas?
December 28, 2021 at 8:23 pm
New PC. (my posts have that new computer smell) Rick and Morty jigsaw puzzle. Pickle Rick tree ornament. Sweat shirt and pants. DVD player. Science doesn't care what you believe T-shirt. Food.
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RE: What did you get for Christmas?
December 29, 2021 at 1:36 am
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My better half got me much-needed new pants, a matching shirt, nice socks, new shoes, and because I'm a big kid a collectible figurine.
Yes, I make full pew pew noises if the figure has a gun accessory.
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