The Glade 4.0

Mom: baseline Kindle model, pre-loaded with all of her favorite series
GF: Espresso machine by request
Roommates: 1080p Sports camera / Some workout equip / Tequilaaaaaaaa
Cousin: Some notre dame schwag I haven't gotten yet

The rest TBD still!

Earrings for the ladies in my life. Its my go to gift when nothing else inspires and I'm not feeling particularly inspired this year.

For the guys, no idea, my gift list is mostly family and a few friends, when I go out I'll figure it out.

For the one kid I need to buy for, 5-6 year old by, I'm clueless and taking suggestions.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

Mom is getting her SL550 for Christmas.

Everyone else is getting "The fact that I got Mom the **** SL550 she won't shut up about ..."

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In no particular order: Spirited Away DVD, Where the Sidewalk Ends, bathroom scale, Visa gift card, Muppet Christmas Carol DVD, Oliver and Company DVD, unknown, handcrafted pirate plushie, Skyrim, Hercules DVD, Skyrim.

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Not able to top arranging interviews for my parents & grandparents for StoryCorps last year.

My mother is getting some real sheepskin slippers that she wants from some store apparently. I got my father a fishing pole for his birthday, so I'm going to finish rounding it out with everything else he needs to start fishing next year. And I got my brother Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary Edition.

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Los Angeles Kings 2014 Stanley Cup Champions

"I love this **** team right here."
-Jonathan Quick

I got my mom a Mac Mini/Monitor/Trackpad/Keyboard, and preloaded it with all of our family pictures and a good selection of music.

I'm getting my wife a good entry level DSLR, but that may be closer to a New Years gift, as I'm still trying to decide on the model. Probably also a vacation somewhere, although that's more of an Anniversary present. I'm "lucky" in that her Birthday, our Anniversary and Christmas are all in a 3 month window here.

Got my cousins some pottery, and I haven't decided on my grandparents yet.

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Darksiege: You are not a god damned vulcan homie.

Furniture stuffs for the Phe, we took her dad and stepmom out to a nice restaurant while they were here over Thanksgiving for their gifts, her mother and stepfather are getting a big framed Thomas Kinkade painting (gag), my parents are getting...well, Dad's getting his requested gift certificate to Books-a-Million and I haven't decided on Mom's yet.

Mom got a lcd monitor to replace her crt. Dad gets nothing cause he gets mad if he gets more stuff at 91. Dunno about others.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

I want to see the pirate plushie, Moo! Be sure to snap a quick shot to G+ or whatnot.

My brother's getting re-gifted the Time Machine vintage car ad print I got him last year. Except, this time, it's signed by Christopher Lloyd, the inventor of time travel. And in theory, this year I'll manage to get it framed in time, too.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

My son is using our free round trip Southwest Rewards ticket to come home for a few days (he arrives in San Jose just after 4PM today! Yay!).

My stepson, his wife, and the two boys are getting cash to spend or don't spend, as they wish.

Everyone else is getting snail mail Christmas cards.

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"Said I never had much use for one, never said I didn't know how to use one!"~ Matthew Quigley

"nothing like a little meow in bed at night" ~ Bruskey

"I gotta float my stick same as you" Hondo Lane

"Fill your hand you son of a *****!"

I'll post a pic of where the plushie stands now. It's mostly done; it at least looks like a human. I need to do an eyepatch and belt, and the sword.

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No particular order - Sonic Generations for PS3, BlazBlue Continuum Shift for PS3, crockpot cookbook, Professor Layton movie dvd, Authorized Ender Companion, Starship Troopers (book), Bastion (PC game), WoWTCG starter deck, Robostir, Akemi Homura mug, Sketchbook and inking pens, (gift for someone on this board so it must remain censored)

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Daughter is getting a new iPod, a new phone (non-smartphone), a bunch of clothes and shoes.

Wife is getting diamond earrings, box seat tickets to the Patriots/Bills game new years day, and a house-keeper.

Everyone else is getting homemade tomato sauce, BBQ sauce, and Jack Daniels glaze which I am canning and labeling.

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

I have no friggin clue.

My family was spread out all over the place this year with everyone doing their own little thing in their own little corners of the world, and we haven't really kept in touch as well as we usually do. So... have no idea where to start on getting them gifts this year. It might be a year for gift cards at this point.

Bleh.

Oldest daughter: new iPod since she flushed the old one in the toilet

Middle daughter: her first 2-wheeler!

Youngest daughter: various baby toys

Wife: Meat thermometer (she asked for one, or at least expressed dismay that she doesn't own one) and something else, dunno what yet.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

We decided this year to draw names and then the other money we "would" have spent on each other we are donating to our church, who is organizing a trip to South America to build schools and houses.

So, I drew my cousins name, and purchased her a Blu Ray that she will love


I will be donating $500 to my church.

(my niece got itunes gift card and nephew got a flying remote control shark)

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Dream as if you'll live forever...
...Live as if you'll die tomorrow

Vivere Senza Rimpianti

Sister: Stuff from her Amazon list (CDs, a board game) and a crock pot (more to pay off my part of...)
Dad: Vintage candy box from when he was a kid (shared gift with my sister)
Girlfriend: A T-shirt and a massage package gift certificate
A friend who moved away: Oglaf.com book
A friend who may move away: Hello Kitty Schwag

All told, it's a very inexpensive holiday for me this year.

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Once, I was a ranger
Then, I was a warlock
And a mage
And a paladin
Now, I seek to be myself

I'm getting my nephew a stick.

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

Legos

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"If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me." - Alice R. Longworth

"Good? Bad? I'm the guy with the gun." - Ash Williams

Good idea Kairtaine. His dad always loved them.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

These are also great for men in their 30s, especially those living in south Texas!

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

For my wife.

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In time, this too shall pass.

have to see what I can do on this, some of the new lego kits are amazing.
Though I did hear lego's patent is expiring.

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History of the Condom
In 1272, the Muslim Arabs invented the condom, using a goat's lower intestine.
In 1873, the British somewhat refined the idea, by taking the intestine out of the goat first.

Taskiss- that's gorgeous! Where did you find it?

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Darksiege: You are not a god damned vulcan homie.