The Glade 4.0

So what is your favorite or coolest gift thus far this year?

My wife got me that Kindle. Had not really checked it out before, but it looks really cool and will be good for my job. Gotta wait till Monday when I finally have a day off to play it.

My wife is a Ravens fan and I am a Steelers fan. Pretty interesting times there. Her cousin is one of the Ravens cheerleader coaches. For Xmas her cousin gave me the 2010 Ravens cheerleaders swimsuit calander. Signed personally to me from the cheerleaders and then each individually signed their photos in it. That tops my coolest of the year.

I got a new Michigan hat, not sure it is my favorite gift...it is just my only one...hehe.

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Raell Kromwell

I have the iPhone kindle app, I looove it! Whenever I have free time at work or waiting I can read my book! Plus it's so nice in bed, you can read ( no light needed) when you get sleepy I just put it on my night stand..no turning off the light and waking myself up! Some limitations on books..not all are kindle, but I have found enough to keep me busy! You will love it Dominex!

Go Blue Raell!

Let's see..my fav was a bunch of lotions from bath and body and a pair of UGG boots! Now my perpetually cold feet will smell good and be warm

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

Vivere Senza Rimpianti

I got a new pair of running shoes, which were desperately needed. I got my last pair when I came home from Iraq and that's over 18 months ago now; they were getting rather ratty. Since I need to be able to sprint 300 meters in under 52 second (really more like 45 seconds for a decent score) and run a mile and a half in under 11:45 for the job I'm trying to get, they were sorely needed. Running is bad enough as it is.

Edit:

Also got a gift certificate to the Great Lakes Brewing Company restraunt, IHOP, and a cook book for charcoal grilling... all of which I love but all rather counterproductive to what I mentioned above!

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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."

Clothes, cologne, ITunes gift card, Barnes&Noble gift card, and patio furniture (got the furniture last month, keep forgetting it was for Xmas).

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Women are from Hoboken, men are from Trenton. ~ Jimmy Kimmel

Wasn't really much I needed. Got some thermal socks and some gift certificates for the liquor store. My sister bottle me a bottle of Grey Goose which was a nice surprise. I did check a cheque from parents for $300 which I decided to use part of to buy myself a new CPU for the desktop. Went with a AMD Phenom II X4 940 Black Edition which I'm quite excited about. The rig should last me quite some time now!

I got an Audubon calandar, an Audubon bird guide, and 10 lottery scratchers, but the best gift, the one that made me cry happy tears was what was tucked inside the scratchers...my 2010 California State Fishing License!!

(oh, and I won $23 from the scratchers!! )

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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 was given a new 12mp camera and a sweet wall decal for my room.

Got the Drizabone Bush hat that was recommended by some folks here (thanks!); a monocular; a flashlight-screwdriver combo tool; plus clothes and socks, the usual. Nothing terribly exciting, but it was a nice day with the family.

Oh, and ... a Spongebob Chia. My wife knows me so well.

(Are you a birdwatcher, Jasmy? Doing the CBC today?!)

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This cold and dark tormented hell
Is all I`ll ever know
So when you get to heaven
May the devil be the judge

I got a surround sound that doesn't work in the rear speakers, and I got a notebook cooling pad (a nice one, supposedly) which also doesn't work, right out of the box. Those were supposed to be my two best presents. So besides that, I guess my best presents would be clothes or my new suitcase. *sigh*

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Complete DVD collection of Monty Python's Flying Circus
A wok
$20 to Gamestop (Gonna buy Dynasty Warriors Gundam 2 with it)
$50 Shaws card (local grocery store)
$50 Visa gift card
some random sweets

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Chips Ahoy cookies
The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks
Dragon Age: Origins
Web Database Applications with PHP and MySql
Dragonaut vol 1
The Tower of Druaga Season 1
$100 cash
Nagisa stuffed toy

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$220 cash
New Super Mario Bros
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
Garmin GPS

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Ron Paul 2012

Time with my daughter.

Everything else fades into the background.

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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

I did not recieve any gifts this year beyond the money my father direct-deposited into my account (which will help pay the rent). My mother says she's got a tub of Marshmallow Fluff to send me when she gets around to it.

Additional fire power,
Something I've wanted for a long time but just never got around to buying.
Ruger 10/22 along with other things.
My daughter got a savage MKII

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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.

God of War Collection for the PS3 from Phe
Eye exam and contact lens from my parents
Plane tickets for a week out to Austin from Phe's dad and stepmom
And a $500 Christmas bonus from work, $100 from Phe's mother, and $50 from her grandmother, which went into my new iPod Touch.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl ($1.99 on Steam )

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Go back to zero, take a pill, and get well ~ Lemmy Kilmister

Rubik's Touch Cube - Coolest gift
Fallout 3 GOTY edition (Xbox)
Settlers of Catan - Traders and Barbarians expansion
Zombie Survival book
"Why We Suck" by Denis Leary
TomTom GPS
Flyers tix - Game in January against the F***ing Penguins
Money
Random gift cards for various restaurants in the area.
Cologne
Sweatshirt
Button down shirt
T-shirt
Pasta serving set - Serving bowl + 4 dinner bowls
Dead Rising (Xbox)

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This must be Thursday. I could never get the hang of Thursdays.

Aethien:

I'm a fledgling birdwatcher. I've always enjoyed watching and listening to the birds in my back yard and I love trying to identify the different birds I see while out fishing. During the warmer months, I will sit on the patio with my morning coffee, just listening to the birds sing and watching their antics! I even leave pomegranates on my tree during the winter for the scrub jays and mockingbirds to feed on. So, yeah, I guess I am a birdwatcher!

(I have no idea what the CBC is )

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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 *****!"

nothing so far.

Cordless Black & Decker auto-cutting scissors ($5 gift my daughter picked out, but is pretty neat once fully charged)
Blue Ray: Star Trek (the new one),
Blue Ray: Up (re-gifted to me as I am only one with Blue Ray)
Blue Ray: Firefly complete series
2010 Sudoku desk calendar
$50 cash that I will probably spend on AC2 for the PS3 (or towards Dragon Age Digital for PC from Farsky)

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Gorse

Best gift ever!!!

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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 *****!"

My boss gave me a 28 volt Dewalt drill and $250. Bonus for the year. Girls gave me a few usefull things, I do have a nose for unreturned rebound gifts though. I hates xmas

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"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one." Charles Mackay

You are the dark knight

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"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one." Charles Mackay