'Tis better to give than to receive...

[aberrantangels]

...but 'tis more fun to receive.

And here's what I received:

Books: The Great Book of Amber by Roger Zelazny; Suppressed Transmission: The Second Broadcast by princeofcairo
Clothes: three sweaters
Computer Stuff: greeting card paper suitable for printers
DVDs: Star Wars: Clone Wars Volume II
Games: GURPS Castle Falkenstein and GURPS Castle Falkenstein: The Ottoman Empire; Monopoly (Star Wars edition)
Graphic Novels: Tom Strong volume 2 (by Moore, Sprouse et al); The Books of Magic (by Gaiman, Bolton, Hampton, Vess and Johnson)
Stocking Stuffers: Bag of [licorice] Coal; Ghirardelli peppermint bark; a set of slipper socks; and the 88-puzzle book Do You Sudoku?

No City of Heroes or Episode III, but they may be waiting at home (we're Christmasing with my brother, it being an odd-numbered year), so I'm not worried. Even if they aren't, you can't have everything, and I'm running out've places to put the things I do have. ^_^

Comments

[thessalian.livejournal.com]

I don't know. I think the giving's more fun sometimes. Like when you see the look on dodgyhoodoo's face when he opens his DVD box sets. Not-very-smiley men smiling like the top 3/4 of their head's going to fall off is always fun.

[aberrantangels]

Mm. Point taken. And the looks on the nephews' faces when they saw some've the things I gave them, and/or that were given to them in my name, look a lot like you describe dodgyhoodoo, and leave me feeling the same sort of smile on my face. (They're not managing to keep those smiles up all the time, though; they seem to've caught a stomach bug from their peer group, which makes them pukey and in consequence cranky.)