The official "What did you get for Christmas?" thread

Well first I would like to say Merry Christmas to everyone here at BP.net. Thank you for all of the knowledge you have all taught me.

Now for the fun part.. So what did everyone get for Christmas?!

I got lots of clothing and some Xbox 360 games :) Including COD4, GH3, and Halo 3.

Oh and the VPI book:)

And a hovabator from Lynn :D

Thanks Lynn!

i got night vision so I can spy on animals in the yard at night :banana:

One thing i received was the book about Steve Irwin and his life :cool: :gj:.I also received a book on all the differant reptiles :gj:.Gee you would think i like reptile people and stuff :D

well, my favorite gift, and the only one i'll disclose, was a pair of pearl earrings my mom gave me to match the set of pearls my grandparents gave me. :D

It's been a wonderful Christmas so far. I'm grabbing an hour to myself to sit and relax and sip a cup of the most yummy Creme Brulee coffee my eldest, Kayte and her partner Nicole, treated me to (they know my love of good coffee *drool*)

All the kids enjoyed their gifts this year I think. We're a very blessed family that everyone's in great health, employed, busy at school and having an all around good year.

Mike and I treated ourselves to a small HDMI LCD wide screen tv so I'm really enjoying that (and the DVR thing....how cool to be able to record things so easily and pause live tv...wow!). We also got a really nice smoker/roaster thing which is currently cooking our Christmas bird and it smells GOOD! A new digital coffeemaker so I can wake up to the smell of my beloved coffee was much appreciated! :D

Lots of other neat stuff....DVD's, little special gifts but the best gift of all is just the smiles and hugs and the love that's always there, but even more so on this one special day of the year.

The very best of the season to all of you. :)

P.S. Anyone want to guess how high a 46 year old woman can jump when trying to avoid being run over/tripped by the two new RC cars Mikey received this year? Apparently it's hilarious to roar a car at me from the evil giggles I'm hearing! For some reason I think older brother Luke and daddy Mike will enjoy racing them down the long center hallway too! Gawd help me trying to get to my kitchen to check the turkey when I now apparently live in a racetrack! LOL

Oh and a certain VERY surprise Christmas gift of the scaley kind will be coming home sometime in the New Year, thanks to Lynn Whipple and Adam Wysocki. More to come on that later. :D

Clothes
Wok - for making stir fry (yum)
new vacuum, since mine sucks, or rather it doesn't. lol
3lb bag of Twizzlers
Night Vision, motion sensitive web cam (for spying on our animals while we sleep)
Gift cards

Well, since we are not that well off - and neither are our families - we didn't really get much of anything...but what we did get we are very grateful for. :)

I got a cute stuffed hedgehog from my mom in Texas (I collect realistic stuffies FYI) and some of her homemade fudge and cookies. A new thermostat from myself, that same Steve Irwin book, and the gift of having that little pastel nab a pinkie last night.

My BF got a book on game design he's been wanting a while, some homemade baklava from my mom, and "Ratatoullie" and "At World's End" DVDs from me :D

It's a White Christmas here in Denver, so we also have the gift of silence outside...ahh.

Let's see... the surprise this year was an Ipod Shuffle. I'd kinda been wanting one and had been debating about buying one. All the gifts were open when my parents pulled out two surprises (one for me and one for my sis). Whoohoo! The Shuffle!

And I received a very nice leather bag for my work laptop and files.

The biggest gift was an exercise bike---helped purchase it and put it together yesterday. Can you guess what the New Years Resolution is going to be??? ;)


BTW... Jo, I really appreciate all that you and Mike have done for me and can't wait to see some pics in January! Mitch, you're a great friend, and I can't wait to see some little noses pipping someday. Thanks so much to the both of you---to all of you!---for what you have added to my life!

We don't have much this year either, in fact no presents under our tree at home, but it's OK I've got my honey.

From my mom I got a new sewing machine, gift cards to Joanna Fabrics, Giant Eagle, and Baker's Square. I got a nice overnight bag and some slippers from my brother and a set of vanilla candles from my sister. We also got two calendars, a cat one for the computer room with our various appointments to put on it and a turtle one for the snake room to put feedings and sheds on it. I also got $50.00 in cash and then my fiance and I both got $25 to spilt from my aunt.

We actually opened them Xmas Eve, though I kinda wish everyone waited til Xmas morning.

I am getting a yet-undecided BP morph sometime in Jan-Feb. I do not mind waiting :) I will most-likely go Mojave, but might get an orange ghost/het o.g.
I got my husband a Rolex watch; got a great deal on it, right place, at right time, type of thing. He can wear it now that he is no longer doing messy jobs (although, tattooing can be pretty messy with certain customers!)

I got the best Christmas Present I could have ever wanted....I got a call from my son in Iraq at 7:30am saying he was doing well....couldn't have asked for a better present.

Merry Christmas all!!!

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Originally Posted by Argentra

Well, since we are not that well off - and neither are our families - we didn't really get much of anything...but what we did get we are very grateful for. :)

I got a cute stuffed hedgehog from my mom in Texas (I collect realistic stuffies FYI) and some of her homemade fudge and cookies. A new thermostat from myself, that same Steve Irwin book, and the gift of having that little pastel nab a pinkie last night.

My BF got a book on game design he's been wanting a while, some homemade baklava from my mom, and "Ratatoullie" and "At World's End" DVDs from me :D

It's a White Christmas here in Denver, so we also have the gift of silence outside...ahh.

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What time is Ratatoullie and LEAVE me some baklava :hungry:.Its what comes from the heart and not the wallet that really counts ;)

This was a great Christmas, we missed family this year, it was the first in many years that my wife and I spent here in Florida.

I got my self a Tom Tom, bought it on Black Friday from Amazon, ridicules deal that I could not pass up....

I got Andrea an hour long massage at a spa down the street and a soap making kit she wanted.

Ethan got a bizzian gifts between his birthday the 15th and Christmas. He is now officially walking 15 to 20 feet at a time before falling. Busted his lip pretty good this morning on the coffee table, blood all over his Santa outfit.

I hope all had a great safe holiday.... Looking forward to 2008 as there are going to be some huge changes for us, that I'll keep you all updated on...... :)

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Originally Posted by Ironhead

I got the best Christmas Present I could have ever wanted....I got a call from my son in Iraq at 7:30am saying he was doing well....couldn't have asked for a better present.

Merry Christmas all!!!

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Now thats great :salute:

A year subscription to the Reptiles magazine and a NOAH (Northern Ohio Association of Herpetologists) membership. Pretty random, no?:D But the NOAH membership is a pretty good gift in my opinion (if you exclude the randomness factor).

Everybody is getting such wonderful stuff! :cool:

I got a set of Bareknuckle Warpig pickups for one of my guitars.

Lets see I got:

Clothes
Money
A hanging photo clip mobile
Jewelry
Ipod =)
Leather purse =)
Candles
Incense
....and a stocking filled with Coal.

Coal for Christmas isn't all that bad ;)


Meet my new little soot ball named Coal:
http://primevalbeauty.com/DSCN0579.JPG

My b/f gave him to me. I've ALWAYS wanted an ebony Chinchilla. ^^

... ... AWWW!!!! Oh now THAT is a Christmas gift! He is the cutest! I swear, someday I will own a chinchilla...

My family is in NC - so I drove up last Wednesday, and we exchanged gifts on Saturday, as I had to drive back Sunday to work on Monday.

It was a modest Christmas for us all. From my parents I got printer ink (color and black), honey with the honeycomb in it, tea, a fire extinguisher (not sure what made them get that), an electronic rubik's cube game, wheel covers, a new tire, and flannel sheets.

My grandmother and my aunt and uncle both gave me some money, my brother is a photographer and had one of his photographs professionally framed for me.

Karl gave me a scarf/glove/hat set, some clothes, a coffee mug and a shelving unit.

I got a great deal on a Garmin for my parents - their faces when they opened it was the best part of Christmas for me!

Karl and I tried going to the movies today around 1, only to find that on Christmas, they were starting after 4, so we stopped at Hollywood video and picked up some videos, stopped at Waffle House for lunch, and we'll heat up the Boston Market dinner I picked up yesterday. It's been a very cold, rainy day today - which we are thankful for the rain, the warm roof over our head and the chance to just be together.

We also went to a beautiful Christmas Eve candlelight and communion service at our local Methodist church last night which we have always wanted to do each Christmas but have never done before.

Oh! And I stopped by Petsmart yesterday to get some aspen and see if they had any dumbo rats, as I've been keeping an eye out for some for Deborah, since she hasn't seen any near her. They didn't have any, but I happened to ask them about when they'd have some, and they said that they had a dumbo female in the back.

I asked why she was in the back, and they said because she bit an employee who was cleaning her enclosure and they couldn't sell a biter. I asked them what they planned to do with her, and they said they couldn't sell her, but could adopt her to someone willing to work with her.

I asked to see her and held her, and while very timid, she didn't attempt to bite me. I told them I'd love to adopt her from them and work with her. We had some handling time last night and she's starting to come to the front of her enclosure to greet me. She squeeks a lot when I hold her, but she's not showed any aggression.

She'll be joining Deborah in a few weeks to become a breeder for her, along with a 1.1 het pair of dumbos from my dumbo rat, Wisdom. So, she's kind of a Christmas present for Deborah! I've named her Jingles! LOL

i got a bb gun and target board zelda phantom hour glass and ugh clothes
:P

I got some dvd's, clothes and candy. Got a remote controlled snake billed as a mamba:) It's pretty cool. Oh, did I mention the trip to NERD tomorrow to pick out a new western hognose?!:) My girlfriend is buying it for me, and she already gave me a new tub and UTH for the little guy. I've been wanting one for a while, so I can't wait:)

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I got some dvd's, clothes and candy. Got a remote controlled snake billed as a mamba:) It's pretty cool. Oh, did I mention the trip to NERD tomorrow to pick out a new western hognose?!:) My girlfriend is buying it for me, and she already gave me a new tub and UTH for the little guy. I've been wanting one for a while, so I can't wait:)

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Oh you're in mass. I'm pretty local of nerd (about 20 minutes) I assume you are goign to Zoo Creatures there adopted home? The new facility is outrageous!

For non-herp related I got:

$100 gift car to Simon malls
a new wallet(I really needed one!)
a bunch of candy I will never eat (My mom has not outgrown the fact that I am 22 and dont need stocking stuffers LOL and probably never will)

And for herp related I went house and spent a butt load. Check my signature for a list of snakes waiting for the cold front to pass through. I also am looking into building a rack set up for the new kids so everyone is warm and snug and I dont have to have a bunch of loose tubs with UTH's stacked on top of each other. My real present this year will be getting my het albinos to lock!

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Oh you're in mass. I'm pretty local of nerd (about 20 minutes) I assume you are goign to Zoo Creatures there adopted home? The new facility is outrageous!

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Yeah, we are going to zoo creatures. It's about an hour drive to get there, but well worth it. The only problem is that I can spend entirely too much time in there. If I only lived 20 min away from them I would be in big trouble:)

:snake:

I'm posting this using my new iPod touch! Also a male Lucy Leopard Gecko... "El Blanco"! Thanks again bro.

I got Kelly a kitchen aid stand mixer and she gave me cash towards upgrading my critters, and thanks to her new stand mixer I recieved an extra 5 lbs. to carry around!!:O

It was kind of a miserable christmas for me because I had to work at 8:30am, but overslept by an hour and a half and got an earful. I went home around 12 for a break and found my boyfriend waiting on the couch angry - he thought I was going with him to his parents' house but my work schedule didn't allow it. So we fought and cried and he left when I went back to work. I'm just now getting home. :(

My Christmas was basically last night which, thankfully, WAS enjoyable. I went to my cousin's house where all the family gathered for some finger foods and gift exchange. I got a new pair of pants and some money. Afterwards I went back to my dad's house and gave everyone their gifts from me - since I had to work today. I've spent the last few months making two scrapbooks for my dad. One is all of my baby stuff, and the other is my brother and sisters' who are twins. He loved it so much he cried. -lol- :rolleyes:

Anyway, a very modest christmas - mostly just clothes for me. The best gift from my dad isn't here yet. He ordered me the VPI book online!! I can hardly wait. ^_^

I'm am typing this from my new ipod touch. It s so cool. I also got a round trip ticket to my grandmas house. Some cash. Clothes. I had a great Christmas.

It is awesome to hear/see what everyone has gotten!

Merry Christmas everyone! Hope a great year for everyone is to come!

Hope everyone had a good Christmas. I got a new Herpstat, a video mp3 player, a juicer and plane tickets to Vegas for a combined Christmas-Birthday gift from my girlfriend.

My son got me a present. Belgian Chocolate truffles. 15 pounds of them.
That's about it.

I was a bad girl this year...I only got a bunch of switches.

:oops:

Now what am I sposed to do with switches?!?!?

:devilish:

wait...I know! Where's Jas?!?!

:twisted:

buahahaha

i got an ring from my hubby, a gorgeous marble buddha head and a chinese turtle dragon. best gifts he's ever given me...

***of course that is NOT because i bought them, wrapped them and put them under the tree only to see his surprise when i opened them and he discovered what he got me*** :rofl:

Oh lets see.. I got a 22" wide screen LCD monitor for my computer.

A floor mounted 300psi air compressor
Loads of movies
I cook so I got some of my Caphlon cook ware
I got more stuff than I deserve this year.

I got money money a cupple of gift cards and more money

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***of course that is NOT because i bought them, wrapped them and put them under the tree only to see his surprise when i opened them and he discovered what he got me*** :rofl:

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nooope! No way, right? :P

I feel like I should explain the Rolex watch. Mark wanted one, and was thinking of buying a replica off of a website. Then he went to his friend's store; this friend sells (sold) stuff wholesale on Ebay. Turns out, said friend is selling his shop and becoming a forensics photographer (do you really think I could make this stuff up?) Mark goes in to look at computers and leaves with a free Rolex! Sure, it just might be a knockoff, but it is a good one if that.. The watch came from an estate in California that he had bought out. But his friend wants tattoos from Mark anyway, so the watch is more of a pre-payment, I guess.
So.. Mark's gift cost me $0.00. :rolleyes: See, I had planned on getting him a more realistic watch, like a Bulova, but he was whining about wanting a Rolex. I know that this post is getting long, but I will explain. People see Mark, a tattoo artist, as a tough-guy persona and sometimes take him for a starving-artist type. Like, we went to a jewelers recently (to look for watches!) And no one would even help us. Then this hoity-toity couple walks in and the sales people fawned over them like little worshippers. Same thing when we looked at computers at Circuit City. I don't even get it, because I dress reasonably well (10-year-old leather jacket that looks new because I care for it.. and I am usually even wearing office-type clothing from my office job..)
It was moreso when Mark owned his construction business (which he still dabbles in.) We would walk into a store and Mark would look like Joe Everyman in his paint-spattered boots, caulk-stained shirt and ripped jeans. But he is a worker through and through, and anyway..
So he wanted this watch to "stick it" to people who see him as a metalhead punk. And he got it :)

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Originally Posted by Freakie_frog

A floor mounted 300psi air compressor
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I hope that yours is not like ours! It has a slow leak somewhere in the hose, and at odd times, it will go on and refill itself. This has nearly given me heart attacks on some occasions.. yikes!

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Originally Posted by jeffnme

I was a bad girl this year...I only got a bunch of switches.

:oops:

Now what am I sposed to do with switches?!?!?

:devilish:

wait...I know! Where's Jas?!?!

:twisted:

buahahaha

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Yep, I can turn you on Like a switch!:P

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Originally Posted by Ginevive

People see Mark, a tattoo artist, as a tough-guy persona and sometimes take him for a starving-artist type. Like, we went to a jewelers recently (to look for watches!) And no one would even help us. Then this hoity-toity couple walks in and the sales people fawned over them like little worshippers. Same thing when we looked at computers at Circuit City. I don't even get it, because I dress reasonably well (10-year-old leather jacket that looks new because I care for it.. and I am usually even wearing office-type clothing from my office job..)
It was moreso when Mark owned his construction business (which he still dabbles in.) We would walk into a store and Mark would look like Joe Everyman in his paint-spattered boots, caulk-stained shirt and ripped jeans. But he is a worker through and through, and anyway..
So he wanted this watch to "stick it" to people who see him as a metalhead punk. And he got it :)

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I remember shopping in my work clothes at a sears and roebuck , welding in a dirty shop for 10 hrs. . I was pulling about 900.00 a week after taxes, not too bad. I wanted to see a binder for collectable stamps, about one hundred. the clerk told me he wasn't wanting to show it to me since I probaby couldn't AFFORD it.
What does a clerk at a sears make??:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

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I remember shopping in my work clothes at a sears and roebuck , welding in a dirty shop for 10 hrs. . I was pulling about 900.00 a week after taxes, not too bad. I wanted to see a binder for collectable stamps, about one hundred. the clerk told me he wasn't wanting to show it to me since I probaby couldn't AFFORD it.
What does a clerk at a sears make??:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

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I know; it is ridiculous. At the time that we were computer shopping, Mark owned the business and was bringing in about what you just described in a week. Now he is an independent tattoo artist. It is actually hard for even me, to determine his monthly income. Some days are $50 days, some can be $1k days!
Life is different nowadays. They can't pigeonhole us into low class and high class. Then again, the biggest thing I have learned about the world: Class in itself is not buyable. Someone either has it, or they are obnoxious.. many, both rich and poor, fit that bill!

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Clothes
Wok - for making stir fry (yum)
new vacuum, since mine sucks, or rather it doesn't. lol
3lb bag of Twizzlers
Night Vision, motion sensitive web cam (for spying on our animals while we sleep)
Gift cards

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how much is it for that night vision camera?

I got a lot of clothes, dishes for my apartment, perfume from my hunny (Lamb by Gwen Stefani...it smells soooo good), and a freezer for my rats!! (from my parents...hehe they thought it was so weird, but I said it is what I really needed). Glad everyone had a good Christmas!

I got little things, I got Flash Focus for my DS, HIM cd, and going to Hamburg was kind of a present, I got my Beauty snake there... Also, I'm getting a Lavender Motley Corn from SerpenCo, so that's kind of a present since my mom is giving me $30 from her PayPal for me to buy it... I didn't like Christmas this year.. just didn't feel it as much.

I really didn't feel into the spirit, either. It was the weather I think; it is all green/brown grass, rain, and wind here. I am not complaining; you don't have to snowplow rain. But we did have nice family gatherings, which is what matters most I guess.

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Originally Posted by JASBALLS

Yep, I can turn you on Like a switch!:P

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maybe so .. :D ...but I wasn't talking about that kinda switch.

I am gonna spank you with these switches!

:twisted: ;) :P

i got clothes,money, a $30 gift card to gamestop,cologne, and guitar hero 3 for my PS2!!

what sucked about christmas this year is that about 2-3 hours before midnight, i got sick with stuffy nose!!