My wife got me an autographed Greg Maddux baseball. It’s signed acknowledging his 18 gold gloves. The attorney I work under at work is a big memorabilia collector and says she accidentally stumbled into something cool because Maddux doesn’t usually do specialty signings. It’s the best gift I’ve received in probably 30 years
We actually used to have a channel and we did that for years lol market is so over saturated though we never got any views. Most people watch Team APS who I don’t mind but everyone glazes Simply Unlucky and I fucking hate that faggot lol
Brother - Analogue 3D (clone N64 console), Analogue 3D controller, Logitech headset
Girlfriend - Mario Party 4 (Gamecube), laptop fan, computer input hub, Green Day 20th Anniversary American Idiot Deluxe Vinyl Boxset
Friend #1 - Akira Kurosawa 4-movie Criterion Collection DVD set, The Samurai Trilogy 3-movie Criteron Collection bluray set
Friend #2 - Helskate and Lollipop Chainsaw on Steam
Friend #3 - Dragon Ball Sparking Zero on Steam
Grandma - digital picture frame
Mom - a nice cooking thermometer and an ornament
Dad - three Duluth Trading Company shirts
Friend's white elephant gift - some packs of mochi, a My Hero Academia brick figure, and the first volume of the Dog Nigga manga
My cats - catnip cat toys that look like sushis
My parent's dog - a squid dog toy
Got from people
Friend #1 - Evil Dead/Halloween two-pack game for Switch, and Sonic X Shadow Generations for Switch
Friend's white elephant gift - a Mario ornament, a Darth Maul ornament, two Mario Kart McDonalds figures, a One Piece gacha figure, a Naruto gacha figure
Mom and dad - bookshelves, a stud finder, some money
Girlfriend - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mirage Era 1993-1995 hardcover comic collection, two nice button up shirts, a nice long sleeve shirt, egg nog cookies, some candy, socks, and a winter coat
Brother - Akira hardcover manga boxset
Friend #2 - Lies Of P on Steam, and Pentiment on Steam
Friend #3 - a Kizer pocket knife, and Age Of Mythology remaster on Steam
Work - a nice bonus, a Reeses Cup, a box of hot chocolate, and a cookies-in-cream chocolate bar
Got quite literally nothing this year but it ended up one of the most fulfilling Christmases ever anyways. It was the Christmas of side quests lmao.
Started Monday and it was basically a Friendsmas thing, ended up being over there til Christmas Eve, then my boy and his girl were going to her family’s party and it was the first time he ever met them so he asked if I could go wit to take the pressure off so he wasn’t the only outsider. Which realistically it was weirder for me cause he’s at least the boyfriend, whereas I was completely random and also the only white boy in a super Hispanic Christmas party lmfao. But it went well and they were super welcoming and kept feeding me tequila lmao.
So we go back to the original spot afterwards and get fucked up heading into actual Christmas, and in the morning, one of the girls in the group, who has been developing a clear spark wit me, asked me for a ride to her Dad’s Christmas party. Well that turned into “When you get there how bout you meet my Dad and come in for mimosas.” which then turned into me staying for the entire fucking thing and not leaving til the afternoon lmao.
She said she was glad I came cause while she doesn’t have a “bad” relationship wit them, it’s not the best and it would have been awkward without me there. Asked why me and not somebody else and she said cause I carry myself well and I’m the only one outta the group she could 100% trust to act right in front of them lmao. But also think lowkey it’s cause she sees potential in me as something serious and used it as a way to sneak meeting the family in to see how they feel about me. Cause she introduced me as her friend, but I could tell it was interpreted as the boyfriend cause of comments, like at one point she was pouring us drinks and it was only like 10:30 AM and her Dad was like “Good luck wit her.” lmao.
So yea, was 2 days of completely random unplanned Christmas parties where I was a complete stranger at both, but I somehow had a fucking blast and this Christmas will always stick out because of how different it was. This Christmas was a complete Hail Mary wit my Mom being gone now and this had the potential to go completely left and being stuck at home depressed, but I’m so satisfied in the way that it actually turned out.
Oh you know what I guess I technically did get a present this year lmao. She got 2 necklaces as part of her gifts and she had put one on my neck while we were there so we could match. I thought it was literally only for that purpose so when I was leaving I went to take it off and give it back to her and she was like “Naw keep it.” I had told her it’s a blatant girl’s necklace (It’s a heart wit the thin women’s chain.) so I would realistically never really wear it, and she was like “Well wear it when you see me or something then but you’re fucking keeping it.”
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Brother - Analogue 3D (clone N64 console), Analogue 3D controller, Logitech headset
Girlfriend - Mario Party 4 (Gamecube), laptop fan, computer input hub, Green Day 20th Anniversary American Idiot Deluxe Vinyl Boxset
Friend #1 - Akira Kurosawa 4-movie Criterion Collection DVD set, The Samurai Trilogy 3-movie Criteron Collection bluray set
Friend #2 - Helskate and Lollipop Chainsaw on Steam
Friend #3 - Dragon Ball Sparking Zero on Steam
Grandma - digital picture frame
Mom - a nice cooking thermometer and an ornament
Dad - three Duluth Trading Company shirts
Friend's white elephant gift - some packs of mochi, a My Hero Academia brick figure, and the first volume of the Dog Nigga manga
My cats - catnip cat toys that look like sushis
edit: all I want is a couple catches
-Ozzy era Sabbath classic box set
-Piece Of Mind Iron Maiden Bust (look awesome next to my Book Of Souls one)
-Yu-Gi-Oh! 25th Anniversary Tin
-Yu-Gi-Oh! Retro pack box set
-multi tool knife
-Digimon Tamogatchi
-Digimon crests set
good haul this year. Metal, Yu-Gi-Oh and Digimon essentially scratches everything off the list lol
Friend #1 - Evil Dead/Halloween two-pack game for Switch, and Sonic X Shadow Generations for Switch
Friend's white elephant gift - a Mario ornament, a Darth Maul ornament, two Mario Kart McDonalds figures, a One Piece gacha figure, a Naruto gacha figure
Mom and dad - bookshelves, a stud finder, some money
Girlfriend - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mirage Era 1993-1995 hardcover comic collection, two nice button up shirts, a nice long sleeve shirt, egg nog cookies, some candy, socks, and a winter coat
Brother - Akira hardcover manga boxset
Friend #2 - Lies Of P on Steam, and Pentiment on Steam
Friend #3 - a Kizer pocket knife, and Age Of Mythology remaster on Steam
Work - a nice bonus, a Reeses Cup, a box of hot chocolate, and a cookies-in-cream chocolate bar
Grandma, Aunts and uncles, grandpa - cash
Mom gave me some cash and some novelty underwear
Dad gave me a drone
My Wife found the artist that did my Joker tattoo 22 years ago to do touch ups on it
Started Monday and it was basically a Friendsmas thing, ended up being over there til Christmas Eve, then my boy and his girl were going to her family’s party and it was the first time he ever met them so he asked if I could go wit to take the pressure off so he wasn’t the only outsider. Which realistically it was weirder for me cause he’s at least the boyfriend, whereas I was completely random and also the only white boy in a super Hispanic Christmas party lmfao. But it went well and they were super welcoming and kept feeding me tequila lmao.
So we go back to the original spot afterwards and get fucked up heading into actual Christmas, and in the morning, one of the girls in the group, who has been developing a clear spark wit me, asked me for a ride to her Dad’s Christmas party. Well that turned into “When you get there how bout you meet my Dad and come in for mimosas.” which then turned into me staying for the entire fucking thing and not leaving til the afternoon lmao.
She said she was glad I came cause while she doesn’t have a “bad” relationship wit them, it’s not the best and it would have been awkward without me there. Asked why me and not somebody else and she said cause I carry myself well and I’m the only one outta the group she could 100% trust to act right in front of them lmao. But also think lowkey it’s cause she sees potential in me as something serious and used it as a way to sneak meeting the family in to see how they feel about me. Cause she introduced me as her friend, but I could tell it was interpreted as the boyfriend cause of comments, like at one point she was pouring us drinks and it was only like 10:30 AM and her Dad was like “Good luck wit her.” lmao.
So yea, was 2 days of completely random unplanned Christmas parties where I was a complete stranger at both, but I somehow had a fucking blast and this Christmas will always stick out because of how different it was. This Christmas was a complete Hail Mary wit my Mom being gone now and this had the potential to go completely left and being stuck at home depressed, but I’m so satisfied in the way that it actually turned out.
So I got a women’s heart necklace. 😂