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Mom got us some luggage we didn't need. We are going on a trip later in May and she wasn't sure if we had luggage. Nice thought, thank you mom.

The bullsmurf thing is that it was bought at Target with cash. We wanted cash back, but NO we're stuck with the gift card. Damn it! Target has nothing I want/need right now.

Let's see... I've made my democratic views against the current war pretty clear to my parents, but they got me a calendar full of armed forces pictures.  Some are decent; a father coming home from abroad and hugging his daughter for instance.  However, most are big expensive war machines and the like.  Thanks, mom.

Then I got a used metal detector.  Thanks, dad.

Oh, and let's not forget the laser level.  No idea why I got that. 

ok, so I took everything back that needed to go back. I got some holiday toys for next year's stocking stuffers, a leap frog leap pad for the little one in a few months and some half-off decorations for the house for next year. All in all, I still have about $100.00 in gift cards to Media Play and Wal-Mart combined. Not too shabby, but again, I wish they'd been more thoughtful.

I guess it's better than the poor kid whose father I saw in the Quick-E Mart on Christmas Eve, though. Not like the holiday snuck up on him....it happens once a year on the same day every year. *sigh* There I go being judgmental, again. Gotta stop that one of these days.

Okay, I kinda fibbed.  Dad told me I didn't have to take the metal detector, so I didn't.  In its stead, he handed me a $200 check.  That, I think, is a pretty decent haul.  When I got off work this afternoon, I bought myself a new CD binder, a spindle of DVD-Rs, and a nifty little package of Halo 2 action figures.  I've got 2 Master Chiefs, one red and one blue, both perched over my desk watching me type this.  Heh. 

I'm still waiting to do Xmas with my fianc

I got an Xbox that was DOA, and Gamestop hasn't responded to our eMail yet. 

I'm alive. 

Spent 6 days at my mom's place on the west coast of florida with my wife and daughter.  Got a Nintendo DS with Super Mario 64 DS and Spiderman 2 from the wife, this T-shirt from my sister, and a few other knick-knacky things from others.  Gave my wife an iPod Photo.  Grandma watched my daughter and my wife and I went to Busch Gardens in Tampa alone on Sunday, it was a little chilly but there was no wait at all on all of the coasters. 

The greatest gift of all was learning that my stepfather's brother and a few other relatives survived the tsunami.  They were at a resort in Phuket, Indonesia during the wave, but made it out safely and my step-uncle managed to save an elderly man during the disaster.

Cool, Altivec.  You're the first person I know that's got a personal tsunami story.

My family doesn't exchange gifts amongst the adults to avoid the very problem mentioned above.   The kids usually make out pretty good though.