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Dec. 25th, 2005 11:58 pmI must preface this with: I love my family, I really enjoy being with them for the holidays a lot, and I'm aware that Christmas is not about presents but about being with the people you love. I totally get that.
But scrolling through my flist, people listing what they've gotten, makes me sort of realize what an economic nosedive my family's taken, heh. I suppose it's that whole paying for college thing.
There's also apparently this thing that happens when you turn 18, where you suddenly have so few presents that you can no longer be in the "rotation" with the cousins and sibling but instead wait quietly, taking pictures, until they happen to dig up one of yours. It's just such a weird, sudden shift.
That said, I got a DIGITAL CAMERA - which is excellent, but needs both a set of rechargeable batteries and a big memory card (I used up both in half a day). Finally I'll be able to take pictures at college!
Also of note are SERENITY and Dark Angel S1. Both from my aunt, who is seriously the best present giver, um, ever. She's just... fantastic! Always knows exactly what everyone wants. Even the camera didn't make me beam like Serenity did. And Dark Angel, while I've heard of it, is nearly a mystery to me, but I've heard it's got Jensen Ackles, and it looks very intriguing - I'm excited!
Also, sort of a Xmas present to me from me, Boondock Saints *should* be arriving in the mail tomorrow from Netflix. I've been going craaaazy not being able to watch it!
Oh, and seriously one of the best presents, Sara (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
zeispunim) wrote me a absolutely gorgeous Firefly ficlet. It's River centric, but with a brilliant touch of Simon/River right at the end which makes me endlessly squeeful! Any Firefly fan should go read it, seriously! I LOVE YOU SARA!! *huggles madly*
And HAPPY HOLIDAYS to everyone on my flist!
But scrolling through my flist, people listing what they've gotten, makes me sort of realize what an economic nosedive my family's taken, heh. I suppose it's that whole paying for college thing.
There's also apparently this thing that happens when you turn 18, where you suddenly have so few presents that you can no longer be in the "rotation" with the cousins and sibling but instead wait quietly, taking pictures, until they happen to dig up one of yours. It's just such a weird, sudden shift.
That said, I got a DIGITAL CAMERA - which is excellent, but needs both a set of rechargeable batteries and a big memory card (I used up both in half a day). Finally I'll be able to take pictures at college!
Also of note are SERENITY and Dark Angel S1. Both from my aunt, who is seriously the best present giver, um, ever. She's just... fantastic! Always knows exactly what everyone wants. Even the camera didn't make me beam like Serenity did. And Dark Angel, while I've heard of it, is nearly a mystery to me, but I've heard it's got Jensen Ackles, and it looks very intriguing - I'm excited!
Also, sort of a Xmas present to me from me, Boondock Saints *should* be arriving in the mail tomorrow from Netflix. I've been going craaaazy not being able to watch it!
Oh, and seriously one of the best presents, Sara (
zeispunim) wrote me a absolutely gorgeous Firefly ficlet. It's River centric, but with a brilliant touch of Simon/River right at the end which makes me endlessly squeeful! Any Firefly fan should go read it, seriously! I LOVE YOU SARA!! *huggles madly*And HAPPY HOLIDAYS to everyone on my flist!
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