Someone asked me “did I get a best/significant/special” gift this year.  I did!
Actually, three come to mind, but two are mistakes.
- Dominion, the board game. I put my “Amazon wish list” up and let people buy things off of it. Immediately both a friend and my parents bought me the board game Dominion, and got no message about the fact that t he item had already been purchased. I found out the next day since (providentially) I knew about it. We had to return one. It was very frustrating. (But still a great game!)
- Girl Genius volume #??? – I ordered Volume 6 a million years ago (read: May), and it didn’t come. In the meantime I thought I ordered it, and ended up with Volume 5 twice. Argh. Finally the local comic book store said it was in, do I still want it. Yes! I did. But it took me awhile to go get it. A friend sent me Volume #7! But I couldn’t read it without #6 so I finally went to go pick it up and it was gone… he said “You will probably see it in 7 days, because someone else picked it up, hint, hint.” (It was 7 days to Christmas). So finally on Christmas I opened the graphic-novel-shaped package from my folks – and it was accidentally another copy of VOLUME 5. So now I have ordered myself a copy of Volume 6 (edition 2 reprint, since 1 is sold out, hence the problems) via the actual Studio Foglio store.
- The special gift:Â
My senior pastor, of all people, saw USB “fairy light” Christmas lights and bought them for me for Christmas. It makes me almost teary because it’s so touching to have a pastor know you that well, to be able to pick out something special (and even geeky) that is exactly up my alley. In retrospect that was by far the most special, unexpectedly neat gift. To be understood and accepted as a geek by the pastor.
Shiny! - The most special gift of all.Â
Well, of course the gift freely given and most perfectly suited to my needs – the needs of all mankind – is Jesus Christ, whose birth we celebrate at Christmas (whether that is the actual birth date or not). If you don’t know Him as your personal Savior, you are neglecting to open the best gift you could possibly receive! Even I have a hard time remembering who this season is really all about. I’m sorry to have to admit that.
How about you? How was your Christmas?
I bought a little USB Christmas tree for work. It’ll probably stay up until April. XD
My parents and my daughter both wowed me this year. Mom and Dad did nearly all their shopping for me at Hobby Lobby, which netted me polymer clay to play with, a book full of claying ideas, a *lovely* spinning tool organizer that I’d never have spent that much money on (and I know my mother. she used a 40% off coupon for it), and a gift card. My parents know me well, and it is awesome.
The daughter was so very cute. She got me a little toy VW Beetle that matches the real VW Beetle I got earlier in the month. And she was a little worried that I’d be upset, because they didn’t have the right color toy for me. (my car is silver, and the toy is black)