This year was kinda odd, as it was the first one we've spent without my sister. Besides that, half the family came down with the stomach bug. That said, we've still had the chance to enjoy some family time and I am very grateful for the hoard of stuff I got this year.
- Digital Camera - I found out about it a few days before Christmas and got to open it first so I could take pictures of the kids opening their presents...
- Art book - Has a lot of interesting experiments in there, hopefully I'll get some done over break because I doubt I'll have time for it next semester.
- $50 Gift Card
- Clothes
- Memory Card for my Phone - Since I haven't had a Digital Camera until just now, I've been using my phone for all my pictures for over a year with no means to transfer them to a computer. Now my phone is full and I can move them to the memory card, one by one.
- Donkey Kong Country - An early Christmas present from D00D64, which works right into...
- Donkey Kong Country Returns - Number 2 on my wish list for games
- Kirby's Epic Yarn - Number 1 on my wish list for games, I've wanted this since I played one of the earlier levels with a friend at the mall
- Minecraft - An early Christmas present from JTE, this is something I've been after for a long time and never quite got around to getting
- Okamiden - An early/late Christmas present from Prime, during a promotion which gave you a chibiterasu plush with the preorder for a limited time
- Money - Enough to fill a few pressing, practical needs at least... I might also spend it on a few movies unless I can talk myself out of it
It is also a tradition of mine to spend a little money on myself for Christmas, and this year I did this early to take advantage of various sales and promotions. These games include
Muramasa,
Super Scribblenauts, and the second
Humble Indie Bundle.
EDIT: Urm, I forgot. The family got a Kinect 360 with Netflix, 14 months subscription to Xbox Live, and a few games (the only one relevant to my interests being
Sonic Free Riders).
The Kinect was seen as an upgrade to my Wii system (which I take with my to college for the greater part of the year anyway), and otherwise its something quite fit to my brother's tastes considering he's quite the FPS fan.
As for the Netflix, that's something I'm much more interested in, although I expected a much better selection and I'm extremely irritated at the lack of subtitles. We miss half the movie/show that way in our noisy home. All the same we've been using it to watch
Psych and while our bandwidth takes a heavy beating, it appears to be worth it for now.
I also want to rewatch
Princess and the Frog at some point and my sister wants to watch
Anastasia, something I haven't seen in ages. Its also a possible way for my mom to finally get to see the uncut final Tennant special on Doctor Who without using the computer.