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   And catching up at last...

Here we go with the Christmas List:
a music stand from my parents.
A green christmas teddy bear from my little brother.
A dressing gown (blue) from my not-so-little brother.
1 plaster faerie and 1 crystal ball with a flower in it from my sister who is a hippie at heart.
3 care bears colouring books from santa.
miscellaneous chocolates, also from santa.
1 astronomy-themed calendar from my grandma.
20 dollars from my nana --> "While I Live" by John Marsden.
1 movie ticket voucher and 10 dollars from my uncle steve on my mum's side --> Hopefully I'll be seeing Peter Pan on Tuesday, and the money got me "The Elder Gods" by David and Leigh Eddings
1 spatula, slotted spoon, potato masher and salt and pepper shakers from my aunty carmel, also on my mum's side. She also gave me a set of 4 potato peelers.

Then the really cool stuff that deserves gushing:
"The Winter Door" by Isobelle Carmody, sequel to "Billy Thunder and the Night Gate". I've only read 5 chapters, but it rocks. From my parents.
2 SailormoonS lolly tins from my boyfriend. See photos: here and here.
2 SailormoonS DVDs from my parents! These would be the first two in this series, and I can't wait to watch them. I did play a few episodes with the dub track for my cousins during the big family christmas party, but that doesn't count. (I've also got disc 5, so I'm halfway through collecting the series.)
A shiny blue necklace from James' parents, which is gorgeous and I think I owe them hugs or something when I see them next.
"It's a very merry muppet christmas movie" DVD from my bestest friend and her boyfriend. It's a good movie, and very funny. Some bits made me laugh until I hurt.
6 shiny metallic pens, also from my Heidi. They're so nice. And they work wonderfully in the new diary she gave me, full of black paper. Apparently now I have to write her stories. I guess I'll have to work on that.
A firewire card for my computer, with three shiny ports and general sweetness. This was from my boyfriend in preparation for my last gift.

And, in case you weren't paying attention, go look again at the icon at the top. If you still can't figure out what James got me, you are an uncultured swine... *giggles*

(it's a big present, intended for christmas + birthday + valantines day + anniversaries + next christmas + every other excuse he can think of to give me a present until such time as I am no longer in awe of my wonderful toy.)

Of course, you might not realise, given that my artistic abilities aren't really that great and I was too stuffed to be that good at pixel art. In that case, I got a 10 Gb iPod, which is currently holding my 1.7Gb of music with no real difficulties. I'm planning on going through everyone else's collections to fill it up eventually, but for now, I'm rocking out to the Kill Bill vol. 1 soundtrack.

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