Topic: Christmas 2008

Well it's drawing near to December and I'm going to start this off.  This will be a general Christmas thread.  Wishlists, and other stuff.  And songs or anything. 

To kick it off I will post this video.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V33tgez-Hug

If you know of August Burns Red, yes they are a metalcore band (a good one I think), but if you don't like metalcore/ screamo, I can assure you there is no screaming.  I love Carol of the Bells in the first place.  This is just Carol of the Bells but metalfied.  I now have a new take on Christmas songs.  Double basses are a must. 

So yah general Christmas thread, have fun!

I love Carol of the Bells, it's one my most favorite songs ever. But I don't really like that one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0IwpRzWL_4 This one's so much better. ;) Without a doubt one of my favorite version of the song. I have, I think 73 versions of the song on my computer.

In other Christmas stuff, we have the tree up and some lights and decorations. We might be putting up the outside lights today. I have window stickies up. And we have a few wrapped presents under the tree.

And Christmas music is in almost all the stores now, which isn't as annoying as I'd thought. Though work hasn't got it yet. They probably will when I go back tomorrow. Which isn't so bad now that we're mixing it with regular music. A few years ago when we weren't I went insane.

Christmas is better than Thanksgiving. A holiday for food is not a time to work in a grocery store. Christmas, however, is easy in comparison.

I cannot be bothered with Christmas this year. I will like it when it arrives but it is the present aspect that I cannot get enthusiastic about. I do not want to buy anything for anyone and I do not want anything in return.

I have got some books and I am going to make some decorations with the younglings soon. I will get the decorations out in the next few days.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AucDFSB1NCY

Sweet.

That is fantastic Draco :D

I have got my festive avatar on now :D I think I will have to sort through the decorations soon. Though I have to start making Christmas presents soon. In fact I will have to start tonight as I will have to post some of them. If I get them done now I can send them by slow and inexpensive post (after spending a lot on my step daughter I have to make the rest of our Christmas as inexpensive as possible)

went chistmas shopping yesterday, got some stuff for the girlfriend and my sister.

I survived working Black Friday. This year Christmas will be a quiet affair at home with my father and possibly uncle.

Not even November and you guys ALREADY had the tree up and the lights out? For crying out, loud, thats too EARLY. And what for what, to throw it out December 26th and have all the presents put away as well? Time off is for you to enjoy it the most, not get it all thrown up as quick as humanly possible! =/

Winter break starts in two more weeks for me. Just....two.....more.....

And the only thing standing between me and home sweet home is an army of final examinations and essay due dates. Damn.

I haven't really thought about christmas, sadly enough. Maybe it's because they keep us busy, but that's only part of it. Frankly I'm starting to think I've become a little disenchanted with it. I'd have to say the part I'm most looking forward to is the reunion of The Herd, the amazing and stunningly attractive band of heroes that are my friends. College scattered our little fellowship literally across the country, from California, to Florida, to frigid Vermont, and I haven't seen some of them since we parted ways this past summer. This reuniting will be nothing short of legendary.

Something I've noticed over the past few years, as far as presents and wish-lists are concerned: I don't really know what I want anymore. I'm not sure if this is a common trend as people graduate from begging for video games and expensive name-brand clothes, or if I became self-actualized or something overnight, but I've come up clueless every year when my mom says "All your aunts and uncles are asking me, what do you want for christmas?"

I just want to mail them a plain white envelope with an enclosed "IDK N00BZ0R!!!"

But really, it's kind of sad. I asked for a Mossberg now that I've thankfully reached the golden age of legal firearm ownership, but both of my parents are in the medical profession, and pretty much despise guns and anything to do with them. I tell anyone that asks that I'm the adopted child of Lara Croft and Sam Fisher.

But I mean really, what horrible luck. My philosophy major friend gets a shotgun thrown at him by his uncle as a gift for no real reason, and the Criminal Justice major at a military college gets the anti-gun family. 53R10U5LY, 17'5  R3411Y  64Y. 50 64Y I'V3 R350R73D 2 1337 5P34K.

Umm ya.....Merry Christmas!

((I would like to blame any randomness/1337-speak on the daunting prospect of aforementioned exams starting TOMORROW. Feliz Navidad.))

Whats everyones favorite TV special? I rather like the newcomer Shrek the Halls. Charlie Brown Christmas is an old family favorite also. I don't exactly have a favorite, I guess. But I don't like a lot of the RakinBass ones (Go figure when you make a crapload of specials, not all of them are gonna be great). Some are good (Rudoplh, Frosty), some aren't bad, but not super great either, just there (Santa Claus is Comin to Town), and some are just plain "What where they THINGKING?!" (Rudoplh and Frostys Christmas in July come to mind, as well as Shining New Year and Little Drummer Boy [both yes there are two]). Grandma got Run Over by a Reindeer is always the wrost special in the history of ever though, hands down.

A Muppet Christmas Carol, it's a great adaptation and very entertaining. Rudolph, The Year Without A Santa Claus...

I have to do some shopping this weekend. Shoud be simple.

I like Charlie Brown, Grinch, Rodolph, and South Park's Woodland Critter Christmas the best. I have Shrek the Halls but haven't seen it yet, keep meaning to do that.

And who could forget the Holiday Special? ;)

The new Stephen Colbert Christmas Special.

Willie Nelson? How did you get into my Nativity set? :)

Jeff Dunham's Holiday Special was hilarious.

August burns Red is AWESOME!!! I love that song. I love this season, its so much fun

I prefer the Star Wars Holiday Special, personally.

((If anyone can read that without laughing at that acid trip....then you have to watch it.))

i saw the special and i'd have to say that the best was the cartoon with boba

I had never been able to track down a copy for years, then a physics teacher/robotics advisor/ friend of mine informed me that he owned one. After a robotics team get together one night, he agreed to put it in, but only on the condition that he could  leave the room. The rest of us came rather close to gouging out our eyes with alan wrenches.

that's about how i felt minus the alan wrenches

http://www.starwars.com/video/view/000594.html#rss Course there's always that Fett Holiday Special. lol

The Holiday Special is awful. Everyone must see it at least once, but never any more, it's almost even worse the second time round, cause you know what's going to happen. It's like watching a train wreck in slow motion. You know what's going to happen and that somehow makes it that much worse.

by Odin that was amazing

Oh my that was terribly clever.

Jango never realized how detrimental that that external activation switch would become.....

In the music video for "White & Nerdy," Weird Al buys a copy of the SWHS off the street.

No way I'm ever watching the Holiday Special! Reading about it is bad enough. The closest I'll ever come is with the cartoon, which by no means is some great thing either. The horrible, cheap animation style makes me want to cry as well. I can forgive Fett for not being accuratly coloured since he was still in the developing stage at the time. But there is NO excuse for everyone else! >_<

lol, i actually like the boba in the holiday special, i considered making my mando armor just like that.

That holiday at the Fetts video is even funnier now that I can pick up th esound for it!

Merry Christmas. It's almost here, just one more night. :)

I just wanted to wish everyone a happy holidays

merry Christmas to all my friends here at this awesome website, and i look forward to another year here with all of you.

well wishes to Mel and her family, and i hope her dad has a speedy recovery

once again Merry Christmas to you all and i look forward to posting news of cool presents soon :P

Merry Christmas, BFFC!

merry christmas to all

and may i introduce to you, Spuda Fett (first gift of christmas 08)

rofl

*cries*

I love all you , merry Christmas you filthy animals.

i never thought i would ever get to own this....

thanks mom =)

I would so hire Boba Fett to get me that hoodie...

he'd have to lift it off some other lowly denizen of the galaxy
Boba Fett aint got nuthin on Lucas McCoy ;)

Only exciting thing so far is money, gift cards, and Traitor. Got "The Last Jihad", great book.

I got Link's Crossbow training, which is a lot of fun! And Wildlife Zoo (which is a sort of SimZoo). A Tailor's Ham, which I've been wanting for a while now. And the Boba mug Target has.

My stash:
Empire hoodie
Empire hoodie, view two
Boba Fett vintage t-shirt
Iron Man
The Dark Knight
Indiana Jones IV
fedora + gloves to go with my leather jacket (the fedora is similar to the Indiana Jones fedora, but more like the Rorschach fedora/trilby/hat thing).
SONY Portable DVD/CD Player
$20
SPORE

I am so EXCITED. I got

Chrono Trigger DS
Mario Kart Wii
2000 Wii points (I'm gonna get River City Ransom and Super Metroid!)
A (sad) book about a cat (not exactly what I asked for...)
A gift card for Boarders (exactly what I asked for. So I can get MOAR MANGA)
A lolCaptain America shirt
A Phoenix Sun's shirt (We're going to their next home game on January 9th!)
A giant can of CASHEWS
And, ladys and gents, the grand finale........

I GOT MY OWN COMPUTER!!!!! ITS SO AWESOME ITS SLEEK AND BLACK AND SHINEY AND IT COMES WITH A MIC AND A WEBCAM AND ITS MINE!!!

LOL nice amounts of loot here. I did well, got a few SW novels in the mix I'd been wanting which was nice.

Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas, now it's on to preparing for the New Year's celebrating... :D

Fett II, find out where that shirt is from....i wants it.

and ceciliacrimsondragonfett, nice call with the chrono trigger game, thats a classic and a favorite of mine.

http://www.80stees.com/products/Ditsressed-Boba-Fett-Star-Wars-T-shirt.asp

tada. and chrono trigger is beast.

I'm happy because I've got X360 now. :)

Yes I have it too. It's very cool! :cool:

CDs and cash, and a new gun. Sweet.

I got some new Pickups for my guitar. Very awesome

A gun? A gun? Eek!!!

That reminds me, I also got a chordbook form my guitar. I can play exactly like Jimi Hendrix can play right now. :P

Ah, nice, what kind you get? (gun)

A 308.

Ha...specifics?