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Merry Christmas everyone.

Hope everyone is having a fantastic Christmas or whatever you celebrate this time of the year.

I got

• Clothing
• Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition
• Simpsons Book
• Money
• Pokemon: I Choose You (Blu Ray)
  Spoiler

  OMG Pikachu talked.
• PS4 charger
• Big Bang Theory Season 10 (Blu Ray)

Merry christmas as well.

As for gifts:

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I already typed nothing!

Happy Christmas, Neons!

We're just finishing up Christmas traditions at the Mrs. Kong household and we're getting something like 30cm of snow just in time for me to drive out to my parents' place for dinner...

We're having the main Kong Christmas tomorrow so I won't know about gifts until then.

Merry Christmas to all the Neons!!

It was a Vegas Golden Knights (all sorts of clothing) and Stranger Things (Nancy + Jonathan POP!’s; sweater/shirt) themed Christmas for me. I also received 100: A Century of NHL Memories hardcover book, to cap off with a Looney Tunes shirt.

That just about wraps things up around here, barring any Boxing Day shopping.

From me:

8bitdo SNES controller for Switch, Android, PC
Google Home Mini (was free, but it counts)
Alden Nowlan's Collected Poems
Noam Chomsky's Necessary Illusions (Massey Lectures)
Patrick deWitt's Ablutions
N. K. Jemison's The Fifth Season (Boxing Day buy)
Hopefully NieR: Automata for $9.99 from Best Buy - NieR was not in stock, so I used my $20 credit on
Super Mario Odyssey instead

From Mrs. Kong and her family:

A most excellent sweater
$25 Google Play credit
$100 in various gift cards
Game of Thrones season 7 on BRD
Lots of chocolate

From my family:

Probably new sheets (opening this tomorrow)
A rope toy for Berlin
$20 gift cards
Nice vintage edition Scrabble game
More chocolate

Let's see. With divorced parents, I do the multiple Christmases thing. So the breakdown is...

From me
Kindle
The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood
The Disaster Artist by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell
Earthworm Jim 2 (Genesis)


From Mom's family
Georgia Tech polo
Georgia Tech t-shirt
Gold/white (GT colors) striped rugby shirt
Rain coat liner accompanying coat gifted previous year
Portable battery with 2x USB out
Green quarter-zip sweater
Spanish language Los Bravos de Atlanta t-shirt
Beatles coffee table book
"The Law" essay by Bastiat
Time publication of the year's best discoveries/innovations

From Dad's family
$50 cash
$200 AmEx GC
2x $25 PSN GC
Plane ticket to Salt Lake City to ski with my dad in March
Georgia Tech fleece jacket
Space heater for my room at home because my dad keeps the thermostat way too low
$50 Cheesecake Factory GC
2x 9V battery (my dad is convinced that my smoke detectors' batteries will die while I'm a tenant of my current apt and that, further, I will be too lazy to replace them)
Various chocolates

Not a bad haul! I wasn't really expecting much, as this is my first full calendar year of employment and financial independence, which is when I sort of imagined I'd stop getting major gifts. Hopefully the gift-giving I did was deemed appropriately reciprocal!

That plane ticket will be sweet Clay!

I've pretty much gone through all my Christmas stuff now. I'll be going to my grandma's tomorrow who lives about 4 hours away, it'll be a good Switch road trip.

Notable gifts
Xenoblade Chronicles 2
$20 Nintendo eshop card
Google home mini
Super Mario ornaments (Mario Luigi peach and yoshi)
Memory foam pillow
Nice dress shirt
Nursing sweater from my university
Gift cards for the keg, and the movies
New blanket for my bed.

When you add it all up, it ends up being quite a lot of stuff! It was a great Christmas with family.

So many gifts for baby Anika, but I didnt get left out.

From Hanukah with Mrs Ks dad:
New Flashlight

Christmas From Mrs K:
Harry Potter Encyclopedia
Amazon Echo
New Chopsticks

Parents:
New warm jacket
Super Mario Cereal
Some clothes for work
Framed picture of my great grandpa with JFK

Dads extended family:
Zelda shirt from Nintendo World in NYC
8bitdo SFC pro controller
Disney Attraction poster calendar
Scotland national team jersey from sister and bf
Edinborogh Hard Rock drumsticks
Beer

Moms extended:
Ice chipper for the driveway
$40 Nintenso eshop gift cards

Wifes moms family:
Polo
Amazon Exho Dot

I ended up getting Persona 5 with money from my aunt

NieR was not in stock at Best Buy, so I used my $20 credit towards Super Mario Odyssey instead.

I also picked up a copy of N. K. Jemisin's The Fifth Season at a Boxing Day sale.