Merry Christmas 2014

[Commenter 42]

And a happy Festivus to the rest of us!

[Leo656]

Think there was a glitch because I posted about my Christmas earlier but then I had to restart, and when I did the post was gone. Anyways.

Christmas Eve we went to her aunt's for Shrimp cocktail and pasta and Guinness. My wife and I opened gifts at midnight (I unwrapped her last ), then in the morning we exchanged gifts with her parents and had ham and homemade potato salad. Then she and I got our traditional Chinese Food Feast, and ate, drank, and watched DVDs until I finally passed out playing video games sometime around 11pm.

I was blessed enough to receive...

Spoiler:

Batman: Assault on Arkham
Best of Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures (animated series)
The History of Beavis and Butt-Head
This Is Spinal-Tap
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Super-Friends! Season One Volume Two (think I finally have all of them now!)
The Godzilla Collection (contains "Gojira", "Godzilla: King of the Monsters", "Godzilla Raids Again", "Mothra Vs. Godzilla", "Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster", "Invasion of Astro-Monster", "All Monsters Attack", and "Terror of MechaGodzilla"!)
Turtle Power documentary (Finally!)
Metal Gear Rising: ReVengeance for 360
Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb for Xbox
Castlevania: Curse of Darkness for PS2
Knockout Kings 2003 and Viewtiful Joe 2 for Gamecube

Also got a big surprise when I opened the Atari Flashback 5! Also, the wife gave me a little plush Rainbow Dash.

It was a great holiday and I hope everyone else had a great one as well.

[Refractive Reflections]

Just thought I'd post this little bit of interesting history from 100 Years ago during World War I:


Excerpt from Wikipedia, and created from a War that was supposed to end all Wars:

The Christmas truce (German: Weihnachtsfrieden; French: Trêve de Noël) was a series of widespread but unofficial ceasefires along the Western Front around Christmas 1914. In the week leading up to the holiday, German and British soldiers crossed trenches to exchange seasonal greetings and talk. In areas, men from both sides ventured into no man's land on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day to mingle and exchange food and souvenirs. There were joint burial ceremonies and prisoner swaps, while several meetings ended in carol-singing. Men played games of football with one another, giving one of the most enduring images of the truce. However, the peaceful behaviour was not ubiquitous; fighting continued in some sectors, while in others the sides settled on little more than arrangements to recover bodies. The following year, a few units arranged ceasefires, but the truces were not nearly as widespread as in 1914; this was, in part, due to strongly worded orders from the high commands of both sides prohibiting fraternisation. Soldiers were no longer amenable to truce by 1916. The war had become increasingly bitter after devastating human losses suffered during the battles of the Somme and Verdun, and the incorporation of poison gas.

The truces were not unique to the Christmas period, and reflected a growing mood of "live and let live", where infantry in close proximity would stop overtly aggressive behaviour, and often engage in small-scale fraternisation, engaging in conversation or bartering for cigarettes. In some sectors, there would be occasional ceasefires to allow soldiers to go between the lines and recover wounded or dead comrades, while in others, there would be a tacit agreement not to shoot while men rested, exercised, or worked in full view of the enemy. The Christmas truces were particularly significant due to the number of men involved and the level of their participation – even in very peaceful sectors, dozens of men openly congregating in daylight was remarkable – and are often seen as a symbolic moment of peace and humanity amidst one of the most violent events of human history.

...A little reminder of hope amongst the most gloomy of environments.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

[IndigoErth]

Originally Posted by Leo656

Then she and I got our traditional Chinese Food Feast

We do this too! Although we go out to a Chinese buffet. Done it for a number of years, now that the grandparents are gone. Got a really good fortune in my cookie, too, which we for fun apply to the coming here.


Hope everyone had a turtley great one.

[Leo656]

We don't decide until the day of whether we want to hit the buffet or get take-out. We decided that since we had a ton of things we watched to watch, we would just stay in, even though it was twice as expensive.

I almost forgot to mention that she got me two awesome TMNT shirts, a green one with most of the cartoon cast, and a gray Mirage one. You seen the ones I'm talking about. Pretty spiffy surprise.

[DarkFell]

Shout out to our fellow Canadian Dromies..Happy Boxing Day too.

[BubblyShell22]

Originally Posted by Leo656

We don't decide until the day of whether we want to hit the buffet or get take-out. We decided that since we had a ton of things we watched to watch, we would just stay in, even though it was twice as expensive.

I almost forgot to mention that she got me two awesome TMNT shirts, a green one with most of the cartoon cast, and a gray Mirage one. You seen the ones I'm talking about. Pretty spiffy surprise.

Yeah, my mom got me three TMNT shirts from the Nick show. One is light green with all of the Turtles on it and it says, "Epic!" at the bottom, one is dark green and has the Turtles in the 2D animation style, which looks awesome, and the final one is orange with the Turtles on it and it says, "Turtle Attack!" on the bottom.

[IndigoErth]

Got three Turtles shirts myself, think they're my first ones believe it or not, I don't think I ever owned any when I was younger and last Christmas no one knew I was a fan again. Now that they knew they indulged me a little. lol Those shirts, three figures, the Leo Pillow Buddy (so my Build-a-Bear plushie has a new friend), and other TMNT related goodies.

Two of the shirts, from mom and sister, are the same print, but love the image (and unknown to them had seen it online before and already loved it) and the shirts are different colors and weights, so that's perfectly fine by me.

Edit: Oh yes, how could I forget to mention that my brother-in-law also made me a set of Turtles ornaments. And found it more difficult than he expected in trying to find green Christmas balls in the right size (I think he had to get boxes of mixed colors just to get one green from each), find a store with plain purple ribbon in the right size/type (who'd ever think that's hard to find... a Hallmark store saved the day), and figuring out a glue that works for glass, fabric and plastic without damaging the surface of the glass. He got them done though and look great. Even made the tails on the Leo one's mask the longest.

[blindturtle02]

Belated Merry Christmas to you dromers as well. We had a great one here in TX. It was crazy with all the Christmas shopping but I wouldn't have it any other way.

[MsMarvelDuckie]

Originally Posted by BubblyShell22

Yeah, my mom got me three TMNT shirts from the Nick show. One is light green with all of the Turtles on it and it says, "Epic!" at the bottom, one is dark green and has the Turtles in the 2D animation style, which looks awesome, and the final one is orange with the Turtles on it and it says, "Turtle Attack!" on the bottom.

I've seen all of those, Bubbly, and I think the dark green one is one of the same ones I have. I also have a green one with long (black) sleeves that has the Nick turtles and sais Ninjas in Training, and the other has the Nick ones on a "flier" that looks like notebook paper and Says Ninjas for Hire, and has the little strips on the bottom with a phone number. And my personal favorite, a dark purple one that has the OT ones on it and says Sorry, I only date ninjas. It's sort of my own little in-joke for my fics.

Merry late X-Mas, everyone, and I'm glad to see everyone enjoyed it.

[blindturtle02]

I wish they'd make shirts with the villains of TMNT also included. I'd love a Nick shirt with the boys taking on Shredder and his minions.