I'm in Geeky Christmas Heaven!
Dec. 25th, 2009 01:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tarotgalOMG I got soooo many wonderful gifts so far this Christmas!
From bosses & coworkers:
Publications lunch from my boss
Office lunch from our acting director
Stationary set with post-it notes and magnets and notepad all matchy-matchy
Christmasy uber-soft socks with aloe and rubber no-slip treads
Set of file folders with my last name initial on them
Mousepad notepad with octopus on it
Bar of holiday milk chocolate
Old-timey postcard calendar of animals
Chocolates in a small bag with an old-timey Russian doll drawing and my name printed on there (screen printed? She won't tell me how she made it!)
Lots of cookies, cupcakes, sweets (for the whole office)
Pies and a cake from various publishers we use (for the whole office)
Coffee from one of our board members (for the whole office)
Tons of chocolate from our president & board of directors (for the whole office)
$40 Barnes & Noble gift card! (IMHO, a much better Christmas bonus than the nothing we got last year or the bottle of champagne that I don't drink the year before that)
From friends:
More than a handful of beautiful cards and postcards from online/faraway friends
Several eCards that have made me laugh and "Awwww!"
Set of 4 heart Christmas ornaments
Handmade card with tea
Giganto gingerbread cookie
Chocolate Frog (don't know what card is in it yet)
Wales patch
Torchwood playing cards
Torchwood book: Pack Animals
Torchwood book: Skypoint
Notepad with K on it
Absynthe mints in neat tin
LEGO Obi-Wan Clone Wars keychain
$20 LEGO Store gift card
2010 Scotland photography calendar
Anne of Green Gables Complete Collection DVD set (which I very nearly bought for myself a few weeks ago but by the time I decided to, it was out of stock)
Two Robin Hood audiobooks on CD read by Richard Armitage
Stocking gifts:
Hard candy and candy canes
Polar bear beenie baby
Foot cream
Scope mouthwash
GermX bottle
Band aid mini first aid kit
Orange
From family:
The Best of Adiemus: The Journey CD
New slippers (my current pair are being held together by several layers of duct tape)
I Am What I Am by John Barrowman
The 70th Anniversary Wizard of Oz Ultimate Collector's Edition box set on Blu-Ray
Flower Fairie Ornament- Elf Fairy (I picked this out myself when we went to Merrifield Garden Center as a family a week or so ago)
$25 iTunes Gift card
Real Simple Magazine renewal (why yes, I am a 40-year-old housewife at heart)
Gabby: Confessions of a Hockey Lifer by Bruce Boudreau and Tim Leone
$20 to be used for framing some of my posers that need to be framed & displayed
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull DVD
Let it Snow by John Green, Maureen Johnson, & Lauren Myracle
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Ultimate Edition on Blu-Ray
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Ultimate Edition on Blu-Ray
More importantly, everyone seemed to like the presents I sent/gave them. Which is a relief and makes me such a happy Hufflepuff!!!
Thank you to everyone for the presents and all of the wonderful holiday wishes on LJ, in the mail, and in e-mail! I hope you all have a great gift-giving season as well!
From bosses & coworkers:
Publications lunch from my boss
Office lunch from our acting director
Stationary set with post-it notes and magnets and notepad all matchy-matchy
Christmasy uber-soft socks with aloe and rubber no-slip treads
Set of file folders with my last name initial on them
Mousepad notepad with octopus on it
Bar of holiday milk chocolate
Old-timey postcard calendar of animals
Chocolates in a small bag with an old-timey Russian doll drawing and my name printed on there (screen printed? She won't tell me how she made it!)
Lots of cookies, cupcakes, sweets (for the whole office)
Pies and a cake from various publishers we use (for the whole office)
Coffee from one of our board members (for the whole office)
Tons of chocolate from our president & board of directors (for the whole office)
$40 Barnes & Noble gift card! (IMHO, a much better Christmas bonus than the nothing we got last year or the bottle of champagne that I don't drink the year before that)
From friends:
More than a handful of beautiful cards and postcards from online/faraway friends
Several eCards that have made me laugh and "Awwww!"
Set of 4 heart Christmas ornaments
Handmade card with tea
Giganto gingerbread cookie
Chocolate Frog (don't know what card is in it yet)
Wales patch
Torchwood playing cards
Torchwood book: Pack Animals
Torchwood book: Skypoint
Notepad with K on it
Absynthe mints in neat tin
LEGO Obi-Wan Clone Wars keychain
$20 LEGO Store gift card
2010 Scotland photography calendar
Anne of Green Gables Complete Collection DVD set (which I very nearly bought for myself a few weeks ago but by the time I decided to, it was out of stock)
Two Robin Hood audiobooks on CD read by Richard Armitage
Stocking gifts:
Hard candy and candy canes
Polar bear beenie baby
Foot cream
Scope mouthwash
GermX bottle
Band aid mini first aid kit
Orange
From family:
The Best of Adiemus: The Journey CD
New slippers (my current pair are being held together by several layers of duct tape)
I Am What I Am by John Barrowman
The 70th Anniversary Wizard of Oz Ultimate Collector's Edition box set on Blu-Ray
Flower Fairie Ornament- Elf Fairy (I picked this out myself when we went to Merrifield Garden Center as a family a week or so ago)
$25 iTunes Gift card
Real Simple Magazine renewal (why yes, I am a 40-year-old housewife at heart)
Gabby: Confessions of a Hockey Lifer by Bruce Boudreau and Tim Leone
$20 to be used for framing some of my posers that need to be framed & displayed
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull DVD
Let it Snow by John Green, Maureen Johnson, & Lauren Myracle
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Ultimate Edition on Blu-Ray
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Ultimate Edition on Blu-Ray
More importantly, everyone seemed to like the presents I sent/gave them. Which is a relief and makes me such a happy Hufflepuff!!!
Thank you to everyone for the presents and all of the wonderful holiday wishes on LJ, in the mail, and in e-mail! I hope you all have a great gift-giving season as well!
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Date: 2009-12-26 07:38 am (UTC)