Lots of amazing stuff, actually lol - this has been a pretty awesome Christmas! The following is all from my dad - one hell of a Christmas!!!
Clothing-wise...
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100% cashmere Banana Republic black turtle neck
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100% cashmere Banana Republic black zip-up hoody
^^^ these were AWESOME as I had pretty much 0 black items in my closet!
In terms of beautification...
--A
$75.00 gift card to Sephora and a
Sephora train case for all my makeup. That I was totally psyched for because I am SO unorganized and I keep all my makeup all over the place - some on my dresser, some in a large burberry clutch I have and the rest in an LV makeup bag. Now I can finally use the clutch as a clutch! AND the train case is big enough to hold my OPI nail polish collection (side hobby *blushes*) and has a shoulder strap and everything
- and with the gift certificate and I can afford to fill it up a bit more *wink-wink* haha
For entertainment...
--I got the
Ally McBeal ultimate DVD set!!! I LOVE Ally McBeal - and my dad was able to locate the entire series on DVD.
--The first 2 seasons of
South Park on DVD (guilty pleasure
)
--A
$50.00 gift card to Starbucks and the
Starbucks "6 Seasons" set of different coffees. (yet another addiction...lol)
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LV agenda refills (I get these every Christmas) for my rouge vernis agenda PM
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A Playstation 3 with Guitar Hero 3 + wireless guitar as a joint gift to me and my DF. This is
sort of a disappointment (though I'm grateful!!) because this was
supposed to be a
Nintendo Wii for me and the DF to play.. but my dad couldn't get one (they're supposedly
impossible to get right now!) but
somehow he managed to get his hands on a PS3 - so got that with guitar hero because he knows we like that game (my brother fueled the majority of these purchases, he's 18 and knows game systems like no other, I swear lol)... and the idea in this was that if we didn't like the PS3, we could sell it back to Game Stop (where he got it from - you supposedly can't return these systems to this store because of their exclusivity...? ..So I'm told) in exchange for the Wii when they come in - which isn't until
February according to every store i've called - and they're a first come first serve basis - no pre-orders
. So I'm kinda sad. My brother bought us both
Super Mario Galaxy and
Mario Party 8 for the Wii when he first started shopping because he assumed my dad would have been able to get the Wii... so he gave us those as gifts Christmas morning - which I guess we'll return if we decide to keep the PS3 (DF is playing guitar hero behind me as we speak lol). Seeing how much he loves the PS3 I think I'll have to forsake my desire for the Wii - and they're so damn hard to find it's just such a PITA, really!
--The
Mac Leopard operating system (upgrade)
- this was what I wanted the MOST lol. I'm a huge Apple fan (secret Mac head... nerdy, I know) and my dad got me a MacBook as an early graduation gift in August when I accidentally broke my ibook - and then like, 2 months later Leopard came out and I was like ARG - if I had just waited 2 more months I could have gotten it with LEOPARD instead of the regular OSX. So I waited for the release of Leopard with great anticipation, but as a poor uni student I just waited for Christmas to get it - and I did! Installed it, using it now - LOVEEEEEE it!
And lastly,
a card with $500.00 in it to me, and a card with $200.00 to my SO in addition to all we got!!! We are so friggin' poor here at school - my DF (we're getting married in October!!) just graduated last week with his sociology BA - I'm student teaching in January as my last step to graduating with my Spanish/Secondary Ed BA - so that is ALOT of money lol - and so many gifts! We were and ARE seriously ecstatic. We didn't even give each other gifts this year as we're both currently jobless (student teaching doesn't pay, it's like interning
) and DF just had his first interview the week before Christmas (fingers crossed!) - so this was just spectacular!!!
At his house we did a Secret Santa exchange with his family - and we got a bunch of domestic stuff (on the "we're getting married in October" theme) - my fave is a
marble cheese set - a slab of marble as the cutting board and a matching cheese knife. We're HUGE fans of presentational cooking and entertaining - and we love, love, love cheese (sick, I know hehe) - so this was my fave. We also got some sort of wine opening thing that Steve (DF) was all sorts of hyped over - I didn't get it, but then again, that's probably because I'm never the one who opens the wine!
So that was my Christmas! It was lovely - so, so happy and grateful for everything. Being in college really puts everything into perspective. With the money, I'm considering buying some sort of leather bag for student teaching (I don't think it's appropriate to use my LV or any logo'd bags right away - and my only other leather bags are a black balenciaga city and a small white small coach hobo). I haven't bought a new bag in awhile - so maybe I'll set out a bit for a Tano bag... but I'm debating it... it may be more responsible simply to save