Despite several Lusternia-Solstice gripes, I didn't do too bad this year.

Slippers (<3)
Assassin's Creed
Mass Effect
Six collectible wolfish whiskey glasses (Wtf? And the promise that the family china cabinet is going to be inherited by me, le sighhhhh, I'll need to find a big house when I'm out of college)
Flatscreen monitor (<3!)
$600 from my father+stepmother towards my Japan trip.
Funding 100% finished for my Japan trip. (EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! <333)

No it's not.

The only thing right there is the word "bear," but it's a pandabear.

I bought myself a smaller (but higher resolution) wacom tablet.
Aaand...one of my previous foster mothers made me a scarf+hat+glove set, I just found the box she had shipped to me.

Well thats the joke my cousin told me when I was 12.

He probabbly cleaned it up/changed it for the book.

The version of the joke I heard was much better, and so I found it on the net for you.

http://forum.osnn.net/archive/index.php?t-20957.html

you may note that the joke was posted in 2002 and the book published in 2003

It's a book. About grammer. Lets leave it at that.

Nice pun


But I will not see good jokes ruined and turned into a bad joke for the sake of a book on grammer

edit: After doing some more research on the net, I found out that this is actually an Australian joke, and it should be a wombat not a koala, and should be "eats roots and leaves"

edit2: yes I am bored, I'm trying to get this lovely system fixed.

For Xmas I got...

120 hours trapped in a location with lots of rain, sheep and only a 56k modem
A bar of soap.
My gran's pension.
A helicopter.

You're making it sound like a bad thing..

Have you ever tried to get the smell of wet fleece out of the bedroom??

Or uploaded video clips on a 56k modem???

Edit: wait.. maybe I said too much...

I got 70 bucks (which I'm probably going to spend on Lusternia if I can)
a sweatshirt
a towel (it's tradition)
guitar hero 3
guitar for said game
3 CD's
snowboarding lessons
one of those wire storage unit things

Well, not being a pervert, I assume the wet fleece in the bedroom is the result of a wet coat, which could be stored somewhere else..

As for the 56k-issue.. I'd cry myself to sleep, but contently by the fact that it meets the rustic standard of everything else out there. Sounds like the perfect spot to settle down for me.

Well I've been stuffing myself with lovely food and, ahm, xmas cheer , and am split between reading The Tides of Blood, Dragonlance trilogy and The Extended Phenotype, by Richard Dawkins, so yeah actually it isn't so bad here.

Towels for my apartment.
Panties!!!
2 digital cameras. Both nice. (Note to self: if parents are divorced, give them seperate lists)
Fudge
3 pairs of nice jeans. 80 bucks a pop. Jeebus.
A hoodie
A nice shirt.
Perfume
10 2 litre bottles of Pineapple Fanta (*drool*)
75 bucks to Barnes and Noble
100 bucks cash from my Grandma
New Sheets.
3 of those little cards for my camera(s)...I can store over 3000 pictures now.
Socks
Cosmopolitan

I didn't ask for much, so didn't get much.

My New Time by Autumn
some marzipan fruits
a jumper (not in black!)
half a pair of socks (my mother's still knitting the other one)
a travel guide to india (where i'm likely to be going early in the year)
a universal mains plug adaptor with usb adaptor
and a beret.

I got a new iPod Nano! Which I am still in shock about. It is silver and it's lovely. It's tiny. I also got:

A piglet cover for my iPod
New Jimmy Carr DVD
New Ricky Gervais DVD
Fable: The Lost Chapters for PC
Lots and lots of chocolate
Forever Faithless CD
A case for my Oyster card (this makes me really happy)
Some toiletries
£20 from the grandparents

All in all it's wonderful. When we were opening presents though my mum hid my iPod, so we were opening everything under the tree and I had like, two things (a lot came in my stocking beforehand). I thought I had no presents for a while ^^;;

hrm I got:

- A FiveseveN
- PSP
- the last book of the Sword of Truth series
- bottle of 12yo scotch
- 1 week free off duty

From family I got gift cards to one of the malls, Gamestop (which is in t hat mall, so I might get something nice and pricey) Bookmans, and Borders

From friends I got mostly games and a gift certificate (woo, oldschool) to a game shop

oh, and a bathrobe with matching slippers

I got...

A candle set for my apt.
An IPod
A new purse
A $100 giftcard to Kohl's! (BRING ON THE SHOES)
A $25 giftcard for a local theater
CHOCOLATE (with an electric toothbrush!)
A pair of slippers and matching robe
Romance by Raulph Lauren
$50 gift card to Gamestop! (Wii would like to play!)
A scarf and hat set

....Aaaaaaalriiiiiight....

Blender
Crock Pot
12 pc Pots & Pans set
Cookbook
Candy
Shirts
Pajamas
Super Mario Galaxy
Nice sweater from Express.
$40 which I'm going to be spending on a Breadmaker.