Smashing haul of gifts this year!!!
My b/f really outdid himself with the gift giving, i mean goddamn! This has been the most… how should I put it without sounding like a greedy bastard… “lucrative?” christmas ever, thanx to him. Because if it were for my family, I’d be stuck with a bottle of perfume, a gift card from Gap and another one from Borders. Which are not bad, but they could totally take a lesson or two from my b/f when it comes to gift-giving.
The truckload of gifts I received from him left me speechless. Here’s the list:

- Margaret Cho’s latest stand-up concert: Assassin: Not as funny as his first ones, but still laughed my ass off. Hard. Especially when she went “Oh BOO-HOO!”. I swear one of these days I’m gonna fly to the US and see her live.

- Sin City Director’s cut DVD & Graphic novel combo : The definitive version of Sin City. Forget about that other crappy multiple cover version from a few months ago. This is THE Sin City DVD, complete with extended footage and a full graphic novel with Marv’s story.

- Dragon Bookends: KICK-ASS!! I’ve been searching for some decent bookends for my Harry P’s (among other monstrous books, I’m pretty fond of hardcovers), and these ones just blew me away. Two protruding dragon heads from a grave-like stone slab, with a gorgeous pentacle engraved on the other side. Awesome enough to make my mom freak out and shower me in holy water (or a gasoline and lighter combo, since I’m already going to hell according to her standards). Wait ’till my brother sees it. He’s naïve enough to find satanic messages in Ace of Base songs. Finding a pentacle in my room should send him into a paranoid state of frenzy.

- Plasma lamp: Ever since I saw one of those contraptions I swore one day I’d have one shining in my room. It’s one of those crystal orbs with a plasma rod in the middle which generates these cool miniature lighting bolts which react to your touch. I’ve made it a habit to turn it on in total darkness and stare at it like an idiot. A simple gift, but it made me happy as hell.

- Two PC/PS2 USB joypads: Ok, first of all I need to clarify that the reason why I have not updated regularly this blog, or entered forums, or done ANYTHING productive in the last few weeks is called M.U.G.E.N. It’s a computer fighting game engine which you can program and customize to create your very own fighting game with as many characters as your computer can hold. It’s been a challenge, especially when trying to apply what little remnants of computer programming I still hold in my mind, and so far I’ve been able to customize it for about 500 characters, and still growing. Needless to say, playing fighting games with a keyboard is a royal pain in the ass, so my boyfriend, thoughtful little darling that he is, got me these wicked joypads, which not only work perfectly with the game, but are also compatible with my PS2. How cool is that? it’s like 4 game controllers for the price of 2!! My b/f is a fuckin’ genious, indeed.

Since I know I gave him a hard time because I didn’t even know what I wanted for christmas, I made sure the gifts I chose for him were all worth it, I didn’t care how much money it would take me. And to this day he still thanks me. His face when opening the gifts was priceless. At first, he was a bit confused, since I wrapped my gifts to look as if it were one single big box. Wrong! inside the box was a gift combo that knocked his socks off, which included: a brand new leather wallet (his old one was so battered and fucked up he was ashamed of showing it in public, it looked like Cerberus’ chew toy), the Battlestar Galactica miniseries dvd, along with the whole battlestar galactica season one dvd set (hey, it was on sale, I had to take advantage of it), The Prince of Persia: Two thrones PS2 game, which he is still playing feverishly, and a WinTV PVR system, complete with remote control, so he can record all his shows and store them or burn them later. He got so giddy with this last one, that a couple of days later he went out and bought himself a 250 GB internal drive, just so he can stuff it with all the shows he wants to record, and then some.
We were both giggling japanese schoolgirls by the time we finished opening the gifts, some of which we started using right away. It was the second most awesome christmas ever. And hopefully, the second of many, many more holidays to come. I had to give up hanging out in one of my family’s boring get-togethers for this, and it was more than worth it, it was necessary. I NEEDED to share this special time with my loved one or we’d both go mad. Besides, the need to see my b/f’s face light up as he opened the gifts was way too strong, so I didn’t care if my mom or dad felt once again “betrayed” because I didn’t spend a holiday with them. Especially after spending a really depressing thanksgiving dinner with them. I wasn’t about to repeat the same experience anytime soon.

Ever since HE came into my life I haven’t felt the same about Christmas. I used to never expect anything from anyone, and now, I can’t fuckin’ wait until next year, where we will be exchanging gifts in the comfort of *our own place*.

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