Zhanteimi

I asked my daughters to make a cheese ball for Xmas. They gave me this:



Three kinds of cheese, bacon, spring onions, and seasoning.

ladyislingering

This was my first sober Christmas in 6 years.

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grindy

Awesome Christmas this year.

Our traditional party with friends on the 24th was even more awesome, wild and generally ****ed up than ever.
Spent the next day recovering from all that.
Today was our Chrismas dinner at my mom's. A little boring, but chill and with the usual amazing food. At some point I realized that we were listening to Fred Frith (as a sideman, but still) which also made this the musically best Christmas ever. Also found out my mom loves Rodriguez, who was also cool and surprising to listen to with the 'family'.

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Plankton

Been busy as **** lately, but this week should be a bit of a break for me. I had 3 Xmas parties to hit this year, and 2 of them were a good 1-2 hours away, and of course I had to drive everybody. The x-GF's family party was insane. The main family of 4 girls and 3 boys, who all but one have children and grandchildren, so that's approximately 40 people to buy for right there. Crazy. Good thing the x-GF shops for me for all of them. I had our work party, then went to my Dad's for Christmas Day. Lot's a great food, and plenty of good beer and wine, and I played a little Xmas medley on my Ukulele for everyone.

Daughter - Android Tablet, a Bluetooth Speaker Tower, and covered her bills for one month (about $500).

X-GF - New Vacuum (she actually wanted this). She told me she had never had a brand new one before, so this was a bit special for her. *shrug*

Dad - Digital Drawing Tablet. He used to be big into painting murals and such, but hasn't really done any sort of creating in a while. I'm hoping this sparks a new interest in digital creations.

Step-Mom - A Kindle. She was almost in tears. All her friends have them, but since she never buys things for herself, she never thought about getting one herself.

As for what I got, here's the haul:

• Martin Backpacker guitar (my daughter got me this, bless her heart)
• Christmas Carols for Ukulele chord book (the sheet of paper is an email notifying that the actual Black Sabbath for Ukulele chord book is still in processing)
• Dunlop System 65 Guitar Maintenance Kit (never used any of this, we'll see)
• Fender Custom Shop Calendar (incredible eye candy)
• Metal Guitar Man (well, of course)
• Boss DD-3 (I actually wanted one of these)

I'm just glad things can get back to normal now.

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Frownland

I thought that the vacuum was a way of telling your ex that she sucked. Punny pettiness opportunity squandered.

Also I'm always shocked at the quality of those backpack guitars, the Martins especially.

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Plankton

She doesn't suck tho, that's why she's the Ex.

*rimshot*

The action is a bit high up the neck (no truss rod either), and the tone is thin, but it's really well made. Hard to play without a strap though.

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Pet_Sounds

You are such a noble, selfless guy, TH. Seriously.

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Chula Vista

Saint fits.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Trollheart

Nah, I'm just a concerned brother who wants to do all he can for his sister who used to be so full of life and left a string of broken hearts in her wake. Sad how things go, but you have to make the best of it. Her mental attitude is absolutely amazing, I have to say.

But thanks anyway. And Happy Christmas to you both.

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Chula Vista

Check your PM Troll. Happy Holidays brother!

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”