Spoils
A few months ago a friend showed me the setting on Facebook that turns everything into "Pirate." It's tucked into the languages options, and once it's on, your Wall is now your Plank, your Friends are now Me Hearties, Home is now Home Port, and so on. Everything written on Facebook is translated into Pirate, and since it's in beta, you can contribute to the translation, if you think squawkbox isn't an appropriate translation of phone(number).
All this is to say that when I think about my Christmas presents, I tend to think of them as spoils, booty, or loot, and although I've probably been thinking this way for a long time, I'd like to attribute some of this attitude to my facebook language settings.
We had a scaled-back Christmas, and it's about the right time for it, since all five of the kids are old enough not to need the more superstitious aspects of the holiday reaffirmed with mountains of wrapped boxes. At this point, we understand that "Santa" pays for gifts with stock investments and not just magic, and even he was hit hard. It didn't go exactly as we discussed over Thanksgiving -- that each of us would give each member of the family one gift -- but it seemed like most of the kids got eachother gifts, or at least something for mom & dad, and then mom & dad got each of the kids enough presents to make up for the slacker siblings.
Nina sewed me a beautifully ugly plush cat, and is going to make it a tail & a collar any day now. She forgot to wrap it, but thankfully when I went to wake her up on Christmas morning, I noticed it under her desk and saw that she'd sewed something. She gave it to me then and there!
The rest of the day was spent watching movies on the big screen and the new speakers that my dad bought the family. they are nice -- the sleeker, thinner TV turned out to have waaaay less bass than the older TV, so the additional subwoofer is much appreciated, especially for sound-driven films like Wall-E (one of my top movies of the year).
I also got a teapot & teacups (japanese-style, not british-style), some Giraffe-shaped measuring spoons, paint brushes, $50 in $2-bills from grandma niecee, and after the holiday, a Gossip Girl calendar from my mom. And Wall-E on DVD, but I think I'm going to leave that one with the family.
*Self-concious moment of blogging doubt*
(Is this the worst kind of blog post? Rambly, self-centered, just silly commentary on silly things. But hey, I'm not repping that this is some kind of awesome blog. It's just an outlet for when the words build up in my head.)
All this is to say that when I think about my Christmas presents, I tend to think of them as spoils, booty, or loot, and although I've probably been thinking this way for a long time, I'd like to attribute some of this attitude to my facebook language settings.
We had a scaled-back Christmas, and it's about the right time for it, since all five of the kids are old enough not to need the more superstitious aspects of the holiday reaffirmed with mountains of wrapped boxes. At this point, we understand that "Santa" pays for gifts with stock investments and not just magic, and even he was hit hard. It didn't go exactly as we discussed over Thanksgiving -- that each of us would give each member of the family one gift -- but it seemed like most of the kids got eachother gifts, or at least something for mom & dad, and then mom & dad got each of the kids enough presents to make up for the slacker siblings.
Nina sewed me a beautifully ugly plush cat, and is going to make it a tail & a collar any day now. She forgot to wrap it, but thankfully when I went to wake her up on Christmas morning, I noticed it under her desk and saw that she'd sewed something. She gave it to me then and there!
The rest of the day was spent watching movies on the big screen and the new speakers that my dad bought the family. they are nice -- the sleeker, thinner TV turned out to have waaaay less bass than the older TV, so the additional subwoofer is much appreciated, especially for sound-driven films like Wall-E (one of my top movies of the year).
I also got a teapot & teacups (japanese-style, not british-style), some Giraffe-shaped measuring spoons, paint brushes, $50 in $2-bills from grandma niecee, and after the holiday, a Gossip Girl calendar from my mom. And Wall-E on DVD, but I think I'm going to leave that one with the family.
*Self-concious moment of blogging doubt*
(Is this the worst kind of blog post? Rambly, self-centered, just silly commentary on silly things. But hey, I'm not repping that this is some kind of awesome blog. It's just an outlet for when the words build up in my head.)
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