Christmas 2008

I want to wish everyone a merry Christmas!

I spent this morning making Belgian waffles (complete with strawberries, bananas and whipped cream), coffee and bacon. Anna got home from work at 9:00 a.m., we ate, opened presents and then Anna went to sleep.

I hooked-up the XBox 360 to the work-out room’s tv and to the internet, logged into XBox Live and, voila! Played Gears of War 2 on-line for nearly 2 hours while walking on the treadmill. A 4% incline at approximately 2 mph is awesome! No more just sitting on my butt when I play video games.

Christmas Presents

Yesterday I finally got around to shopping for presents. It seemed the appropriate day. I had some time by myself and some money in my pocket.

Started off with a trip to the MacStore down on Lake Otis. I wasn’t sure if I wanted to do it at first but in the end I bought a MacBook for Anna as a present. It’s the base model but I got Applecare with it because when I haven’t gotten extended warranties in the past for my laptops the laptops have always broken. It’s just one of those things. Now, of course, when I do buy the extended warranties (which I do only on expensive items, not $200 stereos or anything like that) nothing ever goes wrong. But, I’m thinking there may be something that will go amiss as to the wireless connection with my Netgear router so I can always call Apple and that will be sorted out.

Next on the list was an iPod Shuffle 2G. The store was out of them (very knowledgeable staff btw) but I knew Anna wanted one so I got her a Nano 2G instead. Vastly different types of iPods but that’s what Christmas is for, right? Giving? Making people whom you love happy? Or is it just the simple things like not being a complete bastard to others for a day or two? I think I’ll go with the latter.

Finished off the shopping today with some headphones that Anna wanted. After that, I called the sister and got her to do some shopping for the parents as I live very far away from them and she, well, doesn’t. Next, called the mother and spoke with her in our weekly telephone conversation. Got her to go ahead and buy stuff for the sister for me due to the same reason I didn’t buy the parents gifts (geography).

Finally, came home, put up the new stockings in front of the fireplace and ate some semi-edible fancy soup.