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A small but nice Christmas haul
Dec. 25th, 2020 08:58 pmMerry Christmas and Happy Friday!
This was the first year since 2006 that I was not home for Christmas. It is usually one of two holidays where I fly home to see the rest of my family, but both those holidays were cancelled thanks to the country's failure to control the pandemic, so we had a little zoom hello and that was it. There was also no gift exchanging between the family. The logistics are bad and we're all kinda old and gurmpy about getting stuff we don't need.
There was some gift exchanging done between house mates though. I didn't spend too much time looking because I didn't want to walk into any shops this year, but I did my best. My roommates in turn got me some very nice things! One of them "got me" the facsimiles of Hilma Af Klint's notebooks. I say "got me" because what had happened was earlier in the year he had accidentally bought the book with a different one that he wanted. It was pretty expensive so I offered to buy it off him so he wouldn't have to eat the cost. He said he'd think about it but never got back to me on it and then this Christmas he gifted it to me lol. It actually works out great because I was meaning to ask him if he had considered selling me the book recently, cause I did want it. If you haven't seen her images they are really amazing.
My other roommate got me some steam gift cards for Christmas, which is something I asked for when we were all brainstorming what to get last month. I am super stingy about buying games because I don't like getting something new when I have stuff yet to play, so these are always a great gift for me that lets me stop judging myself and just splurge on something that isn't 10 years old. Now I have to decide what to buy.
I think at this point I'm trying to decide between:
Nier Automata
Octopath Traveller
Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC
Children of Morta
or Disco Elysium
I could maybe get two but certainly not all of them. I've got some time to decide before the winter sale is over but I don't want to miss my chance for the big discounts. Decisions decisions!
Hopefully everyone got something nice for Christmas/Hanukah this year!
This was the first year since 2006 that I was not home for Christmas. It is usually one of two holidays where I fly home to see the rest of my family, but both those holidays were cancelled thanks to the country's failure to control the pandemic, so we had a little zoom hello and that was it. There was also no gift exchanging between the family. The logistics are bad and we're all kinda old and gurmpy about getting stuff we don't need.
There was some gift exchanging done between house mates though. I didn't spend too much time looking because I didn't want to walk into any shops this year, but I did my best. My roommates in turn got me some very nice things! One of them "got me" the facsimiles of Hilma Af Klint's notebooks. I say "got me" because what had happened was earlier in the year he had accidentally bought the book with a different one that he wanted. It was pretty expensive so I offered to buy it off him so he wouldn't have to eat the cost. He said he'd think about it but never got back to me on it and then this Christmas he gifted it to me lol. It actually works out great because I was meaning to ask him if he had considered selling me the book recently, cause I did want it. If you haven't seen her images they are really amazing.
My other roommate got me some steam gift cards for Christmas, which is something I asked for when we were all brainstorming what to get last month. I am super stingy about buying games because I don't like getting something new when I have stuff yet to play, so these are always a great gift for me that lets me stop judging myself and just splurge on something that isn't 10 years old. Now I have to decide what to buy.
I think at this point I'm trying to decide between:
Nier Automata
Octopath Traveller
Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC
Children of Morta
or Disco Elysium
I could maybe get two but certainly not all of them. I've got some time to decide before the winter sale is over but I don't want to miss my chance for the big discounts. Decisions decisions!
Hopefully everyone got something nice for Christmas/Hanukah this year!
