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It's not even nine! When the hell did you open presents? We're still waiting for Thom to wake up.

When I was a kid I woke up at like... 5am on Christmas.

But now that I'm a single adult, we do afternoon Christmas lunch with the family, and exchange gifts sometime between Christmas and New Years, depending on when all the family decides they can get together.

Ever since I was about 11 or 12 years old, gifts have never been a big thing for Christmas or Birthdays. Probably because we were a poor family after my dad left the Navy.

We opened presents last night which is how they roll in my wife's family, then they lounge all day on Christmas. We actually have to go to my sister's later for dinner but that means the kids will have more presents today so I had no objections to the Christmas Eve thing.

Anyway, Flea got me a new mp3 player to make up for the one I managed to ruin in a tragic soda accident and she had done the "Hey, look at what you bought me for Christmas" thing before with some clothes. However, the baby somehow managed to get out long enough to buy his mom "Let's Dance 2" for the Wii so she still had a present to open.

We haven't gone to open gifts yet. This year was a little depressing, though. My mom and my step-dad have lost their jobs, so my brother and I decided to put all the money together we would've spent on them and each other and put it all on a Visa gift card and just give that to them. Then I called my dad and he said not to buy him anything because he doesn't have the money to get us anything. So after giving my brother my half of the money for mom and step-dad, I only had my niece to buy for. Then I spent $50 on Christmas cards to hand out to everyone today.

But we'll have fun playing games and maybe watching movies at mom's house. She's probably going to get mad that we put so much on a gift card for them, but oh well. She'll get over it.

A kindle, a new cutting board, some tea and a teapot, and this book. I actually got the kindle when it was first released, but my grandma just gives me money, so I put that towards part of the kindle.

It's been really good so far, I love family gatherings, and I have one more to go. There will probably be a few other times we all hang out next week with people being in from out of town and all. My immediate family always does a huge brunch and then presents in the morning

My two front teeth.

A couple shirts and ties, some cash, and a gift certificate to a brewing supply shop.

I got a laptop with 2.2 ghz 3 core amd cpu, ATI mobility Radeon HD 5470, 4 gigs of ram, 1600x900 17.3" monitor, etc from the parents, and around $150 from various relatives.

Chess set, boxing gloves, lots of books. Woke up at 12, started drinking at 1 pm, opened presents at 2 pm.

We just opened presents with immediate family: Bro, Mom, and Bro's GF. I got a nice cooler for work lunch, and a router (which I'm almost as excited about as the press). Now I can finally keep my PC and PS3 plugged in, which if anyone knows, it's a huge hassle to get my PS3 to recognize a new internet connection. Also I was pretty excited to get a 16GB USB drive.

I didn't get any socks this year though, which makes me a sad panda.

I think there is something seriously wrong with me. I read that as "Showering with my 1 year old niece was the best present!" at first.

Blacksmith puzzles--all of which are now solved but will serve quite well as conversation pieces and decor, cookies, a book about conversation styles, cuticle scissors, an ipod touch, and a comb.

Christmas festivities went quite well. Breakfast with the immediate family, where there was ample bacon to be had. Lunch-dinner--linner?--with the extended family. My first cousin once removed was revealed to be a boy, and we proceeded to murder each other several times over throughout the course of three games of mafia.

Edited, Dec 25th 2010 11:32pm by Allegory

Thom is still too young to understand the significance of Christmas, so he slept till about nine. My wife has been up, pacing back and forth, waiting for him so she could watch him open his stuff! He got a chalk/magnetic/dry-erase easel, a small car-playset thing, then a Handy Manny doll, some Pop-Pals construction workers, and a Hot Wheels car launcher. I got a pair of corduroys and a lunchbox.