I have really enjoyed reading this thread - it is lovely to hear what everybody gave and received for Christmas...
I received exactly four gifts for Christmas. One from my hubby and one from each of my kids. I went shopping in a town an hour from here (it is called Emerald) the week before Christmas, and bought myself two new books and two pairs of shorts, which I then felt guilty about so I gave them to my hubby and told him to wrap them and have the kids give them to me for Chrissy gifts. lol. Unfortunately, due to being the control freak that I am, I rarely receive surprises or gifts from people as I generally control the money in our family and so my poor hubby has to tell me when he needs money for anything, and so I can never be surprised! Likewise, he has said a number of times, "would you like something for your photography for christmas/birthday etc?" to which I have always replied "no way, you'll buy me something that I can't use/that isn't needed etc" or worse still, knowing him, it would be something very cheap and nasty! lol.. So, anyways, the books that I "received" are by Anne Geddes. I am sure that you all know who she is, and for those who don't, just google her name, and you'll soon find out. I LOVE her work, and I am sure that as soon as you see it, you will all understand why. It is so very "ME"~! These two new books entitled "PURE" and "UNTIL NOW" are now taking pride of place near my 'puter and will soon become very worn out "reference" manuals, as I love to use her work as inspiration for mine... (ok, no lectures about copyright/plagurism etc, I don't ever like to "copy" her stuff, in fact, I like to check what she HAS done and then do things that I know that she HASN'T, iykwim?) I bought a DVD player for my hubby, who then spent most of Christmas Day swearing at it, until I came in and after reading TWO pages of the manual, pressed 3 buttons on the remote control and BAM, it worked! lol... So we spent the afternoon watching Matrix Reloaded and blowing our eardrums to smitherins with Dolby Prologic Surround Sound. I also made the mistake of allowing "SANTA" to bring the kids Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory on DVD, and if I hear one more "Ooompa Loompa" song, I am going to scream! lol... tan. ----- Original Message ----- From: "frank theriault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 11:39 AM Subject: Re: Santa dropped by ... > Well, I didn't get anything photography related for Christmas. I think that > those in my world (quite rightly) figure that what I want is stuff that > they've never heard of, and would consider spectacularly expensive. After > all, my mother thinks "high end" is a disposable with a built-in flash <g>. > > God bless her, though, my mom got me some Kodak colour print film. Didn't > have the heart to tell her that for less than the price of processing the > stuff, I can buy Agfa with processing included at Downtown Camera, which has > the best minilab I've come across in Toronto. She tried, though, and I love > her for that. > > She also gave me a gift certificate for the HMV record chain, and yesterday > I got a couple of CD's with it - a couple of great ones: McCoy Tyner's "The > Real McCoy" and "Stan Getz & Bill Evans". I've been grooving all day to > those two! <g> > > I got spoiled, so I won't go into the rest of my gifts. 'T'was a wonderful > Christmas for me. > > More importantly, my kids got even more spoiled than I did, and I got to > spend the day with them... > > cheers, > frank > > "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist > fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer > > > > > >From: "Bill Owens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: Re: Santa dropped by ... > >Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 18:43:23 -0500 > > > >And I bought my nephew's euphonium. Now I just need to learn the fingering > >for a valved instrument. > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. > http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/bcomm&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoin.msn.com%2f%3fpage%3dmisc%2fspecialoffers%26pgmarket%3den-ca >
