What You Got For Holiday 2012

[The Chronicler]

I didn't get much, as usual:


- a Lego set (LEGO City: Space Launch Pad) (there was a second, much larger, set that I also wanted (also LEGO City space-related), but I guess the cost was just too much for my parents)
- one of those 4D Cityscape Time Puzzles (Last year, I got New York and Washington D.C. This year, I got the country of USA. It was a good way to spend the day without an internet connection. (until I got to the part where I had to remove the plastic pieces from those rack things. The connections were so thick that I had to use an xacto knife to remove them, adding four hours of frustration to a puzzle that should have taken no more than six hours to finish. ))
- and a set of headphones, because my dad frequently complains that I always turn up the volume on the TV if someone else is in the room.

[FreckledOne]

The flu.  
And an Avatar: The Last Airbender artbook!

[Petrie85]

Sorry to hear you got sick freckled one. I got a couple Games and so on.

[Pangaea]

Well, I’m weeks late, but here’s my list of what I got for Christmas:

Dinosaur models:

• Carnegie 2011 Carnotaurus
  
• CollectA Argentinosaurus
  
• CollectA Kosmoceratops
  
• Wild Safari 2008 Allosaurus
  

Food:

• A bottle of barbecue sauce (I love BBQ wings ) on which my sister had used a marker to doodle my signature bushy beard and “bullhorn sideburns” on the faces of the two guys in the logo.
  
• A little bottle of vodka shaped like a human skull. :huh: (I’m really not much of a vodka drinker, but it was kind of funny.
  
• A 2-liter bottle of Diet Coke and a pack of Mentos (I had shown my mom the Mythbusters' "Diet Coke + Mentos" episode earlier that month, and evidently she found it so fascinating that she bought four sets of these, for me and each of my siblings. The cola geysers we managed to create weren’t too spectacular, but it was neat nonetheless.)
  

Books:

• Drawn from Paradise: The Discovery, Art and Natural History of the Birds of Paradise by David Attenborough and Errol Fuller
  
• Dinosaur Art: The World's Greatest Paleoart by Steve White
  
• A Field Guide to Mesozoic Birds and Other Winged Dinosaurs by Matthew P. Martyniuk, an awesome book about feathered dinosaurs laid out exactly like a birdwatcher’s Audubon field guide.
  
• All Yesterdays: Unique and Speculative Views of Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals by Darren Naish, C.M. Kosemen, John Conway, and Scott Hartman, my favorite among the books I received. I enjoyed this one so much that I may make a special thread for it in the “Member Recommendations” section.
  

And, as usual, I received a complement of awesome and hilarious hand-drawn Christmas cards from my siblings.