Merry "Not-really-jesus's-birthday-but-as-good-a-day-as-any-to-celebrate-it (or to celebrate in the spirit of anything or anyone you'd like to)", and a happy "new year-according-to-our-"romanized"-calander, or whichever calander you adhere to"!

Best Christmas Moment: My mom is handed a present that is shaped like a cylinder, from my dad. She opens it, and there before her sits something that invokes confusion. I look and there in her hands is an unwrapped canister of shoe-cleaner. She stares, unsure of what to say. "What is this?" she asks several times. And lo, there descended amongst us an awkward silence.

Worst Christmas Moment: Tossing two paintings away that were supposed to be gifts to the family and settling for a small, hand drawn card.

Worst Gift: A little plastic transformer. They just don't make em Like they used to. Big, and made out of Die Cast.

Best Christmas Gift: The new printer/scanner and tool set! Both equally awesome!

Worst Christmas TV Special endured: It's a Wonderful Life is only 2 hours long. I now understand and know the story well enough that it seems closer to 2 hours than 10 (when I don't know what's going on, it seems much longer). But it just doesn't engender the feeling of christmas.