As the week ticked by, and we finished our visits with friends and family, my girl and I finally got around to opening our Christmas gifts under the tree to each other.
This included the dog's gifts, which he's more than excited about to open himself, and then immediately jumps to assist with opening everyone else's.
Truthfully, him making it through the Christmas season was the best gift we could get. He's not only considered to be an older dog, but his diabetes has his overall health constantly up and down. This isn't helped by the cataracts which have formed in his eyes, and growths which consistently impact his ability to walk, all of which are more side effects from the diabetes. We thank Jesus for each day we get with him.
Just watching his face light up as he opened package after package, his or ours, was a much needed joyful time.
...Even when he didn't stop at just the paper.
My girl got me a lot of great gifts, focusing most of it on items for our Fallout (and red themed) Kitchen.
Jones periodically releases sodas based on the Fallout universe, and this year they released a Nuka Grape, and Sunset Sarsaparilla. As an added bonus, they re-released their Nuka Quantum. For those fortunate enough to find them, Costco had a really cool limited box which contained several bottles of the drinks in a unique case. I tried to track these down, but alas, they were sold out virtually everywhere. Online places that did have them, while reasonably priced for the sodas, but after shipping, it simply wasn't worth it. Still, I really wanted them, and my girl knew this, so she tracked them down.
She also got me the Amazon exclusive 4k steel book of season one of the television series.
The boxed items included a statue of Dogmeat, which includes a second head. In review of the photo, it's rather horrific seeing it on the ground underneath the model. Next up was a rubber ducky decked out in Nuka T-51 power armor. Last up, was a fully functional Nuka Cola radio. However, it's not just a radio, it includes blue tooth capabilities to link up with devices, and a memory card to put your own MP3s on. I'm thinking of grabbing some stuff from the games to put on the card, such as the Silver Shroud radio programs, Nuka World, and Galaxy News Radio.
After getting everything opened, I set it p on my Fallout counter in the kitchen. It's getting pretty full!
Next up for our kitchen was something simple, but something I've wanted for a long time.
Popcorn is one of my favorite snacks, and I've wanted a red air popper for quite some time. My girl went all out, grabbing not only the popper, but popcorn, some flavor shakers, and popcorn buckers.
This all fit nicely in the last Fallout related item I got, which was a wooden Nuka Cola crate.
I immediately set it up, and made us a batch.
It was fantastic!
The last kitchen items were various red kitchen gadgets. These included very needed canisters for things such as flour, sugar, etc., a mandolin for easy slicing, a whisk, and electric hand mixer.
Last up were some great items to add to my various collections. For Spider-Man, I got a silver cover Todd McFarlane signed Spider-Man number one. This is the red stamped version he signed back in the day for
The Spider's Web comic shop.
This was accompanied by a signature series Spider-Man statue depicting the corner box from issue number one. It comes with a signed card by Todd McFarlane, thus the "signature series" title.
I also received the awesome Peanuts Ultimate TV Specials collection on DVD. It contains forty classics remastered on five discs, and includes a twenty-eight pack booklet. It contains most of the shorts which aired between 1965, and 2011. Though, there are some from the 80's which are missing that I wish were on here. The booklet offers a glossary of the shorts on the set, while adding limited information about them from page to page. Still, it was a must have for my cartoon DVD collection.
Last up were three CD's which were on my want list on Discogs. These included Judy Torres's Love Story (1989), Paul King's Joy (1987), and the Japanese exclusive, Like A Virgin and Other Big Hits from Madonna (1984).
With all the gifts opened, we settled in to watch the remaining episodes we were behind on for Stranger Things, while the dog played with one of his many new toys.
Overall, we all enjoyed the holiday season.Click "HERE" to go back to the home page. For more posts related to this one, please click the labels below.
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