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My Christmas Eve present was a new cell phone. I'm on the contract for two years, as well; and my dad said that was part of the gift. That's so awesome.

It has a camera in it. Bwa ha ha ha ha....

In theory we're going to clean house. Um, I'm starting to doubt it. I think I'm going to bed soon.

As a side note: I did indeed wrap everyone's presents in cut up paper bags that I stamped. It's harder to cut a stamp out of a potato than I thought. It was recognizable as a star, though; and looks really nifty. Brown paper bags are hard to tape up, especially since it's way stiffer than wrapping paper. But I feel good about it--they look really nifty, and I'm reusing the paper before it gets recycled. The ink pad was one from work they were going to throw out. I'm the environmentalist Martha Stewart. Except without the jail time.

I only wrapped the gifts for the people I'm seeing tomorrow. The rest can wait. I'll have to make another potato stamp.

It's hard to wrap spherical things.

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I didn't get an iPod, but I did get an mp3 player, and it has 20gb of space, so I can't say I'm disappointed. My dad has given me permission to use his computer to get my music onto the player. Woot.

As long as I can figure out how to get stuff onto my player, and move stuff around etc (different playlists! yes!), I'm all happy. It's not hard, I just literally copy and paste from my folder into the mp3 player, which shows up as an extra hard drive.

I'm listening to Fiona Apple currently. Hee hee. All I've uploaded is Kid A, one of alicia_stardust's mix albums, and the Fiona Apple album Extraordinary Machine.

Maybe I should knit one of those cute mp3 carriers. :^) This doesn't have flash memory, it's a hard drive, so I really don't want to drop it!

I've got on my dad's super nice professional-quality headphones (oh god, it's orgasmic, I'm telling you) but I should really try out the earbuds this came with.

So now I have to find almost every single damn CD I own and stick it on here. And start borrowing CDs from people to get on here. Bwah ha ha. I can almost guarantee that I'll eventually fill up this thing. At 128kbps, I can get around 5,000 songs on here, but we've decided to use 192kbps, so it's closer to 4,000 (oh, woe! Only four thousand songs! /sarcasm). There was a different mp3 rip program on here that had variable bit (which takes longer to rip, but then you can fit more music into the same memory without any noticeable loss in sound quality), but it's not as easy to use as Windows Media Player.

Don't iPods use USB as well? I could totally buy one of those "iPod home" things that plug your mp3 player into actual speakers and not worry about owning a boombox ever again.

Good lord, I sound like I actually know what I'm talking about.

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Other "loot":

A neato book filled with letters written by American women starting before the Revolutionary War. It's really awesome!! They were all left in their original form (misspellings, that sort of thing) and in their entirety, and are given historical context by the authors. That's the kind of history I really like: People from the actual time period talking about their lives. Even if they never expected people like us to read it. There's a letter from Margaret Sanger to Emma Goldman! A letter from Janis Joplin to a boyfriend! Also lots of letters by unknown people. There's one by a nurse writing to the mother of a man who died of the influenza during WW1, just before it became a global epidemic. She describes his last days and reassures her that he wasn't in any pain, that sort of thing. It's just amazing.

I got a trivia game that uses the DVD player, that's based on the Harry Potter movies. Hee. That should be fun.

My dad got me a jacket, but it isn't the kind I wanted. He totally didn't know what kind I wanted, and he told me when I opened it that he fully expected me to exchange it. I'm going to trade it for a Bugaboo from Columbia Sportswear. My mom got one too, I better get a different color! I really like the ones that have the waterproof shell on the outside and polar fleece on the inside that zip apart, so you can wear just the shell when it's wet but not all that cold.

Also: Brita filter for my future apartment, Butterball bath ballistic, dark chocolate bar, a few other odds and ends.

Ooh, I need to start with my massive CD upload. Renaming files = huge pain in the butt.

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My pancakes were way yummy. I need a shower and to dress nice. Later on we have relatives coming over, and then probably Wunderland! I wanna play DDR until my legs hurt.

I have tomorrow as a paid day off, which makes me all kinds of happy.

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I *heart* my mp3 player!! OMFG!!

*does the happy dance*

*does crappy belly-dancing to Brothers of the Baledi*

I have a bunch of CDs in the garage from when I grabbed some boxes from the Funny Farm. Soon they will be on my player. I am a happy camper.

( Much drooling over food! )

So, tomorrow: Brokeback Mountain, and Japanese food here at home. Woohoo!