This holiday seasons I was spoiled rotten. I’m not much for the gift giving at the holidays, I’m more of a birthday person, where we celebrate the individual, but this Christmas was a good one.  My finace got my a new laptop that I love, it’s a Lenovo Ideapad and it’s awesome. I’ve already gone through etsy and am thinking of purchasing a vinyl decal to put on it. These are the two I came up with:

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My awesome brother got me an ipod touch. I freakin’ love it! I was looking for some sort of PDA that would sync with google calendar so I wouldn’t have to buy anymore paper day planners to keep myself organized.  Not only does it do just that there are tons of other free applications that are extremely useful.  There’s an app for etsy and facebook, there’s also apps for knitting to help you keep track of your stash, rows and stitches on projects. There’s a yardage calculator app for sewing, the possibilities go on and on! I’m pretty much glued to the thing.

My finace is a huge computer geek and I am very thankful for him. Only hours after receiving my ipod, he had it programmed to control the home automation in our house. I can turn lights on and off from it, boot up our home theater system, browse movies and T.V. shows, select music to play. Amazing, sometimes I feel like I’m living with Bruce Wayne. If any of you have techy partners at home, my fiance, a.k.a. Batman, blogs about his technological endeavors at blog.mybarachois.com.

Other great gifts I love and love the people who gave them to me; Magic Bullet blender, Lulu sweatshirt, new drinking glasses, sushi set, cutlery, moose hide slippers, beautiful calendars of France, a GPS watch for my walks with Otto. And it wasn’t only me who got awesome gifts, pretty much everyone in the family did well, which brought us to postulate the reason why. My Mom and I concluded that perhaps it’s too often that Christmas comes (we haven’t done gifts the past couple years) and that gift giving should only happen every three years.

It’s just a thought, we all know the holidays are not about the material gifts but the gifts we cherish in our loved ones. It’s about visiting with family, being joyous, celebrating good fortune and giving to the less fortunate, and above all, love.

I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season.