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xxhplinkxx wrote:Cause I dont like my family.

I understand what you're saying. But I hope you have some sort of bright side to look on. Just think about me... My parents used to beat me (I was literally a nightmare when I was a kid!). And my family are almost as close now as we've ever been before (my Brother and I don't even fight anymore). You sort of have to be responsible for your entire notion of happiness. But it still really sucks that you wouldn't get anything for Christmas. I'd say: guilt your friends into sending you late Christmas gifts via mail, and try to treat yourself to something special. Do something for yourself that you don't normally do. If you can't make yourself feel better, you're in trouble. But - family are all about trials and tribulations. They put up with a little from you, and you put up with a ton from them. At least, that applies to me. And remember my motto... If I can do it - anyone in the entire world can do it. Unless they have no arms and legs. Or are blind and deaf at the same time. Just think: you could be blind and deaf with no arms or legs.

Julian Carter wrote:Ooopss...by the way! I still have to apologize for not including you in that cast list on that other thread, remember? I want you to know that I haven't forgotten you. By the way, since I want to cheer you up, this is an opportune moment for me to say that you look friggin awesome as captain Jack Sparrow!

Thanks a lot, it definitely helped!

And Lazario, I can kinda relate to how you described your childhood. (Its not easy being the gay guy in the family ) And I also know exactly what you mean about trying to look on the bright side of things, its just been hard lately since my support crew, my friends, are so far away this christmas. But, I've been told by my best friend that he'll be coming up this weekend, so hopefully he and I can go to Islands of Adventure together!

Thanks for the cheering up guys

xxhplinkxx wrote:And Lazario, I can kinda relate to how you described your childhood. (Its not easy being the gay guy in the family ) And I also know exactly what you mean about trying to look on the bright side of things, its just been hard lately since my support crew, my friends, are so far away this christmas. But, I've been told by my best friend that he'll be coming up this weekend, so hopefully he and I can go to Islands of Adventure together! Thanks for the cheering up guys

One of my Current Mottos is really, to remember that other people can't always take care of you. That you have to take care of yourself, because no matter how much it seems like your friends understand you, we all know that we can't always use other people to make us feel better. And this, of course, means that we are personally responsible for our own self-esteem. That when we feel bad, about anything, we aren't always able to go have a good time with friends. So we need to be our own 1-person support groups. Just so those dark hours alone that we all need to spend to be fully operational human beings, don't last too long.

And didn't you tell us you aren't "Out" to your family? Perhaps that is helping to cause some of that friction between you and your family. That is certainly one of the reasons I had so much trouble with my family. In fact I still resent the fact that my extremely insensitive (way more than I am- ha ha) Father, Mother, and Brother are somehow Instantly granted more freedoms, liberties, and rights than I am. But, they probably need more than I do. They each certainly have more problems (Brother's a Full-Blown alcoholic with 1 jail sentence under his belt, Father has Diabetes, is Problematically Overweight and suffers from unbelievable joint pain, and my Mother suffers from a wide range of addictive behaviors she's trying desperately to quit while all her friends drink hard and smoke, not to mention she also can't breathe without the aid of an inhaler). And I would like to think it's because my 1 real problem comes from Insensitive, Evil, Intolerant people in the world. But no one can take away all the great things that I have inside my personality (the one you all don't know about - ). When it all piles too high - I just remember that.

Well, me and my mom went out to stores today for the whole "Day After Christmas" sales, and so my mom got me more stuff. (Which she told me to consider more Christmas presents) So, I also got:

A Pirates of the Caribbean calandar
Japanese themed Christmas cards (to send out next year)
Yankee candle holder with a little girl and a walrus fishing (which is adorable!)

and at Target, we found a ton of DVD's that were kind of bad/unknown movies and shorts for (get this) 50 cents. AND to top that off, we found SEVERAL DVD's that had 10 classic cartoon shorts on them (many very old, and black/white), including Woody Woodpecker, Casper, Betty Boop, Oswald Rabbit (no, not a typo), Felix the cat, Popeye, Krazy Kat, and others! Each DVD had 10 shorts, each with varying ages (black and white as well as color) as well as different "stars". Each being only $.50!!! So, naturally my mom and I picked up three different ones entitled: "Pee Wee Cartoons", "Comic-Strip Favorites", and "Cartoon Superstars." (I believe there were one or two others, but my mom put her foot down at 3). Oh, and in case you're interested, they're manufactured by "PC Treasures Inc." Does anyone else know about these DVD's or own them!? A large majority of them aren't restored at all, and have a lot of artifacts and such, but seriously who can complain for only 50 cents?!

-BB

brotherbear wrote:and at Target, we found a ton of DVD's that were kind of bad/unknown movies and shorts for (get this) 50 cents. AND to top that off, we found SEVERAL DVD's that had 10 classic cartoon shorts on them (many very old, and black/white), including Woody Woodpecker, Casper, Betty Boop, Oswald Rabbit (no, not a typo), Felix the cat, Popeye, Krazy Kat, and others! Each DVD had 10 shorts, each with varying ages (black and white as well as color) as well as different "stars". Each being only $.50!!! So, naturally my mom and I picked up three different ones entitled: "Pee Wee Cartoons", "Comic-Strip Favorites", and "Cartoon Superstars." (I believe there were one or two others, but my mom put her foot down at 3). Oh, and in case you're interested, they're manufactured by "PC Treasures Inc." Does anyone else know about these DVD's or own them!? A large majority of them aren't restored at all, and have a lot of artifacts and such, but seriously who can complain for only 50 cents?!

Congratulations, brotherbear! You discovered the joy that is the public domain!

Escapay

My christmas if you include all the things bought with Cash....

WDT - Pluto V.2
WDT - SS V.2
Robin Hood
Fox and the Hound
Law & Order: Criminal Intent Season 2
Law & Order: Trial by Jury - TCS
JAG - Season 2
NCIS - Season 1
The Complete Disney Encyclopedia
Disney Chess
A Wonderful Japanese porceline Salt & Pepper set (from Japan)
and the Annapolis Maryland S&P set (I collect S&Ps)

From my dad:

King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride (made for XP since my copy from 1995 doesn't play on my current computers)
Chicken Run
Ice Age
Rock-a-Doodle
The Animated Movie Guide (book)
Disney Scene It?
2006 Walt Disney Collector's Society membership (I wanted the Ariel figurine)
My dad said he's going to buy me this glass case from IKEA that I asked for in January. But for now all of my Disney figurines and snowglobes will have to remain in their boxes, off display...

From my mom:

Disney A-to-Z Encyclopedia (the recent edition)
The Animated Movie Guide*
A top that was too small from Abercrombie & Fitch*
A lace cami from A&F
Blue ballet flats from Nordstrom's*
A giant drawing pad
Who's Who in Animated Movies and Cartoons (book)

* = stuff I exchanged for:
Monster House
2 lace camis from A&F
A pretty cute pair of shoes from Nordstrom's

I'm pretty happy about my gifts. My favorite one would definitely be the WDCC membership. I also like the dvds because now I own 77 animated movies on dvd (not including double dips or compilations of shorts).

Off the top of my head...

DVDs:
Dinosaurs The Complete 1st and 2nd Seasons
Golden Girls Complete Sixth Season
The Little Mermaid PE
Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back SE
Rock and Rule 2-Disc SE
Mulan SE (from my UD secret santa! Thanks Disney Lover!!!)

Other Items:
Disney Scene It?
Sony Headphones
and then Food gift cards so this poor college kid can go out and eat sometimes!

One more thing I remembered. I got one new Hallmark ornament as a gift also (Well, new to me): Batman on The Batcycle. It's a pretty cool one. I usually get a ton of Hallmark ornaments, which I collect ravenously, because my mom gets them in the after Christmas sales and gives them to me the following year, ha. However, she likes to wait for 75 percent off, some I'm pretty lucky if I get one of the REALLY cool ones. Still, I've got a nice collection of Disney and Star Wars ones, and misc. other pop-culture characters. This year though, just the Batcycle. Though, I think I got a couple of other ones from "2005" myself at the after Christmas sales last year. Really hope to get that one of Mickey and Minnie watching the Wonderful World of Disney someday! And the Mickey Mouse Club one.

brotherbear wrote: and at Target, we found a ton of DVD's that were kind of bad/unknown movies and shorts for (get this) 50 cents. AND to top that off, we found SEVERAL DVD's that had 10 classic cartoon shorts on them (many very old, and black/white), including Woody Woodpecker, Casper, Betty Boop, Oswald Rabbit (no, not a typo), Felix the cat, Popeye, Krazy Kat, and others! Each DVD had 10 shorts, each with varying ages (black and white as well as color) as well as different "stars". Each being only $.50!!! So, naturally my mom and I picked up three different ones entitled: "Pee Wee Cartoons", "Comic-Strip Favorites", and "Cartoon Superstars." (I believe there were one or two others, but my mom put her foot down at 3). Oh, and in case you're interested, they're manufactured by "PC Treasures Inc." Does anyone else know about these DVD's or own them!? A large majority of them aren't restored at all, and have a lot of artifacts and such, but seriously who can complain for only 50 cents?!

I saw those at 50 cents and probably should have picked up a couple. It adds up though, ha, when you're on as tight a budget as I am. But I wish I'd waited to get the Long John Silver DVD. I paid full price a month ago! Ha. One dollar! One year, they had a lot of old, public domain horror films that went down to a quarter! Actually, these might too, if you go in on the right day!

This year, I got...

George Forman Grill
The Simpsons 2007 Fun Calendar
HMV Gift Cards (£35 worth of money altogether, £20 of which already bought me some speakers for the computer)
Blutooth Adapting Thing(can't remember the name of what it is currently, but essentially, it gets things off a mobile phone on to a computer via Bluetooth)
The Automatic - Not Accepted Anywhere (CD)
The Killers - Sam's Town (CD)
Jack Johnson - In Between Dreams (CD)
The Appartment DVD
One Two Three DVD
Various Clothes
Various Chocolate Goodies
Money (which will go to good use, I hope )

I like your new Kermit avatar Wonderlicious!! It's hilarious!!

Cherry Desk
Pilates Exercise Equipment
DuckTales - Season 1
Avatar: The Last Airbender - Season 1
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The End (Book)
Howl’s Moving Castle (Book)
Lord of the Flies (Book)
South Park - Seasons 7 and 8
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
Samurai 7 - Complete Set
Black/Chrome Watch
Several Coats

Yes, I'm overly satisfied. And my birthday's in 3 days.

(P.S. some of those things were for the whole family)

I got a lot of wonderful gifts including the following: clothes, a coca-cola vending machine, a new ipod, movies, and my class ring.

dvds
step up
its a wonderful life
robin hood most wanted edition
PTOC 2 dead mans chest

other
dooney and bourke purse
portable dvd player
jewelry box
a watch
a charm for my necklace
clothes
makeup

Re-Animator (1985) - yep, the out of print 2-Disc Millennium Edition. I got it at FYE, for $12.99! This thing is incredibly out of print and goes for $40 now at Amazon.com!

and:
High Tension (2003): Unrated Widescreen version

My mom's friend came over last night and she got me (And my mom, dad, and sister):

$20 Movie gift card
Trail Mix
Peanut Brittle

So, being that it's not the New Year yet, anything that my parents buy me (up until then) is still considered in their eyes as Christmas presents, I also got...

This "Snow Glow" body glitter stuff from Bath and Body Works
The CD for Fantasia (FINALLY!!)
Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest 2-Disk CE (Ok, so my parent's didn't actually buy it for me, but the thing is they ALLOWED me to buy it, which was a big deal...considering they wanted me to wait until its on sale next year for like $10...which I dont think will happen with the 2-Disk version, and just pay the $20 for it).

And I think that sums up my Christmas gifts. That is, until next year....

-BB

Like last year I got WAY too much or at lest more than I deserve but these are the things I got for Christmas all the way over to yesterday.

Christmas/ late Christmas/ Boxing week Gift list
-Regift Responsibly Target Tee (right size this time )
-Yamaha Complete Acoustic Guitar Kit (with DVD, picks, case, strap, tuner, ect.)
-nestle Turtles
-scratch tickets (worth five bucks)
-Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest - 2-Disc Special Edition
-Friends: The Complete 3rd Season
-Walt Disney Treasures: More Silly Symphonies
-Walt Disney Treasures: The Complete Pluto, Volume Two
-Walt Disney Treasures: Your Host, Walt Disney
-Walt Disney Treasures: The Hardy Boys, The Mickey Mouse Club
-Dane Cook: Vicious Circle
-Seinfeld - Season 4
-Nuncrackers DVD (From disneyfella, Aaron Willcott)
-iMode Clock Radio with Docking Station for iPod
-The Red Green Show: Possum Log Stacker Game
-Scrabble: Game Folio Edition
- Something Like This... The Bob Newhart Anthology CD (From disneyfella, Aaron Willcott)
-20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Bill Cosby CD
-Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Miniatures tube
-Sports Illustrated 2007 day to day swimsuit calendar
-Peanuts 2007 Day-to-Day Calendar
-It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to consider book
-Garfield’s Word Seeks: January 2007
-Samsung Digimax S600 6.0 MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom
-AXE Dry Antiperspirant: Phoenix
-AXE Shower Gel: Phoenix
-Candy Canes (regular & flavored)
-Chocolates
-Jelly Belly Sours
-Lots of Boxers
-Elf Slippers (with music chip)
-Grinchy Claus: Hallmark ornament
-Hathaway Leather Gloves
-Gray & Black Tommy Hilfiger Socks
-Hubba Bubba Gum Book
-Tales Of The Mouse: Return Of The Fog! Disney Store Mug
-Cheetos Flamin’ Hot Crunchy snacks
-Red Silly Putty
- Cars: Lightning McQueen, Sally, & Mater Pez Dispensers
-Movies To Check Out: A Do-It Yourself Movie Guide Book
- Jalapeño Cheese: Flavor-Blasted Goldfish crackers
-$5 Mcdonald’s Gift Certificats
-$25 Best Buy Gift Card
-$50
-$20
-$100
-$30
-$12
-Cineplex Theater gift certifiate (worth 2 admissions, 2 regular soft drinks, & 1 regular popcorn)
-Quiksilver Cap
-West 49 Brown Billed Skater Bennie
-Kodiak Black Billed Skater Bennie
-Mickey Mouse ‘Happy New Year! 2007” Disney Store Pin
-Gray Tee
-Brown Tee
-Kodiak Gray Socks
-Brown Roots Outdoors Tee
-Dark Gray (with dark Blue letters) Roots Athletics Tee
-Black Long sleeve Tommy Hilfiger Tee
-West 49 Brown & Gray striped Sweater
-Bluenotes Brown & Blue Striped sweater
-Mexx Black Sweater (with Gray around the neck hole & cuffs)
-Bluenotes Black sweater
-Bluenotes Brown & -um- less Brown sweater
-Bluenotes Gray & less gray sweater
-Mexx Jeans
-Bluenotes New Dylan Jeans
-Bulenotes Dylan Jeans



Boxing week Purchases
-Hannah Montana: Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree Single on iTunes
-A Christmas to Remember: The Polar Express Hallmark 2 ornament set
-Winter Fun With Snoopy Miniature Hallmark ornament
- Miracle on 34th Street Making Of Book
-Wicked Souvenir Program
-Wicked Soundtrack CD
-High School Musical Soundtrack (one disc as the two is not available in Canada)
-The Muppets: A Green & Red Christmas CD
- Western Digital WDG1U2500 My Book Essential Edition 250 GB Hard Drive (ok well the first one did not work so today we got a new one and I hope it works).
- Luigi’s Casa Della Tires Disney Store Pin
- Mickey, Donald, Minnie, & Pluto hoilday four-miniture Disney Store Pin Set
- American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile – Unrated
- Bah, Humduck!: A Looney Tunes Christmas
- Bruce Almighty
- Disney Channel Holiday
- Hoodwinked
- Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
- Miss Congeniality - Deluxe Edition (Sans slipcover)
- The Munsters - The Complete 1st Season
- Popeye's Voyage: The Quest for Pappy
- Project: ALF
- Sesame Street Presents Follow That Bird
- Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby - Unrated and Uncut
- Tom and Jerry: Spotlight Collection - The Premiere Volume
- Tom and Jerry: Spotlight Collection, Vol. 2
- The Whole Ten Yards

(I may have forgotten something so I shall add on if I find I did in fact do so.)

For Christmas I got some really great things including:

DVDs:
WDT: Mickey Mouse in Living Color Volume 1
WDT: Silly Symphonies Volume 1
How the Grinch Stole Christmas 50th Anniversary Edition
My Little Pony: The Movie

CDs:
Musical History of Disneyland with the Limited Ed. GOLD record
Junior Senior import

Other:
Disney Scene It? Deluxe Edition
A hand-made knit plush of Mickey Mouse (my mom made it and it looks amazing)
Disney Shirts
The Art of Walt Disney from Mickey Mouse to the Magic Kingdom book

A bunch of other giftcards (for restaurants for me and my boyfriend) and cool stuff, which I don't want to bore you anymore with.

Overall I am VERY thankful for all the though put into my gifts