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Loot

Lauren

Except for a few choice moments, it was yet another disappointing Christmas here. Nonetheless, I made sure that my spawn made out like a bandit.

Every shred of Christmas shopping that didn’t consist of homemade presents was done on eBay. Thank you, thank you, to everyone who contributed to the Feed/Clothe/Provide Xmas For Lauren and Ethan Fund, as it was you folks that ensured we not only paid bills this December, but also had a decent Christmas. I bought every Christmas present at prices so sinfully low that I was able to give Ethan the first decent load of cool gifts since we were part of a two income household.

I think the best part of the day was coming home, setting up his (slightly used) GameCube and playing (a lightly used) Harvest Moon: Another Wonderful Life, and exploring this actually pretty new world that is crazily cute, and bonding over naming our digital cow Moo and our digital dog Kitty.

Roxanne sent a book for E, a complete collection of the Curious George books in hardback, that Ethan read enrapt as though it was the Bible on Easter Sunday. All reader gifts were given to Ethan from Santa, made all the more convincing because it’s obvious that Santa would use the same wrapping paper for each gift, even if this paper looks suspiciously like the stuff used at Amazon.com.

Mostly, it’s a good thing Dr. B slowly convinced me that video gaming is not the devil’s handiwork. It only took three (very resistant) years.

The simple things, man.

13 thoughts on Loot

  5. Yea, Ethan!

    As usual, my family went fucking bananas for Christmas–too many presents, too much food, too much noise and too much of me losing at poker. My family overdoes everything; that’s why I love them. I’m glad to be home, though. Dusty and Molly are extremely glad to be home. They may even start acknowledging me this week.

  6. I’m glad you and Ethan had such a nice Christmas. I bought two big gifts for The Royal Spawn – a $1,000 Certificate of Deposit and a buccal swab kit for The Genographic Project. I bought the buccal swab kits for all of us, and we’re going to do them and mail them to National Geographic after the New Year. The Royal Spawn didn’t really want much, so I bought him his favorite foods.

    Of course, the kitties got gifts – plastic jingly balls. I’m surprised Lucky hasn’t lost them already. He’s been playing with them for two days straight now.

  13. Your son might like the game Pikmin or Pikmin 2, both of which should be under $20 by now, or if you live near a Toys ‘R’ Us $10 for the latter.
    They promote problem solving with minimal (and cartoonish at worst) violence – ant-like aliens occasionally have to gang up on and thwack larger insects, which become fuel in the form of tokens.
    Paper Mario would be a great game when he gets a bit older to understand the more complicated play mechanics as a good introduction to RPGs.

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