2015年12月28日
Christmas Gifts
Hello, all!
Friday was Christmas, so I Skyped my family in the evening. It was Christmas morning in Minnesota. We got to open our presents together! I gave my sister a daruma otoshi set. Actually, it wasn't a daruma—I bought her one shaped like a mouse. I guess it was a nezumi otoshi! My father got a 3-dimensional beer puzzle, because he likes beer. My mother got two presents. My mother's birthday is on December 23rd! For her birthday, I gave her a set of three silly earrings. For Christmas, I gave her a gift to share with my grandmother: a jigsaw puzzle.
It's from the old Nippon Animation version of Anne of Green Gables. It's almost all yellow, and it's 1,000 pieces. I hope it's hard enough!
My family knows me very well. They got me nothing but books!
The two comic books in the upper-right are from my sister. She gives me two volumes of Transmetropolitan every time it's my birthday or Christmas. Someday I will have the whole series! She always forgets which volumes she's already given me, though. I think I have four copies of volume 6.
Rules for a Knight is a little "life advice" book by Ethan Hawke, and Rising Son is about a father and son bicycling the entire length of Japan. I want to do that, too! I was very surprised that my father bought me Kamishibai Man, because I've just been reading about kamishibai. The book is very simple, but very moving!
Finally, the silver snowflake tin has an Amazon gift card, so I can buy more books. What a great "Christmas haul!"
Did you give or get any Christmas gifts?
—Matthew
Friday was Christmas, so I Skyped my family in the evening. It was Christmas morning in Minnesota. We got to open our presents together! I gave my sister a daruma otoshi set. Actually, it wasn't a daruma—I bought her one shaped like a mouse. I guess it was a nezumi otoshi! My father got a 3-dimensional beer puzzle, because he likes beer. My mother got two presents. My mother's birthday is on December 23rd! For her birthday, I gave her a set of three silly earrings. For Christmas, I gave her a gift to share with my grandmother: a jigsaw puzzle.
It's from the old Nippon Animation version of Anne of Green Gables. It's almost all yellow, and it's 1,000 pieces. I hope it's hard enough!
My family knows me very well. They got me nothing but books!
The two comic books in the upper-right are from my sister. She gives me two volumes of Transmetropolitan every time it's my birthday or Christmas. Someday I will have the whole series! She always forgets which volumes she's already given me, though. I think I have four copies of volume 6.
Rules for a Knight is a little "life advice" book by Ethan Hawke, and Rising Son is about a father and son bicycling the entire length of Japan. I want to do that, too! I was very surprised that my father bought me Kamishibai Man, because I've just been reading about kamishibai. The book is very simple, but very moving!
Finally, the silver snowflake tin has an Amazon gift card, so I can buy more books. What a great "Christmas haul!"
Did you give or get any Christmas gifts?
—Matthew
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