{"id":233,"date":"2008-12-30T07:00:47","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T11:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/?p=233"},"modified":"2009-07-27T21:33:49","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T01:33:49","slug":"christmas-at-the-irredeemable-household","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/30\/christmas-at-the-irredeemable-household\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas at the Irredeemable Household"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">All in all, it was a good Christmas.\u00a0 The kids woke up to a nice haul on Christmas morning and everyone seemed to enjoy the day.\u00a0 We also visited with some in-laws that came by, and that seemed to go well.\u00a0 On the whole, it was an enjoyable day with less stress than expected.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I got lots of various gifts (clothes, pajamas, tools, etc).\u00a0 In the geek gift department I did pretty good.\u00a0 As I&#8217;ve mentioned before, I got myself a <a title=\"New Netbook for Christmas\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/2008\/12\/16\/laptop-troubles-while-on-vacation\/\">new Netbook for Christmas<\/a>. My wife got me the new <em>Dark Knight<\/em> DVD, as well as a USB handheld massager.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t wait to try out the massager!\u00a0 My step-son got me Iron Man and Thor toys from the <a title=\"Marvel Super-Hero Squad\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hasbro.com\/marvel\/default.cfm?page=Products\/SuperheroSquad\">Marvel Super-Hero Squad line<\/a>.\u00a0 Really cute toys.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/x-mas2008a.jpg\" alt=\"Batman DVD, Marvel Heroes, and USB Massager\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My good friend Ed got me the Doctor Who t-shirt below for Christmas.\u00a0 It&#8217;s freakin&#8217; awesome!\u00a0 Even my wife completely understood the statement the moment she read it.\u00a0 It&#8217;s really true!\u00a0 When you become a fan of the show, you become somewhat attached to the lead actor.\u00a0 When they leave the show and are replaced, most people have a really hard time adjusting to the new actor.\u00a0 I know I had a really hard time adjusting from Tom Baker to Peter Davison.\u00a0 Unfortunately, I can guarantee I&#8217;ll have a hard time adjusting from David Tennant to anyone else.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not looking forward to that.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/x-mas2008b.jpg\" alt=\"Doctor Who - You Never Forget Your First Doctor\" width=\"355\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Oh yeah, I got Moes and Firehouse gift cards too!\u00a0 Yummy!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I hope you had a fantastically geeky holiday too!<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Tell the world about ONCE UPON A GEEK:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a 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