Grazing Rites

I’ve reformatted things a bit for this holiday season, hopefully this will be more helpful as a result. Instead of separating by price I decided to split things up by my likely reaction and then tried to priority within the category. DVDs are alphabetic however for easier reference.

“You Are Officially My Favourite Person Of The Year/Decade”

5-8 days of Consecutive Babysitting (preferably September-February, any year)

Tickets to Obama’s Inauguration

Trip on Virgin Galactic

 

“Holy *expletive deleted*!!! How did you pull this off?”

LCD HDTV (at least 26’’)

Trip to…just about anywhere

Blu-Ray Player / PS3

HD Camcorder

Laptop

GPS

Canucks Tickets

 

“Freaking sweet, I can’t wait to use this!”

Rock Band 2 (Wii)

Red Steel (Wii)

Super Smash Bros Brawl (Wii)

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (Wii)

1 TB+ SATA Internal Hard Drive

Rockport Dress Shoes (size 8 Wide)

            Recommendation: The simpler the better

 

“I needed this” / “I never would have bought this for myself”

Sony Rechargeable AA Batteries

Slim camera case for Sony Cybershot

Fancy Mouse (USB wired)

            Recommended brand: Microsoft

Fancy Earbuds (with volume control)

Dress Pants (size 32×30 - no pleats, cuffs, or blue please)

            Recommended brands: Dockers Premium, Ralph Lauren, Claiborne

Long Sleeve Casual Shirt (no chest stripes please)

Short Sleeve Dress Shirt (size 15 - no button down collars please)

Khakis (size 32×30 - no pleats, cuffs, or blue please)

            Recommended brands: Dockers, Nautica

Playhouse Tickets

Black Dress Socks

Recommended brands: Gold Toe, Macgregor

Wii Points

Pet Shop Boys – PopArt CDs

Luggage

Fancy Keyboard (USB wired)

            Recommended brand: Microsoft

Jockey Briefs (medium)

Wii Classic Controller

WiiPlay

Wii Remote

Fancy Electric Razor (flat head, NOT 3-round-head kind)

            Recommended brand: Braun

It Couldn’t Happen Here (The Pet Shop Boys Film, 1988)

TheatreSports Tickets

3M Earplugs

Blank CDs

 

Fancy: Already have something that does the job but a higher-end model would be better.

 

Don’t forget Gift Receipts, just in case J

 

DVDs

24 (Season 6)

24: Redemption

Blue Harvest

Doctor Who (2005 and after - region 1)

Hustle (TV series)

NewsRadio

Sarah Jane Adventures

Sex & The City (Seasons 4 and 6 Part Two)

Star Trek: The Animated Series

Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip

The Big Bang Theory

The West Wing

Torchwood

 

Please Do NOT Buy

 

Dress Shirts (I have quite a few and frankly I enjoy shopping for them myself)

Fragrance (have lots)

Full screen DVDs (except TV shows of course)

Golf Shirts (I recently stocked up)

Jeans

Star Trek Books (have them all)

Ties (don’t wear them, have tons)

T-Shirts (have more than I can store)

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