I did post this first thing in the other thread, but a few weeks before Christmas I spoiled myself and picked up a new acer g-sync 27" gaming monitor for my gaming rig, along with a corsair gaming keyboard (full rgb keys, all programmable, cherry switches, etc.. not bad). Oh, and a new Samsung 850 pro ssd to replace my first gen ssd drive that was always out of room. Gaming computer is up to date again, even if I am only playing games that you can play on a $300 laptop.. lol.
Then my folks followed the tradition started last year (mostly in effort to avoid as much death tax as possible) and gifted each of us "kids" a healthy amount of cash. Mostly I will use it for my middle daughter who is starting college in the Fall, but yesterday I bought a new gun safe at Cabela's.. 605 lbs of awesomeness. Makes me want to buy a few more guns now that I have more room to store them safely... and now I can have ammo around the house for the guns I didn't have secured. Gonna get it delivered and hauled down stairs next week..
Actually though, as good of a year as it has been for me, the best Christmas gift I got was to have all my kids with me the whole time. On top of this, my girlfriend's son texted on the 20th and said he would be home for Christmas, and ended up here the next day. What a great surprise. He hasn't been home since he was assigned to Ft. Hood over a year ago, and she had really been missing him.
I took the few days between each holiday off so I got nearly 2 weeks off work in a row, and plan to finish the final editing of my book and get it up on Amazon. Keep getting distracted by other lazy things to do though, lol! Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas!