They can of course, do as they like, but I'm doing gifts.
As for mom's pawned stuff, with the exception of two things (one of which, I believe is just scrap gold that they should have let go months ago but Mom won't at this point because she's already paid what it's worth back in interest, so it would just be silly to let it go now, her words not mine, and dad's saxophone) everything is in her name. They'll take a payment without her present (though they won't give you a receipt for it, which sucks), but they won't let someone who isn't her take it out. So she would have to be with you. I'm not sure how much any of her stuff would cost to get out at this point. I could try to check that out for you.
Do you have a list? I'm trying to keep my costs down fairly low, but not like $5 or anything. As she's all, NO GIFTS, I'm figuring I'll buy mom a by now, fairly traditional flock of ducks from Heifer. I'll donate on the Worldbuilder's page and maybe her gift will turn into a nice new book for me. I've got no idea what I'm doing for Dad. No movies that I know of coming out around Christmas that are good for him, but I'll think of something.
I'm going to give myself a, "Thank God Tax Season is Over," gift of going to see the Avengers when it comes out though. I'll probably see it twice, once with Dad and once with you, if you're interested because Dad is annoying to go to movies with.
I've been looking forward to the 20th anniversary edition of Timothy Zahn's Heir to the Empire since I heard about it. There are a lot of Star Wars books I'd be perfectly happy to e-book someday, or even just get from the library, but this is one of my favorite trilogies, and the anniversary edition has annotations and whatnot, so I think I must have it. I hope they do special releases for the other two in the series...
I've got a ThinkGeek wishlist, and apparently it's really easy to search by name. I'm also down with giftcards. Wii and Xbox points are probably ones that I would love and use on fun things if I had them, but probably wouldn't buy on my own. Ditto iTunes. But Walmart/Target and the like would be good, too.
I would love to go see The Avengers with you! :) I'm trying to get myself excited for the Sherlock Holmes sequel, but am not having much luck (and I don't really know why, unless it really IS the hair...). I'm more excited for Men In Black 3, which apparently has 80 percent less Tommy Lee Jones, so that's saying something about my level of Holmes excitement. I think I'm more excited for "Mission Impossible: Any More 'I's Would Be Ridiculous" (which I think someone said isn't coming to Hutch, wtf?).
Went to the mall yesterday as part of our massive (It's Dad's payday and PerCap day, must spend money) day. We're not even finished yet, because by the time we made it to Hy-Vee, I was too exhausted to do much, so we have to go back to buy human food today, and I also think we're going to make a run at Target today.
Have some gift ideas for Mom, but nothing terribly special. She saw some fuzzy slipper sock types of things that she likes, there are some smallish Fossil accessories she liked quite a bit (including a key ring, some wallet type things, and some coin purses), there were some neat jewelry pieces with semi-precious stones and odd things like jasper that she likes quite a bit, and another thing that could be good for her is gift cards to places where she can buy clothes (like Dillards, Macys, Lane Bryant, CJ Banks, that kind of stuff, because I'm pretty sure she's going to work at least part of the season at Liberty and she needs clothes for that.
I shall check out your wishlist, and other things you mentioned.
I still don't know what to get Dad, but I'll think of something. Of course, Mom & Dad's Christmas gift might end up being some repairs on Mom's car. She ran off into a hole and probably needs an alignment, and she's got some other issue with it not wanting to start. Also have to get the dogs in for their shots, and mom wants me to get Gracie fixed out of per cap (but I'm thinking I can probably put that off until I'm working full-time hours, because really, she doesn't go outside. There are no male cats inside, much less any male cats that haven't been fixed. The chances of her getting pregnant would pretty much rely on her escaping the house (which she doesn't seem interested in) during the very small amount of time that a cat is fertile, and finding a boy cat before we manage to retrieve her. I'm just not that worried.
I'm finding it difficult to get excited over any of the movies coming out soon. I can't decide if that's because they don't look that good, or if it's because my brain has set it's sights on The Avengers and doesn't care about anything else. I am so far pleased with the previews and stuff that I've seen.
Went looking to see what other Marvel movies they've got coming up. Looks like there's going to be a second Wolverine movie, a movie for Deadpool, some of the preliminary work has been done on an X-Men origins movie for Cyclops, but the script is apparently not final yet, and there's some debate over whether they're going to try to use that movie (which will certainly feature Jean Grey a lot as well, because they are attached at the hip) to make First Class and X-3 continuity mesh (Not sure how that will go, Erik comes back for awhile before leaving again, I don't know), set it in the First Class universe and basically consider First Class a franchise reboot (though Wolverine fits in just fine), or just make it work with the other X-men movies.
I also hear there's another Spiderman reboot coming. Iron Man III has apparently started filming, and they're working on scripts for a sequel to The Avengers. There's also some buzz that they may be looking for a script for one of the X-Men spin-offs like X-Factor.
Marvel fans will almost certainly continue to bitch about the ways these don't match comic canon (though that begs the question of which canon, considering Marvel makes canon AUs every other year or so), but I'm excited for pretty much everything except maybe the Spiderman reboot. I'm interested in whether or not they'll introduce Cable in the Deadpool movie, mostly because down that road lies the only long-term canon gay relationship in the Marvel universe, and I'm intersted in seeing whether or not they'll go there in the movies where they're figuring their target audience is young men. Funnily enough, both Cable and Deadpool have had had female love interests as well. On the other hand, Northstar (who is a member of the Canadian X-Men counterparts) is gay, but is rarely shown in any kind of relationship, (though he flirts with Bobby all the time). Anyway, that went on longer than I intended.
How did mom manage to drive into a hole? Anyway, I guess for her, I'll probably go the department store giftcard, to help with clothes for work. Now I just have to pick the one that is the most likely to have stuff she'll like in sizes that fit.
I got dad a "grow your own coffee!" kit. Apparently it takes forever to get actual beans good for coffee-making, but in the meantime the plant itself is really pretty.
I think I heard that either the Deadpool or the Wolverine movie (or both, idk) were going to completely disregard the first Wolverine movie. Seriously, not since Hulk have I scene a studio so quick to say "Wow, we screwed that up.Do-over!" Well, I guess there's also the First Class, rumor, which is that it essentially considers itself part of the movie!canon through X2 only, and is also disregarding not only Wolverine but also X3.
I love Marvel, but this stuff with the films, is pretty much how they run their comics too, which is exactly why I cry foul at all the people bitching about continuity and canon. Marvel is a multiverse, and while there is a kind of main canon (officially Earth-616 designated such by some aliens that can move between dimensions), there are also a ton of canon AUs including worlds where most people are mutants and it's the regular old humans who are in the minority, and ones where Erik runs the school because Charles is dead (one of my favorite canon AUs. Erik is married to Rogue in it), and the one where it's Toni Stark not Tony Stark, and she ends up marrying Steve Rogers. All sorts of fun crack in the Marvel AUs and that doesn't get into the vast runs that are more or less erased because some powerful mind wiped out and/or changed the memories of pretty much everyone on the planet. For instance in recent Avengers canon, Spiderman was an avenger. He announced his identity to the world, married Mary Jane, and then left Shield to join up with a bunch of the other Avengers (Captain America, Thor, sometimes Wolverine, Luke Cage, and a few others). Then there was some hand-wavey, mind-wiping stuff that went on, and all of a sudden, nobody knows that Peter Parker is Spiderman and he's no longer married to Mary Jane, all in the same continuity. So yeah, the movies stuff is kind of crazy, but pretty typical of Marvel.
Oh, and I didn't even get into Ultimate Iron Man which was written by Orson Scott Card and was supposed to fit in with a bunch of other "Ultimate," whatever comics. It doesn't, at all, nor does it in any way conform to previous Iron Man canon. Among other things, Card apparently had some burning desire for Tony Stark to be blue, literally, blue. I don't know. That one went a little too far off the reservation even for me.
As for mom's pawned stuff, with the exception of two things (one of which, I believe is just scrap gold that they should have let go months ago but Mom won't at this point because she's already paid what it's worth back in interest, so it would just be silly to let it go now, her words not mine, and dad's saxophone) everything is in her name. They'll take a payment without her present (though they won't give you a receipt for it, which sucks), but they won't let someone who isn't her take it out. So she would have to be with you. I'm not sure how much any of her stuff would cost to get out at this point. I could try to check that out for you.
Do you have a list? I'm trying to keep my costs down fairly low, but not like $5 or anything. As she's all, NO GIFTS, I'm figuring I'll buy mom a by now, fairly traditional flock of ducks from Heifer. I'll donate on the Worldbuilder's page and maybe her gift will turn into a nice new book for me. I've got no idea what I'm doing for Dad. No movies that I know of coming out around Christmas that are good for him, but I'll think of something.
I'm going to give myself a, "Thank God Tax Season is Over," gift of going to see the Avengers when it comes out though. I'll probably see it twice, once with Dad and once with you, if you're interested because Dad is annoying to go to movies with.
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I've got a ThinkGeek wishlist, and apparently it's really easy to search by name. I'm also down with giftcards. Wii and Xbox points are probably ones that I would love and use on fun things if I had them, but probably wouldn't buy on my own. Ditto iTunes. But Walmart/Target and the like would be good, too.
I would love to go see The Avengers with you! :) I'm trying to get myself excited for the Sherlock Holmes sequel, but am not having much luck (and I don't really know why, unless it really IS the hair...). I'm more excited for Men In Black 3, which apparently has 80 percent less Tommy Lee Jones, so that's saying something about my level of Holmes excitement. I think I'm more excited for "Mission Impossible: Any More 'I's Would Be Ridiculous" (which I think someone said isn't coming to Hutch, wtf?).
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Have some gift ideas for Mom, but nothing terribly special. She saw some fuzzy slipper sock types of things that she likes, there are some smallish Fossil accessories she liked quite a bit (including a key ring, some wallet type things, and some coin purses), there were some neat jewelry pieces with semi-precious stones and odd things like jasper that she likes quite a bit, and another thing that could be good for her is gift cards to places where she can buy clothes (like Dillards, Macys, Lane Bryant, CJ Banks, that kind of stuff, because I'm pretty sure she's going to work at least part of the season at Liberty and she needs clothes for that.
I shall check out your wishlist, and other things you mentioned.
I still don't know what to get Dad, but I'll think of something. Of course, Mom & Dad's Christmas gift might end up being some repairs on Mom's car. She ran off into a hole and probably needs an alignment, and she's got some other issue with it not wanting to start. Also have to get the dogs in for their shots, and mom wants me to get Gracie fixed out of per cap (but I'm thinking I can probably put that off until I'm working full-time hours, because really, she doesn't go outside. There are no male cats inside, much less any male cats that haven't been fixed. The chances of her getting pregnant would pretty much rely on her escaping the house (which she doesn't seem interested in) during the very small amount of time that a cat is fertile, and finding a boy cat before we manage to retrieve her. I'm just not that worried.
I'm finding it difficult to get excited over any of the movies coming out soon. I can't decide if that's because they don't look that good, or if it's because my brain has set it's sights on The Avengers and doesn't care about anything else. I am so far pleased with the previews and stuff that I've seen.
Went looking to see what other Marvel movies they've got coming up. Looks like there's going to be a second Wolverine movie, a movie for Deadpool, some of the preliminary work has been done on an X-Men origins movie for Cyclops, but the script is apparently not final yet, and there's some debate over whether they're going to try to use that movie (which will certainly feature Jean Grey a lot as well, because they are attached at the hip) to make First Class and X-3 continuity mesh (Not sure how that will go, Erik comes back for awhile before leaving again, I don't know), set it in the First Class universe and basically consider First Class a franchise reboot (though Wolverine fits in just fine), or just make it work with the other X-men movies.
I also hear there's another Spiderman reboot coming. Iron Man III has apparently started filming, and they're working on scripts for a sequel to The Avengers. There's also some buzz that they may be looking for a script for one of the X-Men spin-offs like X-Factor.
Marvel fans will almost certainly continue to bitch about the ways these don't match comic canon (though that begs the question of which canon, considering Marvel makes canon AUs every other year or so), but I'm excited for pretty much everything except maybe the Spiderman reboot. I'm interested in whether or not they'll introduce Cable in the Deadpool movie, mostly because down that road lies the only long-term canon gay relationship in the Marvel universe, and I'm intersted in seeing whether or not they'll go there in the movies where they're figuring their target audience is young men. Funnily enough, both Cable and Deadpool have had had female love interests as well. On the other hand, Northstar (who is a member of the Canadian X-Men counterparts) is gay, but is rarely shown in any kind of relationship, (though he flirts with Bobby all the time). Anyway, that went on longer than I intended.
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I got dad a "grow your own coffee!" kit. Apparently it takes forever to get actual beans good for coffee-making, but in the meantime the plant itself is really pretty.
I think I heard that either the Deadpool or the Wolverine movie (or both, idk) were going to completely disregard the first Wolverine movie. Seriously, not since Hulk have I scene a studio so quick to say "Wow, we screwed that up.Do-over!" Well, I guess there's also the First Class, rumor, which is that it essentially considers itself part of the movie!canon through X2 only, and is also disregarding not only Wolverine but also X3.
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Oh, and I didn't even get into Ultimate Iron Man which was written by Orson Scott Card and was supposed to fit in with a bunch of other "Ultimate," whatever comics. It doesn't, at all, nor does it in any way conform to previous Iron Man canon. Among other things, Card apparently had some burning desire for Tony Stark to be blue, literally, blue. I don't know. That one went a little too far off the reservation even for me.
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