Of presents and other stuff

[ganimede]

Well, that's the Christmas/Chanuka celebrations over and done with for another year. My best presents were a laptop chill mat from my mother and a vanishing TARDIS mug from my sister. The chill mat is brilliant. It has two fans so it plugs into a USB port and that helps disperse the heat from the laptop. I hoped that the fans wouldn't be too

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[ftmichael]

Ooo, those are nice presents! The chill mat sounds amazing. (Cos it's so quiet. See what I did there?) And yay for the TARDIS mug!

Folding headphones do sound like they'd be quite useful, both for ease of travel and for drowning out annoying peoples. That's a shame that it's been so hard to find good ones. The reviews on Amazon for the Skullcandy headphones seem quite good in terms of sound quality but there are several complaints about durability, so if you get those you might have to be extra careful with them. :-/

Yay also for all the art supplies! Feh to having to pay £3 for such a tiny bottle of ink though. But hopefully it'll be fun to have a go at pen and ink drawing. :) Triple feh to still having homework left to do. That's so annoying. Is there much of it?

I'm sorry my present is getting there late. :( I hope it arrives soon!

[ganimede]

The chill mat had been mentioned because I got a catalogue through the post from some website called presentsforboys.com or something like that and there was one in there. That was just a heat-absorbing fabric mat though, so I was surprised by this one which has the fans. And the fact that it's sloped does make it easier to use on my lap. I have it on my lap now actually and it's much better than the times I'd tried to have it like that previously. And not just because it's not roasting my legs.

The reviews on the Argos site were about the same, saying they were really good sound quality but with mixed reviews about the durability. I'd take care of them anyway because I know it's really easy to break the leads.

There's too much homework left to do because there's still any left to do!

There's been no sign of your present so far and there won't be any delivery now till Tuesday :(

[ftmichael]

Presents for Boys sounds like they would have loads of fun stuffs. The one you got does sound better with having fans (plural!) and being sloped. I'm so glad you got that cos I know you'd needed something like that for ages.

You make a v good point about the homework! Will you get to have any proper days off or are you going to have to keep working on it right up until classes start again?

Oh no. :( I hope it arrives on Tuesday! I wish I'd sent it earlier but I hope it's just delayed and not lost. I s'pose it'll be a sort of bonus extended-Chanuka thing. 'Just when you thought Chanuka was well and truly over ... *present!*'

[ganimede]

The one with fans (plural!) is better than the one on that website. My mother said she wasn't sure about ordering from it because she'd never heard of it before which is why she went to Argos. I'm happy with it anyway, I can tell it makes a huge difference already so it will be amazing in the summer. If When we get one.

I spent the first full week of my holiday doing homework, so that's from December 19 to 23. And then I had a nice long break! I didn't have much left to do after that so it just took me one day to finish it off. I worked on it all day Monday and then printed it out yesterday. I got the last bits done in class this afternoon, as that was just sticking it in my sketchbook and writing up the evaluation.

There is still no sign of the present :-/

[ftmichael]

hehe Yus, if when summer comes it'll be all the more impressive than it is now! The fact that it's so amazing in January bodes v well for summer, I think. I can understand being a bit wary of ordering from a place you've never heard of and I'm glad it worked out that the Argos one was better anyway. :)

Feh to having to do homework for half the holiday, but YAY for having the other half free! Was it v nice and refreshing?

I'm starting to get nervous that the present got lost. :-/ I hope it comes soon! *keeps fingers tightly crossed*

[ganimede]

I don't think it was as refreshing as it could have been because even when I had that week in the middle where I didn't do any homework, I was conscious that I still had to finish it off.

The parcel arrived at 10am this morning. No one was in and it was too big to fit through the letterbox so it got returned to the depot. I'll have to go and pick it up tomorrow morning.

[ftmichael]

Yeah, that definitely makes holidays much less nice than they'd otherwise be. It's hard to fully relax with work hanging over your head. :-/ Feh.

Oh good, I'm so relieved that it arrived and didn't get lost! Peez poke me on cam when you're going to open it? I'd love to watch if that works for you. Watching you open it is the best part for me too. :) I'm around all day except for karate from 4-5 your time.