Well, I had worked out a sweet post about my Christmas loot, but epiphany crashed when I tried to look up a link on timex.com. So instead, I’ll make it much shorter as I don’t have the patience to retype the whole thing now.

The in-laws gave me a Timex Bodylink watch. This thing makes training more enjoyable. Now I can run anywhere and let my watch do the coaching automatically for me. In fact, when I took it out for a test spin today, I just started running and didn’t really concern myself with where I was going or how far I’d gone. I didn’t even make a point to remember street names because I figured at the 2 mile mark, after my AIs, I’d just run in the opposite direction for a while and it’d all work out. This is without a doubt one of the coolest gifts I’ve ever been given. It is a little strange reading the time from the top of my wrist now; I’ve been using an OVA watch for about a year and I became accustomed to reading it from the side of my wrist.

I also made away with seasons 2 and 3 of Monk and volume 1 of Futurama. I was also given some Nike running pants which turned out to basically be tights. I’ll be taking those back for something with a little more room. I was given both CastleVania games on the PS2 and FF3 on the DS. I got some Eddie Bauer clothes and a Life In Hell book from sunshine as well.

All in all, I made out pretty well. I think I also gave sunshine one of the better gifts I’ve given as well: a Brighton wallet. It was a total surprise. In fact, she said that she would not have suggested it and was very happy because of the quality and the taste was an exact match for her personality. Score!