Christmas Stuff.
 

So! What did everybody get for Christmas? I want to hear all about it.
I got a $500 dollar cheque (Whoo-Hoo), a nicely framed Bobby Orr picture (The Goal), and the usual candy, chocolate, socks and other stocking stuffers.

Hmmmmmmmm i got nothing I was rotten this year.:sad:

We got a new car.

Relief. Lots of stress relief lol. We owe $30, 000 for our share of our condos leaky roof repair bill and my father gave us the money to cover the whole cost.

Oh and I got socks :mrgreen:

WOW Socks! Wholly crap!

Sweet! What kind? Ferrari?

Awwww! Poor Mikey!

No just a BMW!

I got a wii, wii fit and a bunch of games for it. I also got The Perfect Brownie Pan and Bob Goemans fish health handbook and bunch of other fun stuffs :biggrin:

Did you jump around over-enthusiastically like the lady in the commercial? :lol:

Of course :lol:

sun light supply t5,s for this fella.
blue ray player.

That was my reaction! They were from my moms dog so it IS kinda impressive. :lol:

I would be excited about the money if I could actually spend it on an aquarium! But it has to go to fixing our POS, overpriced condo building that wasn't built right in the first place, yet was sold as "luxury" suites. :cry:

That's amazing that your parents were able to help you out, but it really sucks that they had to in the first place. Condo's are supposed to have reserve funds (you can ask to see how much is in the reserve fund before you buy) for when things break down on them, so the condo owners don't end up with huge surprise bills.

For Christmas I got a 32 inch flat screen LCD samsung TV, money, movies, gift cards, some games "Star trek scene it" "Fact or Crap", a sweater, socks and a Blue World gift card :biggrin:

4 lift tickets to lake louis, 80 hand warmers (lol they actually come handy, esspecially on the bike), calender, new shaving kit. I think my parents are going to pay for this semester of school, they were were kind of hinting it which is sweet.

HAHA I got the Wii fit too, and the deer hunting game. Also got the Blue Planet DVD set as well as The Planet Earth Series. Also got a DVD set with 30 Spagetti Westerns. As well as the usual clothing items.

$600.00 Cash
$500.00 Safeway gift card
$300.00 Gas gift cards
$40.00 City of Calgary Golf GC
New 48 inch frag tank with light, stand and plumping
New Camera (Nothing special)
IQ Air whole home HEPA filter
Clothes (Gloves, socks, shirts...)
Stocking Stuffers
Couple of deep water acro colonies
...
God I love my Family.

Yes is really sucks. There is a reserve and I did see if before we moved in. Had an inspection, ect. All was good but what they couldn't check was the roof properly. Just checked for cosmetic stuff and checked the building plans. Well, if the roof had been made properly, all would be fine but the company who did the roof messed up the membrane and just poured the concrete right over it...must have known they had messed up :neutral: Didn't care I guess.

So the reserve doesn't cover barely any of the $2.5 million repair that will take 8 months next year. They have to rip up all the concrete, replace the membrane and then re-pour new concrete. They are having to do the common roof top courtyard too, so have to take all the trees, plants, BBQ's, benches, ect. off that level and then replace them after.

Our building is not a typical building. It was all about architecture and obviously the designer didn't have stuff like repairs in mind.

Here is a pic to give you an idea. Not just a flat roof. Many levels.

http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r...12exterior.jpg

But anyways, not what this thread is about. My dad offered the help a few months back with the payment but we declined. Then he gave it as a christmas gift yesterday and said it would be rude to turn it down lol. Clever. The relief of not having to come up with $30k by next spring is certainly the best gift I got this year!

I got a KitchenAid mixer, heated blanket, PJ's & slippers, fleece sheet set annnnnnd a little bit of snow....................a snowflake clownfish that is :mrgreen::Banane44:
http://i611.photobucket.com/albums/t...x/DSC_0055.jpg

I got a few things but the best was spending a day with my favorite aunt. i don't get to see her often and she was diagnosed with ALS about 4 months ago just after to her 50th birthday. It is progressing way to fast and the winter is very hard for her, so she and her husband are moving to mexico in a couple weeks, not sure when or if I will ever see her again so it was a Christmas that will be remembered, amazing gift .

where in the heck did ya get him from love it

Ken at Blue World Aquatics in Edmonton brought him in for me:biggrin:.

i hear those snowflakes are exp$$?
as for Christmas i got a dive trip to sunshine coast in april !
for Christmas to my self im going to 2000 ft in a sub of roatan island in the honduras and diving in belize too. weeee 9 more days till take off!!!!

ooh i forgot i got a subscription to coral magazine! cant wait for my first issue..too bad i wont see it till i get back in march..lol darn my life is so hard

Wow! That sub ride should be awesome.
Where on the Sunshine Coast is the dive trip?

does it count if I got it myself on Boxing Day? If so a Harmony One remote, should have gotten one years ago, this thing is great.

Next Christmas planning to be on my beach (amusing myself without the remote).

dive trip is in Egmont.i hear its great.never done cold water dive before.sad as i lived in cairns for a year and went to great barrier all the time and many other places around the world but still have yet to dive in my own back yard. lol