Broken Forum Secret Santa 2012!

My Santee, who I am not completely unfamiliar with, is also somewhat enigmatic. If you're someone out there with a wishlist (but didn't necessarily link it,) you may want to consider updating it anyway!

Santa should be advised that sometimes people hide wishlists on their profile page.

I am getting things. So excited I just tinkled a bit.

My shopping (stalking) is good and bad. Good: I have ideas. Bad: My analysis paralysis has set in because, dammit, it has to be perfect!! ;)

I'm with you there Tyjenks. I want my Santee to like what I get them hopefully! I think they will,but one never knows! Need to do more stalking and see other good items!

I have the first part of my Santee's package in hand. Not mailing it until it's all gathered, though.

13 year old Tyler thinks this is funny as does 43 year old Tyler.

Oh, man. I walked right into that one.

Oh I found my santee's wishlists (at least, Steam and Amazon) but they are short and some of the dates are old. :)

I guess I can cross Athryn off my list of potential Santas, then! I don't even have a Steam wishlist!

I think I'm just going to give in and send my Santee a few items from my own wish list...

It's like one of those logic puzzles: "This secret santa's santee does NOT have a steam wishlist but DOES live in the yellow house and DOES NOT have a red car."

God I love those.

If you want to be a real creeper you can always Google Earth the mailing address you were given, zoom in on the photos, print them off, and wrap your Santee's present to resemble their own house.

...hm. Interesting idea!

A real creeper would leave the present on their Santees dining room table wrapped in their underwear.

I had the stuff I wanted to send to my Santee in a shopping cart ready to go, found a great sale. However I couldn't figure out how to fill out their online form to send it to a different address than the billing address. I emailed for some help but when I got their response the next day they were sold out of the stuff I was going to get. *sigh*

I think I've settled on the purchasable gift part... now all that remains is the crafting...

I had Bill D as my Santee one year and was hoping I would be visiting family in Vegas that Christmas. I wouldn't do that to someone that I've never met in person before plus BD is, like, a fellow dude so it wasn't that creepy. But it would have made a damn fine story anyway.

I have a package! Investigated by the Mrs as I'm not expecting anything right now. I am reliably informed that the sender is from Switzerland so I'm going to guess it's a highly organised Santa, it is now safely stashed away from curious eyes until the opening.

I wish I could sort Amazon listings by whether or not they will gift-wrap items for you.

Perfect idea: check. Execution: working on it.

Good idea. I'll go find Koontz's blog and write him to hear if he'll hand deliver a package from me.

Me too! My Santee is getting one purchased thing, and one handmade item. I so excite!

Something purchased, something handmade,
Something sticky, live grenade.

That's how I pack my Secret Santa box, anyway.

Prosody Nazis get two grenades. :)

BTW, here are links to my Amazon and Steam wish lists, if my Santa is really stuck. Feel free to go off-script and get me whatever you want, though. Even a live grenade!

Done.

Or a prosody grenade...

Er, that's a reminder for us when we eventually get around to remodeling our bathroom, So, uh, probably don't get that. I should also mention that Karen and I share a wish list on Amazon. The notes indicate which of us wants each item on the list.

Don't fret. There's a SU-25 Flanker on mine.

I've got half of what I want to send and just need to get the rest and off it goes! I'm both nervous and excited, I hope my santee likes what I've gotten them!

I'm at a complete loss. HALP :(

Another mystery package has arrived, it might be bee related things but it feels a bit light for 30kilos of invert sugar fondant.

I know what I want to get for my Santee, but I'm worried it's too on the nose and not cool enough.

WHAT MUST I DO TO APPEASE YOU AND MAKE YOU LIKE ME!!!!

or at the very least, not make you disappointed that you drew a horrible horrible Santa!

So...

I just discovered only the US version of the Avengers Blu-ray includes the Joss Whedon commentary, and that my dirty commie foreign version does not contain the wisdom of the King of nerds. So, you know....

I'M JUST SAYING!!!

Region encoding, though, dude. Unless you have ways around that?

Bluray is region encoded? I use a PS3 primarily as my bluray device.

But yeah, that would suck. :(

Some are, some aren't. Fortunately, this one apparently is region-free.

I should say that Omniscia lent a hand. I now have lots more info to work with.

I should also say that it's best if you don't ever cross him, because he has a very particular set of skills, and he will find you.

So how ballsy is everyone about getting their Santee something that they might already have? I'm doing a two-part gift, and one part is something that I know will be fine no matter what, but the other part that I have been considering is something that may be awesome, IF they don't already have it. I haven't been able to find any indication that they do in my stalking activities, but of course that's not conclusive.