Merrrrry Christmas :D

I love Christmas! The spirit, the music, the joyyy. <3
I just finished watching Elf, and it got me in an even more Christmas-y mood. I want to go caroling and watch movies and eat holiday foods, guys! We should do this tomorrow. I'll bring music and movies, mebbe? And I'm making that yule log cake once I finish this post~
Unfortunately, I didn't feel our Secret Santa was very Christmas-spirited though ): The food wasn't Christmas-y. There was no Christmas music. The only Christmas-like thing was the gift exchange, and Calvin says Christmas shouldn't be materialistic and all about the gifts. We played Rock Band most of the night xD
I re-read my Christmas post from last year, and decided I should make one every year! :D I listed what I recieved and what I gave, and most importantly, people's reactions to the gifts I gave them! I absolutely adore Christmas shopping, and even more so adore it when people love what I got them~ I believe I'm a fairly good gift-finder/chooser/giver. Tom asked me for advice when he didn't know what to buy for someone in his family and I helped and he said I was the perfect person to ask, hooray!

Gifts I have/will recieve [so far...I shall add on after Christmas is over]:
-Boots from my brother
-12.1 mp Sony Cyber-shot camera [blue!] from my mother
-HP Elitebook laptop from my father
-$50 from my uncle
-$50 from my grandmother
-$300 from my aunt & her boyfriend
-Cucumber Melon lotion & hand sanitizer from Tom
-Moonlight path body collection from Liz
-Original PostSecret book from Amy

^Post Secret book = one of my new favorite gifts. I now have three favorite gifts ever; the other two are the Hey Jude music box from Tiffany and the Glee poster from Sam. The Post Secret book is because I love it so much, the music box is because it's very sentimental and dear to me, and the Glee poster is because I feel like that is one of the most generous and sweetest things anyone's ever done for me...so selfless :)
And I'm frustrated about the excess of lotion xD Liz was my secret santa, btw. But I've decided to never ask for toiletries again ever in my life. I can buy my own toiletries. I should only ask for necessities and/or sentimental gifts. At least they got different scents? xD

Gifts I have/will give [once again, I will add on more later]:
-Swarovski white rocking flower crystal to Mother
-Swarovski red rocking flower crystal to Grandmother
-Some Atlantis Lego set to Brother
-Self-Crocheted scarf, 2 gb pink USB, hot chocolate, returned V for Vendetta & coupons [to paint his room, go with him to DC, cook him food & watch V for Vendetta with him, and have a heated discussion with him over hot chocolate] to Reggie
-An Awesome Book to Samantha
-Pocket Posh Crosswords to Tiffany
-Self-designed wallet to Tom
-Collected menus to Vincent
-Get High Now to Liz
-Notebook & bag-like thing to Evelina
-Three books to Amy
-Desk lamp to Patu
-Cupcake candle to Alina

Yes! :D
So regarding reactions, the best by far is Reggie's. I was his Secret Santa, which is why I gave him more than anyone else. And I put the most effort in his gift :D When it was my turn, I pulled out his gift and handed it to him, and he was like, "What?!" and I'm like, "I know, right?" And he looked in the bag and asked, "ALL of these are for me?" And then he went off into like, the corner of the room, sitting on Vince's piano chair in seclusion, and opened up his gift all alone. So after opening it, he comes back and hugs me, and he says "You did the one thing I thought would never happen to me" or something. And he doesn't speak for like, half an hour. And then he disappears from the room quite a while. And when he comes back, I ask him, "What's wrong? I don't like your reaction to my gift!" And he just says "No, I'm just speechless! AND I'M NEVER SPEECHLESS. You've defeated me, woman!" And he continues saying things like "This is so surreal" or "I'm baffled," "I'm so confused!" "It still hasn't sunk in..." Later, he was all, "We need to talk. One on one, face to face." Haha, and then he sent me a text saying that it was so surreal and he was hoping he could transpire it into a letter. And then another text saying that since my gift was so good, he would try to give me a gift that is better or at least on par. And then his AIM profile today was "Still speechless [thanks to someone *cough cough*]" or something like that, and then his away messages were "Making a gift" and "So confused I hate women" or something like that. HOW SILLY. I'm glad I made such a fascinating impact though :)
Samantha ran up to me and hugged me really hard...I think it was after she read her card. I think everyone enjoyed my cards quite a bit? Patu and Amy both told me "I like your card!" Because basically I listed people's best traits in each of their cards :D I wanted to make you all feel better about yourselves ^^ I think it's important to be happy with one's self. And everyone was looking through Sam's book. And Patu left me a Facebook comment saying she liked the lamp. And Amy began reading on of her books right there, and gave me a hug~
And then Tiffany was like, "I love you, Vy-Anh! I'm going to finish this whole book in like, a day!" And then she began doing it and almost finished a crossword in a few minutes xDD That smarty-pants, her~
And then Tom was like, "This is so cool! Time to throw out my old wallet!" And then everyone was looking through it and agreed on it's coolness. And they all found it hilarious that I drew a dick in it [as Calvin told me to] xD
And then Vincent was like, "I know what this is!" before he opened it. And then after, "Oh my god, there's so many!" and he gave me a hug. He said, "I can put them up on my wall now, because I have enough!" And Leo was like "Wow, this makes my gift look bad. I gave him the Outback Steakhouse menu" hahaha.
And then Liz was like "Yayyyy! Thank youuu I wanted this so much. I'm going to do every single thing in this book! " And then she tried out something right there with Leo :P
And then Alina was like, "I love you, Vy-Anh! This is so cuteee!"
But Evelina didn't have much of a reaction. Boo, she's the only one xD Then again, she was one of the people I had no idea what to get...so I just picked out something random D:
OTHERWISE. THERE WERE SOME GOOD REACTIONS. I love seeing people happy because of me. I even wrote down last night, when I got home, "Knowing you've made someone else happier is the best feeling in the world." Seeing and hearing all this just made me want to smile all night longgg. Though that would have been creepy. But I probably smiled too much anyway xD My favorite thing about Christmas is seeing that I made so many people smile in one dayyy. I love making people smile. I love smiles. I LOVE HAPPINESS.
HAPPINESS IS THE MOST WONDERFUL GIFT IN THE WORLDDDDD
Happy happy happy Vy-Anh~!

***edit***
Tiff - "I've finised 2 crosswords so far ;D"
Sam - "I love inspirational kiddie books. Thanks, Vy-Anh. :) <3"
Tom - "i really loved the wallet, it was so wonderful."
Reading all three of these things brought a smile to my face, once again <3