My husband and I never get too flashy or ostentatious when it comes to gifts for each other, but we try to find meaningful things!

In a lot of ways, 2024 was a “It’s a Physical Media  Christmas, Charlie Brown!”

About that… here’s one of our “for both of us gifts:

Behold Snoopy showing his fangs to a bigger sled dog:

Another “for both of us” gift was this:

As for things I gave to my husband, he now has a complete set of Elric books by Michael Moorcock! I found a cool web site called Abe Books, which has an impressive selection of hard-to-find and used books.

He specifically wanted his three missing volumes to have the same covers as his existing books which look like this:

As if Elric books weren’t nerdy enough (LOL), I also bought him a new set of “bones:”

Speaking of completing sets, he knew there was a DVD missing from my unofficial “best silly comedies of the 80s” set. He bought me a copy of Better off Dead a few years ago, which I like to watch around Christmas each year. Trust me, it IS a Christmas movie – in the same way that Die Hard is also a Christmas movie (fight me)!

And the unofficial movie to complete the two-volume set is:

Lastly, I received a book from a series I’ve been enjoying that I have not been able to get from my local library  (some bastard is refusing to return it):