The final Secret Santa present I got was a beautiful necklace from Colleen of Lavender Lines:

Thanks, Colleen!

As I said in previous posts, I’ve got some catching up to do with old blog posts. Remember I organized a Blogger’s Secret Santa last December? Well, I ended up getting this wonderful book:

Awesome, right? I still haven’t had time to read it, but it contains some of the essential Philip K. Dick stories: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (which Blade Runner is based on), Martian Time Slip, Ubik, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch and A Scanner Darkly.

Thanks, Secret Santa!

My discovery of 2009 was Lush and their wonderful products. I’m so addicted to their stuff now! So I’ve decided to give a couple of their products away to one reader!

Now I know not everyone likes the same stuff, so my question to you dear readers is: What type of scents do you like? I love honey, jasmine and strawberries, so Lush products like Flying Fox and American Cream are my faves. To enter leave a comment behind with your favourites scents, and I’ll try to put a nice sample of Lush products together for the winner based on what you like. Also let me know if you have a bath or not! You’ve got until January 1st 18:00 to enter. Btw, if you re-tweet you get an extra entry!

Anybody is free to enter, but there shouldn’t be any weird delivery costs or restrictions (like I have to be able to ship liquids etc to your country).

Episode 154: “On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love gave to me”

The Muppets perform on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon:

And then there was this Muppet video a couple of weeks ago which I hadn’t shared with you yet:

Have a Merry Christmas, everybody! Thanks for coming by and reading Miss Geeky the past year. Hope you all have a wonderful day!

Regular readers here will know how much I love Joss Whedon’s work. Buffy, Angel, Firefly. The TV shows and the spinoff comic books. I love them all (although some more than others). So it shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone that I’m now addicted to his latest show Dollhouse.

I’m currently in the second season, and although it’s been cancelled, it keeps getting better and better. The latest ep? AWESOME. I can’t wait for the final 3 episodes, and I’m hoping we’re getting a finished story. I’m still annoyed that Fox cancelled it, but knowing Whedon I think we’ll get some closure one way or another.

Anyhow, back to Christmas presents. In my eyes the Dollhouse Season 1 DVD set would make a great gift! If you haven’t seen the show, it’s definitely one every sci-fi geek should watch (especially the 13th episode Epitaph One). Even if you’ve seen the show already, it’s one of those series you should own (just like Buffy, Angel and Firefly).

Thanks to Zavvi.com, I’ve gotten one DVD set of Dollhouse Season 1 to giveaway! To enter the competition, leave a comment behind on this post with your favourite Joss Whedon TV show moment. This can be anything from  a funny quote from Firefly, or an amazing monster fight from Buffy.

You’ve got until Wednesday 23rd 18:00 (UK) to enter. Sorry to disappoint, but this competition is only open to those based in the UK. For those of you overseas, don’t worry I’ve got a couple of other giveaways lined up that are open to everyone!

I should have blogged about this gift idea a little bit earlier, cause the deadline for Christmas delivery of domestic orders was yesterday. Ehm, well, anyway… these still make great birthday presents!

The xkcd comics is one of the geekiest (in the techy sense) around. I gave Cristiano these posters last year, and (even though he still hasn’t hung them up) they are brilliant:

Online Communities $15.00 (the original comic)

Map of the Internet $15.00 (the original comic)

Besides posters they’ve got a couple T-Shirts of some of the comics and just recently they published a book! It features a selection of the first 600 comics, including various author and fan favourites.

All the above is available at the xkcd store.

I got my first Secret Santa present a couple of days ago for one of the Book Bloggers Secret Santas I’m participating in:

The Lion of Ireland from Morgan Llywelyn! Thank you, Secret Santa. I have no idea who sent this to me, but I know I’m going to like it. I can’t wait to find out what my Secret Santa person thinks of what they’ll receive.

The past couple of years I haven’t been gaming that much; besides the occasional small game on the Nintendo DS, I think the last real proper games I played were Kingdom Hearts 2 and Final Fantasy XII on the PS2. A couple of months ago I borrowed a Wii, but I haven’t actually “played” anything on that besides EA Personal Trainer. There are however a lot of games out there that I want to try, but just never got around to getting.

Also so far it hasn’t seemed like a good idea to invest in a PS3 or an Xbox 360; I know what type of games I like, and nothing that has come out so far seems worth getting a new console for. Especially with the amount of PS2 and Wii games I have yet to try out. But looking at the titles to be released in the next couple of months, I think that’s going to change. For starters Final Fantasy XIII is coming out in March and that for me is finally a game worth getting a PS3 for.

So here is a list of the games I’m interested in getting. Some are pretty old, some aren’t even out yet, but they all look like fun.

Final Fantasy XIII (PS3 & Xbox 360)

As I said above, Final Fantasy XIII is a must-have on my wish list. I’ve been addicted to this series ever since VIII came out, and I still can’t get enough from them. I’ve actually only finished 2 of the games I’ve played properly (from the 8 I own), but with “properly” I mean unlocking all items, all secrets, etc. I think I’ve put in at least 50 hours per game (with some of the extreme ones topping at least 150 hours). It’s one of the few games I know I will play exhaustively and the price-to-hours-of-gameplay ratio has kind of spoiled me for most other games. Release Date: March 2010

Dante’s Inferno (PS3 & Xbox 360)

I got to play this last week at a demo day from EA and I really like the look of it. I’ll try to post a full review of what I saw later this week. It’s based on, well, Dante’s Inferno, the first part of Dante’s poem Divine Comedy. The levels in the game actually correspond with the 9 circles of Hell mentioned in the poem and it’s interesting to see how they’ve interpreted the different aspects of the poem. Release Date: February 2010

God of War I, II & III (PS2 & PS3)

I’ve never played any of the God of War games, but they look awesome! You know how much of a sucker I am for Greek mythology, so God of War shouldn’t disappoint. Release Date: March 2010 for III, I and II are out now.

Sacred 2: Fallen Angel (PS3, Xbox 360, PC)

I was addicted to Sacred when it came out 5 years ago, but the game was so buggy I got stuck and never finished it. I’ve been eyeing it’s sequel since it came out, but was never sure if it was worth getting or not.

Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days (Nintendo DS)

I’ve played all the previous Kingdom Hearts games and it’s another series I just love. It combines Final Fantasy with Disney! How could you not love that!

Scribblenauts

I’ve heard so much about this game, but have yet to play it. You basically have to solve puzzles by summoning objects by writing their names. You can write down anything you can think of which might help you, like ‘ladder’ but also stuff like celebrities, animals and internet memes.

What are the games you are hoping to get for Christmas? Any suggestions of games I might like?

I’ve written about how much I love this series, so I thought it would be perfect book to giveaway during Christmas!

To enter, leave a comment behind answering the following: What is your favourite fantasy series? You’ve got until Wednesday 16th 18:00 to enter. Btw, if you re-tweet you get an extra entry!

Anybody is free to enter, as long as there isn’t any weird delivery costs and restrictions.