ellynandroid: Well, this is pretty insignificant, but:
I'm 18, and have never been exactly a "girly girl" (whatever the hell that is, anyway), but the more important thing to note is my age. This year, for my birthday, I was presented with a (perfectly serious) gift of barbie doll makeup and nailpolish by my aunt.
It was awkward and weird and it's still sitting on my bookshelf, being pink and glittery.
shadowmirage: I've had similar incidents happen to me. My aunt had heard from somewhere that I was interested in games, so what does she get me? Games for girls! A wonderful and girly collection of
ten exciting mini-games! I was also 18 at the time >_<. Suffice to say, I fired it up just to see how bad it was, and it was awful beyond words. Not even satire material, just boring, sexist and abysmal.
Also, every year I receive cheap, glittery jewellery which I'll never wear, sickly sweet perfume which I'll never wear, and on one occasion, glitter eye-shadow. I never wear eye-shadow, and I'm not about to go near anything that makes me look like a disco ball.
I've just kind of given up on ever connecting to my extended family.
Oh look! I managed to find a [url=http://i.ebayimg.com/00/$(KGrHqQOKigE300T!hsNBODKGjLhTQ~~_35.JPG]picture of the cover of the CD-ROM.[/url]
Isn't it "cool"? ;)
Congratulations Shadowmirage, anyone who gets both the Twilight Series and a Games for Girls CD deserves some gaming goodness.
Thanks for all of the entries, as they were all great reads. Hope you enjoyed them as well.