I actually finished up Christmas shopping today - all I have to do is mail stuff out tomorrow. I probably shouldn't mention this, but I live in North Carolina, so no snow anywhere in sight :P It has turned cold lately, though :/
I've only played two hacks, probably because I prefer to wait until they're completed for the most part - one thing I find hard to do is to stop something midway through and pick it up later, as I forget what happened before I stopped playing/watching/reading it lol
I'm not sure if I'll cosplay this time around, since I really don't have anything new and I'd just be reusing old outfits. I guess I'll see about it the closer I get to the actual convention.