But because you got the 000, I get to vent about my dumb office party that I will have to attend again next year. Why you ask?
Well, we had a gift excange- one of the goofy ones where you open gifts and steal and trade. Lots of fun, a few really nice gifts and a couple really crummy ones. I admit I regifted a nice holiday candle set, never been opened, and perfectly usable. And things were going great. I spent most of the game with a nice photo album/scrapbook in by lap when lo and behold, it gets stolen and I have to pick another gift.
Well, I pick a nice looking gift in a large, thin box - not too extravagent, not too plain- and opened it up. And guess what's inside? Why nothing but a baby blue plastic TOILET SEAT with a motivational message scribbled on the lid in black marker. I was so embarassed that I blushed. My co-workers couldn't decide what was funnier, the toilet seat or the embarassed new girl. *sigh*
So in the interest of making lemonade out of my lemon of a gift, I'm going to decopauge motivational messages and wacky pictures on the seat. It will then be wrapped up for next year, which means I have to go to the party again. Ack! The first one that came to mind was "if at first you don't suceed, try, try again." Got any other ideas?
The first on that came to MY mind was "This, too, shall pass"! LOL!
There ya go! I hate office Christmas parties. You spend all year wanting to kill each other and one day a year you have to play nice. That's just silly and it's not Christmas.
Maybe your gift will become a tradition. When my wife and her brother were in high school they were shopping and saw this absolutely trashy purple "teddy" with purple fur. So they bought it and wrapped it up for their sister.
When her sister opened it she screamed "JIM!" thinking her husband had done it. But after that for about 15 years, it passed around the family. A few years back it disappeared. We think one of the neices got it and actually wore it....eeeeeeeewwww! (If you knew the neice...)