Work Holiday Party
So all in all the holiday party was fun. I was probably the second person there because Dawn and David got stuck behind a bunch of buses and I was first in a line of cars on the way there. Haha. Atleast I saw someone I knew in the parking lot, or I wouldn't have known where I was going! My present was pretty big, I had wrapped the actual present (which was so cute!...I got penguin slippers that were attached to a cusion and was a foot massager! $10 at wally world!) and then put it in an awesome Vera Bradly box (which was SO pretty, but I had no use for it and it was just taking up space, and I knew out of all the women that work at my work, one of them would appreciate it!) at wrapped it, then put it in another bag and sprinkled hershey candies around it. I out do things sometimes, haha. Oh, and there are no pictures, because I forgot my camera at work! Anyway, people finally started arriving and we ate some snacks and we finally got to have the yankee swap!
The way we play it is everyone brings in (the limit this year was a $5 gift, but I was like, no...you can't get anything good for that amount, so mine was a tad bit more) gift and you put it on a table. Each gift is then numbered and everyone who brought a gift picks a number out of a tin. The first person opens gift #1. Then the second person can either steal what #1 got or open gift #2. And it goes on...in a round, only two swaps can be made (to save time). Then at the end when all the gifts are open, person #1 can swap and get any gift they want, since they never had the chance to steal. So yay for them! Courtney got to be #1, she didn't know the power she had until we explained it to her. Haha. I was #6. When it was my turn I chose to open my gift. It was a cute cheerleader penguin that danced and sang "Jingle Bells." Debbie ended up stealing it from me and I got a measly mug. This mug cost 99 cents (according to the sticker on the bottom), and looked like it had already been used. Needless to say, my present was never stolen from me again. It was a cute mug and all...but it just kinda sucked you know?
I did try to get rid of it by trying to tell people in search of a trade how great of a mug it was, but I didn't want to be too obviously disappointed. I don't like to offend people. And I was afraid the person who got it would have thought of me as an unappreciative little...female dog. But Dawn was funny, she was so angry that they had put no money or effort into the gift and thought it was so gross that it looked used. She just went off about it. She said that gifts should cost ATLEAST $5 so no one gets as crummy of a gift as I got stuck with, and that I spent $10 on a gift and put a lot of effort into it, and I didn't deserve to be stuck with that. Haha. She was telling Dave some of this too (he's another guy who works over in Marketing...he didn't forget his camera, haha). But she was really funny, and I'm really glad she had my back. But sometimes you just gotta live with what you got. And I'm hoping maybe I can con some sucker into buying the mug on ebay or something...for around $5. Then at least the mug will be good for something, and I'll clean it before giving it away!
My present got swapped around a bunch. It started out with...I think her name is Tracey, and she loved the box, and she was excited with the slippers. Then Nancy from my part of the office stole them from her. Then Andy from Finance stole them from Nancy for his pregnant wife. All this time Tracey kept the Vera Bradley box hidden in hopes everyone who was doing the stealing wouldn't want the box either. However, up came Shawn's turn (he use to be my office mate a while ago!) and he had this whole speech, and we didn't know exactly what he was going for, then he went for the slipper, AND he wanted the box for his wife too! Hahaha. It was hilarious that he had remembered it and called Tracey out on it. He ended up with it in the end. He was really happy with it! I'm glad.
THE TWIST!
I get to work today, and I'm sitting at my desk minding my own business when Dave (the one who I spoke of before) shows up with a gift bag in his hand. He told me it was for me, but before I could see it I had to be prepared not to be offended because it looked a little risque. Haha. I told him I'm not too easily offended by things (I am in a section of mostly college guys who are so ridiculous). He told me he bought a bunch of these, but when he saw them, he decided he couldn't give them away as gifts because of how they looked. So now I'm like, I wanna know what it is!!! Haha. He was giving the gift to me because he felt bad about how I got shafted a the party yesterday. (Can you tell how Dawn talked about it now!? That mug wasn't even his gift!) He finally handed it to me and I opened it, and it was a cactus pen!!! (It looks a little falic/vibratorish) Haha. It is so cute, and I was like, this is so awesome!!! That was so nice of him to do that for me. So I'm definately going to have to get him the most awesome thank you card known to man. As soon as I get home and am able to upload a picture of it, you can see it too!
Getting that mug had a good out come, haha.
~Taylor~
P.S. The traffic here in Blacksburg is horrible!!! Graduation is tomorrow, and the last exams were today. So a ton of people coming and going equal a TON of traffic.