My work does not gift and my last one did secret giftees only. the job before that we did gift/card within our small 5 person office.
Book: Yes, I'd forgotten you're moonlighting as a criminal mastermind now. Got your next heist planned? Simon: No. But I'm thinking about growing a big black mustache. I'm a traditionalist.
'War Stories'
Natter 41: Why Do I Click on ita's Links?!
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
msbelle - Dec 21, 2005 5:40:05 pm PST #4358 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
sarameg - Dec 21, 2005 5:41:29 pm PST #4359 of 10002
You need those, Kat.
Well, one pair of mine are olive... I really like olive, actually. I'm just bent because I didn't get the olive shoes in black as well before they sold out. Stupid me.
bon bon - Dec 21, 2005 5:42:39 pm PST #4360 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Ugh, I forgot to give a gift to our messenger on our floor. I am the worst at christmas-- I leave whatever gifts I am going to buy until the very last minute (this year, it's Friday) and forget to get gifts for friends. I look forward to the day I'm a real grownup like msbelle.
Cass - Dec 21, 2005 5:43:58 pm PST #4361 of 10002
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Do people at your job gift and card each other? Or is it a school thing?I've seen it happen in a lot of places. And rather randomly. There's usually a person or three who give out personalized wee gifts and cards. Makes me feel guilty because I am really not that person no matter how much I would like to pretend.
Cass - Dec 21, 2005 5:49:38 pm PST #4362 of 10002
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
I keep clicking to links of shoes that are adorable but that I can't see myself buying. I can see myself borrowing them from a friend (like, say, from the friend of mine who loves fun shoes and then lets me take them out for an evening) and adoring them.
Jesse - Dec 21, 2005 5:52:46 pm PST #4363 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
There's usually a person or three who give out personalized wee gifts and cards. Makes me feel guilty because I am really not that person no matter how much I would like to pretend.
That's me, too.
Kat - Dec 21, 2005 5:54:08 pm PST #4364 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
are you not a shoe person, Cass?
Kat - Dec 21, 2005 5:58:37 pm PST #4365 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I'm clearly a shoe person (in college I had a sort of imelda rep and at one point, I moved ~100 pairs of shoes in plastic boxes, labelled from one apartment to the next). But I'm becoming a bag person. I bought this one today (see what I mean about pink giraffe pattern). Though GOOD GOD I paid less than 1/10th what the bag retails for.
Cass - Dec 21, 2005 6:08:47 pm PST #4366 of 10002
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
I am not a shoe buying person. However, it seems that I do love to have a shoe-buying friend who has overflowing closets.
I worry that I won't wear them enough to be worth buying. Which is odd because some of my least rational purchases have been some of the best.
So I am becoming a reform shoe person.
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 21, 2005 6:11:36 pm PST #4367 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I have a gigantic family and a budget in the red, so the only non-relatives getting a gift from me are my Secret Santa recipient here, the design firm (run by a couple of decade-old friends) that's currently killing itself for my company, and my best friend's family. I got cards for a few other old friends, but everyone else is going to have to settle for an exhausted "Happy Christmukkah!" in their general direction.