billytea! I was just trying to wrangle my vacation time for August -- when, exactly are you going to get to Cincy, and when are you leaving?
Zoe: Next time we smuggle stock, let's make it something smaller. Wash: Yeah, we should start dealing in those black-market beagles.
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Natter 46: The FIGHTIN' 46
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.
Steph L. - Aug 06, 2006 3:02:45 pm PDT #1125 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Zenkitty - Aug 06, 2006 3:03:12 pm PDT #1126 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Serious question. How much is a single woman of modest means (me) expected to give as a wedding gift to a (good but not super-close) work-friend?
I'm not attending the wedding, as it is too far away (no one from work is, as far as I know); I am attending the reception, which is sure to be quite a party. I know this girl from work, and I like her, but we're not bestest buddies. I have very little experience with such social functions, and I'm not really sure what's expected. (They're both late twenties; her first marriage, his second.)
Steph L. - Aug 06, 2006 3:04:48 pm PDT #1127 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Zenkitty, can you and other co-workers chip in to get a group gift for her?
Zenkitty - Aug 06, 2006 3:09:48 pm PDT #1128 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Oh, we did, Steph. Three of us went in to get her a expensive juicer, which was the shower gift. We all also got her a small "wishing well" gift for the shower. We're also expected to give the new couple cards with money in them at the reception. I didn't know this. I'm such a social klutz. I'm pretty sure none of the other weddings I've been to have had this tradition, though.
There should be a book of rules, covering all possible adult social functions, handed out to everyone on their 20th birthday.
Jesse - Aug 06, 2006 3:15:10 pm PDT #1129 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
The problem is that every group of people has a different set of rules. Can you ask other people what they're giving?
msbelle - Aug 06, 2006 3:18:30 pm PDT #1130 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Is the reception a sit down meal? If so, give the equivilent of the cost of the meal in the card and be done with it. If not, give whatever you feel comfortable with in the card, and that should suffice for a gift.
mini-rant - an invitation is just that, an invitation. Gifts are a bonus. Expectations of gifts make my skin crawl and expectations of money plus gifts is just a lot (especially when shower and engagement and blah blah blahdy blah gifts are also thrown into the mix).
Typo Boy - Aug 06, 2006 3:18:43 pm PDT #1131 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Abstract of the Day:
Unit Roots in Real GNP: Do We Know, and Do We Care?
LAWRENCE J. CHRISTIANO
Northwestern University; Federal Reserve Bank of Clevelandt other authors and banks snipped
NBER Working Paper No. W3130
Abstract: No, and maybe not.
Sophia Brooks - Aug 06, 2006 3:20:05 pm PDT #1132 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
It's a tough to choose between devotion to the theater and devotion to a cat. Particularly when one abused you and the other attacked you this year.
I am not sure why this made me laugh so much!
Perhaps because devotion to either, really, seems ridiculous!
Also, I hate wedding gifts. And I always give a gift, not money, because I am a PITA. How about a nice crystal vase. That was always my gift of choice (although I did work in a crstal dept at the time). But everyone I know still seems t use the crystal.
beth b - Aug 06, 2006 3:23:28 pm PDT #1133 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Candlesticks are often my gift of choice.
Jesse - Aug 06, 2006 3:28:02 pm PDT #1134 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
mini-rant - an invitation is just that, an invitation. Gifts are a bonus. Expectations of gifts make my skin crawl and expectations of money plus gifts is just a lot (especially when shower and engagement and blah blah blahdy blah gifts are also thrown into the mix).
Oh yeah, true fact. If you're only work friends, you really could skip the wedding gift altogether, if you've already ponied up for two different things.