It's a family thing, and I don't really want to spray my drama everywhere.
(sends hugs) I didn't know you had that problem too. Know that I am jealous, because you are allowed to help. I am still working on that part.
2009 was pretty good: I still live inside and eat food every day.
2009 was pretty bad: I'm thinking about cancelling my subscription to the SF Chronicle for cost. I'm already a rent refugee, why should I prop up their newspaper with my money so the people who like the online edition get all the good stuff?
A quick Secret Santa question. Do the Santas de-secret themselves when they send the gift (i.e., sign a card or the return address)? I haven't participated before, so I'm not familiar with the etiquette.
I think you can do it either way.
I have received Secret Santa packages that have had names attached and that haven't. Usually the haven't are ones where I can fairly easily figure out who it is from.
It's up to you, Calli. Barb and I kept the ::wink, wink, nudge, nudge:: going quite a while last year. For some folks, half the fun is guessing who the sender was, but there's usually a reveal at some point.
I just want to say that I
FINALLY
sent out my Secret Santa package... from 2008. I feel terrible that I'm a year late and hope my Santee forgives me.
Er...I don't think I've received my Secret Santa assignment again, but if I have...please resend with a giant "SECRET SANTA STUPID" because I get a shitton of things in my junk mail and although I try to read through the subject line of everything, I forgot I'm looking for this and it maybe have been deleted.
okthxbye
Last year was the first time I participated, and I didn't even think keeping my identity secret.
Not that it would help, anyway. Unless the giftee expects for another package from Israel, it's kind of redundant.
As for myself, I think that getting a package from a secret Santa that would choose to keep herself/himself secret would drive me crazy. I know that most of you live in the U.S., but except for two or three of you I have no idea on which states you are, and I'd be lost. Of course, if watching me going insane online for months trying to figure out who you are and trying to bribe people from long distance to revile their identity will make you happy, go for it. You might end up with a future therapist's check to pay, but I like to keep my people happy.
I have never understood what the "secret" part of secret santa is, if there is only 1 gift and the santa is revealed on that gift. But I went to a highschool where the secret santa thing was 2-3 weeks long and people got gifts throughout, so there was a lot to guess on and a lot of misdirection at times.
