I always enjoy a good white elephant Christmas party, when you never know if you’ll go home with something awesome or something completely lame. I still think the monster hat scored (which I gave to Kyra) was my favorite.
I have a long tradition of white-elephant gifts, such as three amazing vinyl LPs, five dollars in pennies, potato cookies, $2,000 in gift cards, and even last year’s Feliz Navidoug pillow. I’m also remembered for a massive CRT computer monitor that weighed around thirty pounds (rookie mistake: open the big heavy box), a puzzle featuring my friend dressed as a sexy firefighter, a Jesus Christ Atonement board game (!), and a lobster-topped serving bowl that seems to come back to our party each year.
And it’s that time again, so I was thinking of clever ideas. The best white-elephant gift is one that’s funny and somewhat useful, but not too nice or useful. After a few aborted directions, I settled on a custom-printed shower curtain. It arrived today.
This thing is so big. Six by six feet doesn’t seem that large until you unfold all of it and realize your face is a good three feet high. Pepper and I were laughing pretty hard.
In a couple of days I’m excited to see who takes this little gem home…