I love White Elephant gift exchanges, because it gives me a chance to clear the crap from my home and give it to someone else.
Except for last night, because the North Mexicans do not get the concept.
These were the gifts--see if you can guess which two I brought:
3 lb box of chocolate
gift set of cocoa and mugs
hand-painted snowman on a sled
snowman advent calendar
Yorba-Opoly, the fabulous board game all about Yorba Linda, CA
Box of orange sticks
box of extra-big reeses cups
Shrek DVD
hand-painted votive holders
Autographed, framed picture of Emeril ("Bam!")
Famed and modge-podged picture of Christ
Christmas mugs
Guess how many people felt really gypped at the end of the night?
That would be two.
Friday, December 15, 2006
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The advent calendar and emeril? (I like your disgruntled label) Do you recommend A Tree Grows in Brooklyn? My bk group is coming up with new books for the new year.
You got one right...
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is my all-time favorite book. It is beautiful to me. I even love it more than The Grapes of Wrath, which I didn't think was possible. Sue likes another book better--but I haven't read that one (See the comment on the previous post.)
I'm guessing Yorba-opoly and the Emeril picture. I really should pick up A Tree Grows in Brooklyn someday, although that would require me to read something that was A. Fiction and B. Fiction of the non-Sci-Fi/Fantasy variety. Getting me to do A is hard enough these days getting me to do it and not have the book be B is near impossible. Yes I know I'm a nerd.
Ding Ding Ding--we have a winner.
Bam! Wouldna I love an Emeril photo to sling gravy at in the kitchen.
I read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn several years ago for book club and it wasn't till I was about half-way through it when it all came back to me and remembered that as a girl I read it well into the morning, by flashlight under my bedspread so I wouldn't get in trouble for not sleeping. I loved it that much.
Another of my favorite books--this when I was even younger--was Mandy, by Julie Edwards (yes, a.k.a Mary Poppins!). It was my most favorite. The sad thing was last year my friend was having a rough time and need a diversion from her real life so I took her a stack of books and included that one for fun. I even told her it was my childhood favorite. She returned it and told me I might want to rethink about that one. It made me wonder if somehow she had forgotten to see things through the eyes of a child. I still recommend it for girls who are still young enough to be enchanted.
You had Yorba-Opoly in your posession and you didn't save it to send as my B-day gift? I'm hurt, seriously hurt.
ROTFL ;)
PS, thanks for the e-mail!! :)
CW--is Mandy the one with the amazing seashell house? Because that one was one of my favorites, but I forgot the title. W also loves The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles, by Julie Edwards.
Lu--I can probably get it back from the recipient. Or the Goodwill...
I'll have to read the tree book and the other recommendations. And... I was going to guess Yorba-Opoly - but thought it was too obvious for a gag... I don't know why - but assumed the advent calendar... looked like one that was half-eaten given it's the middle of Dec. ;-)
Shrek? That is so much wierder than Yorba-Opoly and more your style. Your list is NOT white elephant in the slightest.
Yes! Mandy has the seashell house. I loved that book.
What is WRONG with people?!?!? If you're gonna give/get crap it might as well be FUNNY!!! That's why white elephant was invented!!!!!!
WOW! You mean other people have read and love Mandy? I thought I was the only one! That was one of my favorites too as a kid. I lent it to my neice and never got it back. That kinda bugs me.
My favorite Christmas gift for neighbors (with a sense of humor) or white elephant parties? A liter of rootbeer and a can of chili. Attach a card that says, "Have a rootin' tootin' Christmas!" We got it once from our bishop.
Now I feel like the only one who HASN"T read Mandy.
I once got a used sticky candy cane stuck to an old washcloth for a white elephant back in Jr. High.
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