Friday, December 19, 2008

elephant in the room

today was the annual office-only christmas party aboard the good ship enterprise. we had a nice, catered, family-friendly affair a few days ago, but the office-only party is where all the fun happens. and by fun, i mean gambling.

first, though, we had the obligatory white elephant gift exchange. (oh, that old chestnut!) i never really care what i get at those things. my goal is always just to get rid of something lame that's been cluttering up my house. this year it was a wooden craft of unknown origin. i believe it said something like, "family: our greatest gift." the person who got that should feel lucky indeed. and i feel pretty lucky about my take-home as well.


{i am keeping the foreign coke for sure. the spam, strangely, did not make it home.}

once presents are done it's time to break out the petty cash and go wild. (are you starting to see why this is an office-only affair?) this year it was "crap on your neighbor" and "acey-doocey" or something like that. the important details are that there was lots of hooting and hollering and table pounding and shennanigans, the COO lost everything on a big and ill-advised bet and i came home with all these quarters.



do you have any idea how many diet cokes that will buy me at the sev? and may god bless them, every one.

3 comments:

Mojo said...

Let me just say I was excited to see, "Кока Кола" on the Coke can. Oh how we love Mother Russia.

Katie said...

oh the irony of you getting spam :) Congrats!

Miko said...

The best W.E. gift I ever gave was the William Hung CD. People acutally fought over it!