All Things Woompty

Yo ho ho and a bottle of wine

Today was the Annual Gift Exchange here at work (aka the Annaul Booze Grab, since usually at least 50% of the gifts are alcoholic in nature and those are the ones that get fought over the most) (Case in point: this year I brought a bottle of Ketel One; it was stolen the requisite 3 times within 5 minutes.) I ended up with a nice bottle of Robert Mondavi wine, and a nice case of heartburn from the cider and cookies. (Although it was fun to listen to our very Bostonian Head Boss of Them All try and say "ciDER" instead of "ciDAH").

I came back to my desk and in between dealing with a last few bits of Friday afternoon madness, I did most of my Christmas shopping. Ah, the joys of the internet. I may not have to step foot in a mall even once this year. Hooray for Amazon, is all I have to say about that. Mom's big gift (which is actually very small), Kevin's gifts, JM's gift....done, done, done. I'm quite the clever one, I must say. I even managed to score cheapie gifts to give to people at work, and I'm stocking up on necklaces for various friends as I type this.

I already gave the cats their presents. First I bought a Christmas tree big enough for them to lay under which...yeah, they're loving it entirely too much. Abbie likes to spend the evenings chewing on the bottom branches. I figure it's as close as she's going to come to brushing her teeth so eh, whatever. And I gave them some new catnip toys, which they love. Watching Abbie and Riley on catnip is like watching a bunch of kids on Ecstasy. They both get these big giant eyes, and start running around all paranoid for a couple minutes. Riley starts drooling, then Abbie has to start rubbing all over things and next thing you know they're sprawled out on the floor just rolling around like it's the best thing they've ever felt in their WHOLE LIVES. It's an awesome things to watch, that's for sure.

Tomorrow it's off to LA for fried chicken and waffles (ironically, right after my Weight Watchers meeting), and then I'm going to really get crazy and go scrapbooking! Because I am just that crazy.

posted by Melinda @ 5:02 PM