white elephants
Any excuse to have more cookies. There are 14 people in my department. Despite the impending ice storm, on Thursday everyone brought a wrapped gift and finger food: lemon bars, homemade hot pepper cheese crackers (it's a Southern thing--flour, butter, cheese, cayenne pepper, rolled in rice krispies and baked), cucumber sandwiches, brie, grapes, baklava, shortbread cookies...
But it's the white elephants that make the party. Simple rules. Draw a number. Number 1 goes first, and anyone who follows can take your gift or one that is wrapped. Not complicated. The tackier the gift the better, with the occasional tasteful, appropriate relapse. The gift I brought went first to a librarian
and then to a science writer.
I escaped the orange plastic Florida Marlin's night light and came home with a cookie jar that I bet no one in my family would ever think to give me. I see the beginning of a collection.
Recipe from another party. Take a cheeseball. Layer it with cream cheese and score it to look like bricks. The penguins are two olives each. Split the bottom olive and fill it with cream cheese for the stomach. Slices of carrots for the feet and a sliver of carrot for the nose. There were women struck speechless when they saw this.
No silly hats for this cat.
But it's the white elephants that make the party. Simple rules. Draw a number. Number 1 goes first, and anyone who follows can take your gift or one that is wrapped. Not complicated. The tackier the gift the better, with the occasional tasteful, appropriate relapse. The gift I brought went first to a librarian
and then to a science writer.
I escaped the orange plastic Florida Marlin's night light and came home with a cookie jar that I bet no one in my family would ever think to give me. I see the beginning of a collection.
Recipe from another party. Take a cheeseball. Layer it with cream cheese and score it to look like bricks. The penguins are two olives each. Split the bottom olive and fill it with cream cheese for the stomach. Slices of carrots for the feet and a sliver of carrot for the nose. There were women struck speechless when they saw this.
No silly hats for this cat. 
posted by into my 60s at 8:26 PM
1 Comments:
I never would have expected a report of your office celebration. We're having a different type theme at our middle school party - a baby shower for our teachers. No white elephant gifts here - just baby stuff.
You're getting pretty good at including photos with your posts.
And I thought you'd take the hat challenge.
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