Ever get one of those Harry and David Baskets?
Except for the fruit there is nothing edible in those things; the candy is horrible and the little pound cakes and other such stiff is full of trans fat and some other kind of fat I’ve never even heard of.
I have a great aunt who still sends me one very large Harry and David tower of utopia every year — next year remind me not to give her my address; I wish she would learn to make sweaters, or hats.
If you think I am disingenuous for changing my template for the holiday raise your hand.
I feel like a girl who wears jean and sandals, black pants and black boots who all of a sudden gets dressed in a little red number with matching shoes and bag.
The shoes are too high, the bag is too small and the stockings itch.
I was just at Pia’s and mentioned I think I am the only one who does lunch-break blog checks.
I wanted to clarify why I am always first, don’t want anyone to think I have nothing better to do. ;)
Having a home office does allow for some freedoms.
The firm I worked for right out of college used to give Harry and David baskets to their employees every year. I admit to liking them at the time. I was starving and poor.
Don’t mind the template change, it is not as personalized as your usual but it’s festive.
i guess you could say the stockings do itch a bit, buts it temporary, just think, later when you get home you can take em off and dance around naked
No. I have seen such baskets but never had one delivered. May I make the assumption that they are on par with the flavor quality of say… a cheese and sausage box set?
Since I used to work as a seasonal manager at a department store in college, I grew a heavy disdain for most gift sets/gift baskets. I know you’re not alone, but the sheer number of those things that are sent out gives me shivers.
Mmmm. Dried soup in a packet and little bowls far too small to do anything with.
I did receive a scarf last year for xmas and have enjoyed it thoroughly.
As for the template, I don’t find it off at all. Considering the pagan synchretism at work with the mistletoe… I actually kind of wonder if it isn’t strangely appropriate. :)
Resist the urge to comply, Miss Cooper. Go back to the old template.
Damn the Christmas Man!
Those baskets are gross, except for the fruit. We get a few of those every year and most of it ends up in the trash, if someone sent me one during finals exams I’d eat every last morsel.
I say stick it out, you’ve committed to the holiday and the cheer — stay the course.
You look better in jeans and sandals but a change-up never hurt anyone.
Stay the course may not be the wisest choice of words, all things considered.
Metaphorically you look better in jeans and sandals but a change-up never hurt anyone.
I deleted that middle paragraph and it didn’t delete, I don’t usually repeat myself.
Just go in and erase the third paragraph and then erase this comment.
I think a nice previewer for comments would be a good gift. They have something that allows people who comment to erase their comments for a specified period of time — get that.
Keep it, then go back your own thing as always.
I’m not much on sending corporate type gifts to friends or family but I never look a gift horse in the mouth.
wait, wait,
where did you go?
I will take anything this time of year,but you’re right that stuff is gross. I am on a diet of fish oil, vitamins, fruits, vegetables and Panaro’s until I get out of here.
I’m not raising my hand.
Jacob: Oh, sure Jacob.
Rio: and it will feel delightful I’m certain.
Dan: you haven’t missed a thing, and as you obviously noticed their ingredients are pretty lethal.
I like receiving hand made things.
I think it is strangely appropriate.
mojo: you would be the one.
john: I shall stay the course then. They do have a plugin for that somewhere. I never saw the need for it but I’ll see what I can do.
joe: just don’t eat the stuff in it.
G: alrighty then.
To me, the H&D basket is as sterile as the emotionally-empty gift exchange tradition of which it is a part. Scrooge might even have approved — so long as it was a job he could assign to Crachit.
Enjoy your template experiments. You’re going to look back on all this five years from now and wonder “what the hell was I thinking?” At least you’ll have something to think about.
And as for that naked dancing, you and Rio .… nah, I’ll let you guess.
:)
It doesn’t matter to me one way or another, but if I had to say I vote for keeping this for the holiday and then going back to your own thing.
Disingenuous? Not so much. I know it’s driving you crazy to have a template that someone else has.
Handmade stuff is great but if you are sending me a basket just fill it with gift certificates to technology warehouses.
I liked the holiday temp, but I’m a festive bitch like that. It’s fun to be sparkly sometimes, sure I do it in my Chuck Taylors, but I shine and that’s as groovy as it comes.
The choice is always yours, do as you wish, but never forget to shine ;) xoxo