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