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Make me a hat.

December 13th, 2006 by cooper

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.

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12 Responses to “Make me a hat.”

  1. jacobNo Gravatar says:

    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.

  2. RioNo Gravatar says:

    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

  3. direheroicsNo Gravatar says:

    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. :)

  4. mojo shiversNo Gravatar says:

    Resist the urge to comply, Miss Coo­per. Go back to the old template.

    Damn the Christ­mas Man!

  5. johmNo Gravatar says:

    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.

  6. johmNo Gravatar says:

    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.

  7. joegNo Gravatar says:

    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.

  8. GNo Gravatar says:

    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.

  9. cooperNo Gravatar says:

    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.

  10. o_ceallaighNo Gravatar says:

    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.

    :)

  11. DaneNo Gravatar says:

    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.

  12. CupieNo Gravatar says:

    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