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Thu | December 21, 2006

Santa sale ou l'éléphant blanc

I went to a Dirty Santa party on Saturday, and exchanged a diamond-cut box of Ferrero Rocher chocolates for a moleskine journal. Which I thought was a pretty good outcome. I am glad I did not bring the earrings. Gender-specific gifts are difficult and there were a lot of guys there, and low-key girls who would have had no use for those fancy things- as fabulous as I myself believe they are. And a great steal... speaking of which, stealing in dirty santa is key. You must not open a new gift, if you can help it, because it could be obscene-shaped pasta. And middle numbers are best because some good things have been opened, but not stolen twice, whereas the early people will probably have to risk opening something, and the last people are pressured to stop the madness already and open the last gift. If you don't care about that then drawing a late number is okay, is better actually. You will have your choice of gift, except the most popular ones. But even those, you could be the second to steal and then it would be yours. Choosing something to second steal is better too because then you don't have to worry about anyone taking it from you. Or what I did was open the plastic on my journal and put it in my bag so that everyone forgot about it. Not that anyone wanted it. Coldstone gift card and candles were popular. In addition to my gorgeous chocolates.

Then there was karaoke (this was at Yello bar) and I stayed long enough for "Stand by Me" to come on and made the correct decision to stop at two drinks, because I had the mildest strain in my head as I went to sleep. Tsz says I drink too quickly and he's totally right. When they taste like fruit juice you really have to remind yourself that it's not.

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