Tell me why, I don't like Mondays

[wednes]

I'm organizing the Secret Santa gift exchange at work. I'm somewhat vexed at the thought that not everyone, or even most people, want to participate. How can a work-related holiday gift exchange possibly not be fun? I don't get it.

Finally got to watch Tropic Thunder last night. Reminds me of how much I love Ben Stiller and his amazing grasp of what's funny. Even Jack Black was utlized in such a way so as not to annoy or irritate me. So that was cool. I enjoyed the movie very much although I was fairly certain someone would die--no one did.

Played Xbox and Wii yesterday, pretty much all day. Cooking Mama is enormous fun. And I'm pretty good at Kung Fu Panda game, even though that also has Jack Black in it. Actually, I also finished baking my holiday cookies. I think I'm going to do a small batch of cherry chocolate chip cookies for work. I have a can of tart cherries I think will be delicious in it. Today will be more zombie bashing and shooting after work. Yay!!

Comments

[trollhagen.livejournal.com]

Having to buy a gift for someone you may not like (since you don't know who you're going to get until you join) is not fun. Being pressured into joining is even less fun.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Honestly, everyone likes each other around our office. And we're not buying gifts, we're making them. Some people are just grinchy, I think.

Then again, it might just be one more holiday related annoyance for people...oh well.

[trollhagen.livejournal.com]

See, not everyone is crafty. They may view this as a burden, not something fun, even if everyone likes each other. I personally like to handle my own gifts, my own way.

[groovesinorbit]

*nods* My feeling on the subject, too.

[valyazhnaya.livejournal.com]

I wanted to, and even had a list prepared, but I was sick on Friday and I didn't get to work today until 2! :(

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Dang. We drew names today.
I wish I'd known that.

[cmdavi-70.livejournal.com]

Didn't the director in Tropic Thunder step on a land mine and die?

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Yes, he did. I was thinking more of the core cast who gets left out in the jungle. They all live, even the skinny white guy you think is there just to die 3/4 of the way in...but then he lives.

It's just like Gimli in LotR's.