December 23, 2006
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Office Christmas parties….. oh no!
Yesterday was the DET Christmas party. These are usually fun to some extent. For the children they are usually quite boring. They have a high def. Vis lab there that they usually show movies on during the parties to keep the older kids from being bored out of their minds. This year however they choose to show Christmas movies like Charlie Brown Christmas, Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer and the cartoon version of How the Grinch stole Christmas. This kept the littler kids entertained (which is sad because they usually entertain themselves) and left the older kids to their own devices. Luckily we had let each child bring a friend so they had someone to stay occupied with.
The party is held in MHPCC (Maui High Performance Computing Center). Basically its a big, bland conference room. The ladies who organized it did a great job making the place look festive.
The best part of the party is the White Elephant gift exchange. You can bring something nice, limit of $10.00, or you can bring a white elephant or joke gift. Last year we got a rubber chicken (that has been making an appearance for at least five years) and a used VHS of Jimi Hendrix Rainbow Bridge. This year we gave: A rubber chicken, and a DVD copy of Jimi Hendrix, Rainbow Bridge. We had a friend convert the VHS to DVD — made a copy of the cover and voila! The chicken has the year and family name of each person that gets it written on it. We actually got pretty lucky this year. Hubby got for me a set of 4 brass angel candle holders that are beautiful. He had a really cool nutcracker that was decked out in Camo, but it got stolen from him… Darn! Silver_Fangz was pulling for me and ended up with a huge (size 11-13) yellow rubber flippers. LOL — you should have seen her face! Another friend though ended up trading her some foot cream and Christmas Charm bracelet for the flippers for her friend — who wants to do some snorkeling and is a big guy… too funny.
The laughs abounded as huge guys got chests filled with Tinkerbell cosmetics, homemade CD’s with guys songs written songs, A container of kitty litter (clean thank goodness), and package of crackers and wives got things like rubber chickens… it was a lot of fun and we enjoyed it tremendously! I love White Elephant gift exchanges! It’s a fun way to exchange presents, as long as every one has a good sense of humor!
So all in all is was a good party and fun was had by all.
Mele Kalikimaka!!
Comments (3)
that is neat about the gifts exchange it sounds really fun and lots of laughs!Wanted to wish ya a Very Merry Christmas!!
and about this time of year a good laugh is in order. The party sounds like fun. My husband was also attatched to a det while in the navy (rather than a ship). I don’t think they had Christmas parties, but they did have a bbq once with all the officers. We felt so outclassed-hah! I remember knowing noone, and feeling so out of place. Your party sounds like fun.
Merry Christmas to you as well!
Enjoy this beautiful evening………….blessings…………..:wave: