Holiday Edition

So this is Christmas.

And tis the season, to part-ay!

Well seriously folks, Christmas is about giving. It's about giving the best dollar store gifts you can find, just like those three wise people that gave baby Jesus a novelty shot glass and a travel sized version of boggle.

In the spirit of the season I climbed into my car and headed to Chuck and Colleen's first annual Christmas/beer pong/Walter's birthday celebration extravaganza. And not unlike the wisemen and the star of David, I followed winter storm warning all the way to the party. Well I guess it really wasn't like the star of David at all, I just like parallels and metaphors, lots of metaphors.

When I arrived I drank a joyous holiday punch out of a tub, well a tub nearly the size of a bathtub. Talk about festive. It was enough to put anybody on the floor, but not before forming a few obscene sentences with those fun words people seem to put on their refrigerator. You'd be suprised how quickly you can make an R rated sentence out of G rated words.

For the gift exchange I bought the dollar store sized version of "Hungry Hungry Hippos" and a can of sardines, you know for the really hungry hippos. That and they were a whole 59 cents. 59 cents isn't even money, it's practically a novelty, just like any other amount of money under 75 cents. Why 75 cents? It just seems like the proper cut off. I was lucky, my friend Drew got my gift. That man appreciates a fine sardine. And if we ended up snowed in well we'd all have a great lunch with those sardines.

I scored some sweet swag myself. Walter wound up being my secret santa. I received a cap gun, a real slinky, some silly putty and a deck of cards. Talk about a great collection.

After that we reconvened to the living room and watched one great movie to keep us in the holiday spirit, "28 Days Later."

I passed out, and it wasn't even on the floor. The best part was I didn't even leave my shoes on, I've never been so proud.

They say getting home is half the fun, well in this case it's nearly half the story. So I may have to save that for another time.