white elephants

Last night was Aaron's work party. Excellent food, gorgeous home and a bunch of stiff attorneys. Aaron lit up the party by bringing his bottle of Libido-Max for the white elephant exchange. It was hilarious! The guy who picked it, first shook the wrapped present and the pills rattled. He said, "Hmm. Sounds like a game!" The men teased each other about needing it and the wives were BEGGING someone else to steal it. That makes for a great party.

It was good for me to go and hang out with Aaron's co-workers. Before last night, I basically hated his firm :) I hope none of them are reading this, btw. But honestly, he's been working so much and I have really been struggling. I have a new baby and just wanted ONE day off. Anyway, they are all very cool people and we had a great time. I was glad to hear that Aaron is himself on the job. The secretaries said his alter-ego makes everyone laugh.. as if I didn't know Aaron thinks he's black. I told them next party needs to have dancing so they can see Aaron's moves.

I have several stories about Aaron's workplace that need to be written down, but because he hates when I write about him, I have to be careful. This story should be okay. One of the secretaries got a call from the courthouse trying to straighten out a record of who was at a certain hearing. They said they had a client named Aaron Shum-WHACKER. Aaron's secretary started going through all their client records and couldn't find anyone by that name. After searching high and low, she went into his office and asked if he knew a client named Aaron Shum-whacker. Aaron started laughing and thought she was messing around with him. But the secretary didn't get it (because it didn't register that it was an attorney, not a client.) Anyway, Aaron finally had to spell it out for her and said, "Duh! They are talking about ME!" Everyone thought it was funny and now he goes by Mr. Shum-whacker at the office....

All in all, it was a fun night out and we came away with some killer gifts. Aaron ended up with a Darth Vader bobble head (which we will re-wrap for our boys.) I got myself a leopard SNUGGIE-- with a book light. Score. Simon was the hit of the party with his striped Christmas outfit. The secretaries were fighting over him.

ps. have you seen this snuggie video? watch the top one first..

Sorry about the bad language.. it's too funny.

pps. are white elephant gift exchanges a Mormon thing? Several of the attorneys have never heard of them before.. anyway, just wondering