Today was the day to get the office gifts finished once and for all. This is a category of Christmas shopping that drives me nuts. It’s not a cut and dried kind of thing. It’s hard to know where you draw the line for office gift exchanging. The only thing you can be sure of is, someone who you haven’t got a gift for will give you one.

That wasn’t too big a problem for the last few years. I was the receptionist and everyone gives the receptionist something. The receptionist is not expected to reciprocate in most cases. As of late Wednesday afternoon I stopped being the receptionist and am now in the accounting department, at least temporarily. This is all good. It involves a raise and an office for as long as it lasts. But I’m completely out of synch in the gift category.

I don’t mind giving up the Christmas gifts that the receptionist gets, except maybe for that really nice American express check that one of them gives me each year. Overall though, I’m over gifts, especially if it means that I don’t get the silverplated snowman tray from one particular supervisor for a third year in a row. Nothing says, “I don’t give a shit.” like silverplate, unless it’s the same silverplate gift as the year before. I can’t use anymore spa gifts either. I don’t use them at all as a matter of fact.

I don’t think I did a great job of choosing gifts for my co-workers either this year. It seems like my brain is on hold this year. Or I just didn’t have it in me to keep going to places until I saw just the right thing. I hereby resolve that next year I will figure out who gets gifts and start looking for them by August. Or even better, order them over the internet.

In between holiday tasks I’m redesigning my son’s band’s site and trying to reign in this baby shower. I promised to start the new project for the old client right after the shower. And of course, I have to learn the new job. Personally, I’d be more than happy to just hang out in my little corner of the world and blog. I need to get less of a life.