@FrequentFader - do your thing!
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Kiddingā¦kidding. @lazyjk said it is on the way so hoping to share mine soon
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What is this ābeyond the sceneā caption?
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Limited Bobby Darin Gifās so just fixed it with the song link
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I fought the urge to theme the whole package around the beer barrel, but I didnāt want it to be completely lopsided in orange haha. Figuring throwing Levis in there was my slight Tennessee tie, via the Titans at least.
Congrats again on the new addition, and once the sleepless nights ease up, enjoy that brown water and relax.
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That grateful dead Christmas card is fucking sick.
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Awesome! Glad you liked it!
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Great stuff and attention to detail @dshaddy - the card, the handwritten note, the gift box, the wrapping paper. Pure class. I repurposed a fair amount of the packaging as a splash of class for @Big_RanDeer.
Looking forward to next year. Kudos to @lazyjk for running point on this!
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Well, since Scott is apparently the last guy thatās going to get his stuff, and since I didnāt include a note or anything, Iāll fess up to being his secret Santa. His stuff is on the truck for delivery right now. Well, except for one small gift for his dog that got missed while I was packing the box up, and thatāll go out Monday because I need to get a flat rate sleeve for it.
As for why it took so long; thereās a lot of reasons. Second weekend of November I turned 40, and on my birthday trip we came home with a new kitten, who absolutely rules, but who is also a fucking terrorist about 70% of the time and needs constant attention. Then I got Covid, but didnāt realize it was Covid until after Iād given it to my wife. Then I had some scary lingering side effects from it, that caused my doctor to be concerned about inflammation in my heart. Iād also ordered several items for him, and several for my wife, through Etsy, which meant getting bombarded with emails about what had been fulfilled and shipped and all that. One item for each of them was taking extra long and ended up saying it wouldnāt arrive until after Christmas, something I did communicate. In the deluge of emails about what had shipped, and dealing with my health stuff while also still having to go to work, I lost track of his last item, which says it had been dropped off at the post office, but hadnāt moved from there in nearly two weeks. I went to file a report about it and was immediately given a refund, so it seems it was a scam the whole time. So I had to scramble to fill in something extra for him. And lastly, his stuff got pushed back a day and a half because we never use our printer, so when I tried to print his label, it wouldnāt work and I had to wait for my wife to print it at work the next day.
All these excuses are to say I fucked up and let time slip away and Iām sorry. I tried to get him some cool stuff, and Iām not experienced with Etsy, so I probably made a bad choice or two. Iāll pay whatever penance I owe, but just understand I didnāt just not feel like getting shit done for him, or purposefully put it off until the last minute. It was just a weird confluence of things that I definitely wasnāt expecting
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I guess this joke would have made more sense if those pix were the senders rather than the recipients. I am a dumbass.
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No penance and looking forward to the gifts!
Hope you are feeling better! Health and family (pets) are more important than secret santa.
So no pitchforks and ā¦
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I appreciate it, man. And again, Iām really sorry you had to wait and worry. I was honestly hoping someone else would totally drop the ball and youād not be the last one. Delivery says sometime today for the box, and Iāll have the other thing to you next week
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Iām very glad Iām not the only one who refers to my cat this way
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I cannot think of any other way to describe a cat that walks on my face in the middle of the night, chases his two older sisters around and tackles them anytime they walk in the room, plays with anything he can find, including trash from the bathroom, and also occasionally does this
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Since @Conley76 preemptively outed himself Iām going to declare the 2023 Secret Santa another success!
145 participants this year was a new record (at least during my tenure) and (despite the disappointment this brings some people) we remain pitchfork free yet again.
Thanks everyone for participating and be sure to set your calendar reminders for early November to swing back by the thread to sign up!
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Appreciate you organizing and handling all the crap behind the scenes @lazyjk. Refuge secret Santa is the best part of Christmas every year. Always fun to see how creative everyone gets. Thanks for being our guiding light, our North Star, our secret Santa superintendent.
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Maybe next year someone finally gives out a GC Quad
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