TAN #190: YanTAN sneaky Ironpants ... (Page 8)

I've been to two other White Elephant Parties (both in the Corps) and at both, the gifts were so bad that they would easily land you in an HR/Sexual Harrassment Lawsuit situation in the civilian world.

Tony, White Elephant Parties are parties where everyone brings a gift that nobody would really ever want.  A White Elephant in India is considered so sacred and so valuable that you can't sell it, can't ride it, can't make it work.  So it just eats and you have to keep it.  If one is born to you, it is a blessing and a curse.  That's the story as it was told to me by an Indian so I believe it.

Being as how I'm still kinda new in my company, I wanted to go with something safe, but that is secretly awesome.  Like a mug (great call Meh) but with a gift certificate inside to Starbucks so everyone's like "a mug, ok, who's the cheapskate?" and then when they open and see the gift cert, everyone's like "WOW! That's great!"

 ETA- Oh, and no, the party isn't today.  But if you find out where, I'll show-up and drink their beer...

or having to put those cryptic number and letter combos in!  Those things are impossible sometimes!

Tony you've never heard of a white elephant party? White elephant gift? Weirdo.

Hiya TAN! I survived South Beach. Barely. 

teejay...i made the awesomest paleo crockpot meatballs the other day.

then i served them with brown rice.

check out these awesome recipes:  www.paleopot.com

HEY!

Welcome Back!  Did you go broke? 

STORIES PLEASSSSE

Was that for your cookie and wine party that you still haven't told us about? Or your friend/friend hookup that you also haven't told us about?  Gossip, us girls want to hear the details!

no the balls were for me and mr meh last night.

cookies and wine was a huge success - approx 200 cookies made and i drank 2 bottles of white and passed out about 8:30 pm.

and the friend/friend date...nobody is talking about what went on that night....i'm still trying to find out.  we had a lot of fun out - they went to dinner alone beforehand and she stayed at his house instead of coming back to mine - but i have no freakin clue.

I don't know about FULL stories, but some tidbitties:

Thursday night dinner at restaurant where friends knew owner. Resulting in fabulous seating, service and free stuff.

Friday was boardwalk run, beach, some clothing optional sightings, some EYE CANDY sightings. Then to the graffiti artist area which was amaze-balls, then to Art Miami (hurty feet!), then to Brady's show's opening reception (hurty feet!), then to dinner and club with live music/DJ (hurty feet!). Don't remember a whole lot after dinner but I know it was fun

Saturday sleep in, brunch with friends and fabulous people watching, head to the Aqua Show (hurty feet!) and then to Art Basel (hurty feet!). After a "disco nap" we headed to dinner on Ocean Drive (hurty feet!) - pretty sure we sat a few feet away from Scarlett Johansson, then to a hotel rooftop swimsuit fashion show (hello!), then out to some club for the rest of the night. 

I'm exhausted and my feet still hurt! 

you need to start training brady to give you goot rubs at the end of the day!!!  haha.

and a rooftop swimsuit fashion show in december...just sounds awesome.

What's a Goot Rub?  I need to learn that one too...

wow, typo city, my bad,

and yes, something had to have happened or she would have talked about how nothing happened...

A radio station down here was going ape over the use of "your" vs "you're" this morning so I feel the need to point out that you were correcting a typo with a grammatical error of your own...

But you're from Texas, so I'll forgive you.

Um, I think you meant to say "morOn" as opposed to morAn.....