I Suck At Silly Swaps

Tonight, my friends held our annual silly swap. Too bad I suck at silly swaps.

In conjunction with the silly swap, we also celebrated my friends' (Garv and Leeann) birthdays, both of whom were born in the month of January. January is the last month of our friend/birthday cycle. The cycle runs August to January, where each month contains the birthday of one of my friends. November is actually the only month in the cycle that no longer has a celebratory birthday boy/girl.

Anyway, my friends (Marc and Kelley) invited everyone over for taco night. In addition to the birthday people of the month, joining in on the festivities were my friends (Cass, Ellen, and Andrea) and my BFF (Kerry).

Needless to say, tonight was a blast. I had a great time hanging out with everyone. And as usual, the food was delicious. As for the silly swap itself, tonight's gifts were pretty funny. I ended up with a photo calendar of my slow descent into inebriation during Garv and Leeann's wedding.

It seems like Karen's gift was quite the hit as well. Karen made coasters with certain celebrities on them. Garv was quite giddy to use the Taylor Swift coaster. Of course, he was quite ecstatic about his silly swap gift as well: a Taylor Swift DVD. Technically, the gift was taken from him, but Ellen was kind enough to give it to him at the end.

Among some of the other discussions that came about during the course of the night were Andrea's desire to go to Target before her vacation, Garv's sickness/internal bleeding (it wasn't internal bleeding), flu shots, Kelley's "list", Garv's request for coasters (of Taylor Swift, Brad Paisley, Connie Britton, and Stephen Colbert), and Kerry's sad stocking gifts.

It definitely was a comical night, especially since most of us were practically brain-drained tonight with Kerry spilling water... everywhere... and Leeann dropping her taco. Plus, all of us watched some Jaboody Dubs which is always good for a laugh or two. I'm definitely lucky to have such good friends.

I Suck At Christmas Songs

With the holidays looming right around the corner, a lot of Christmas songs are slowly making it to the airwaves... in the mall... and in retail stores. For the most part, the songs are usually the same Christmas songs that you hear every hear.

Now, I suck at Christmas songs. I stumbled upon this Christmas song today and it made me chuckle. Of course, the song also made me think about my friend (Garv). For anyone curious, the song is called "Merry Swiftmas" by Evan Taubenfeld and is about Taylor Swift. And for anyone still curious, Garv is a big Taylor Swift fan... a big big fan. If I didn't know any better, I would say that Garv is attracted to shiny objects like me.

(The video below is the "Merry Swiftmas" song.)


So enjoy! I actually like the song. I hope the song gets played more often during the holidays.