Hypocrite

So I imagine that everyone has been a hypocrite at one time or another. Or at least I start this post off by saying that to make me feel better. I recently had an experience where I was a TOTAL HYPOCRITE, and within a very short period of time. This past New Year's Eve our little family was invited to friends house for a celebration. The food, company, and atmosphere was incredibly fun. We all had a great time. The first game of the evening was a white elephant exchange.

Now I have always had a difficult time with these because they never seem to turn out right. Doesn't it seem like you can never get everyone on the same page? Some people bring nice stuff and some silly stuff. Some times people just bring crap that is neither funny or fun. So these are always a bit of a stress for me. Just the week before Jeff's work had an exchange and there was a $30 base which helped. Jeff wanted to go fun, so he bought $30 worth of bathroom cleaning supplies. Silly but at the end of the day you wouldn't feel jipped, everyone should clean their bathroom more often. He picked up a Blue Ray copy of Inception. He said only one loser brought a dud gift.

So here I am at the party discussing my reservations about white elephants and how I hate the people who can't have fun and really fight over a gift or get their feelings hurt. HA! So Jeff and I brought some cheap gifts that had been sitting around in the closet for awhile. Someone brought a complementary airplane travel kit. Another gift was homemade jam, and someone else brought a leftover youth conference tshirt and wristband, (genius!) Then it happened. A lovely friend of mine brought a brand new bottle of COCO MADEMOISELLE by Chanel! SERIOUSLY! First of all this is a super expensive perfume, so props to her for not selling it on craigslist. Secondly, this is my favorite perfume. NO LIE! Not that I owned any cause it was too expensive. I only seem to have it in me to own one really nice perfume at a time. (This causes me a small amount of stress and confusion because I only wear perfume on two occasions, for church and for "romantic times," as you can imagine I do not like that these two occasions smell the same. Bad association.)

So long story short, I was not on my best behavior. It did not get ugly at all, but that was because everyone in the room could have cared less, and I suspect they all knew that I was the type of girl to make things ugly. You know like the type of girl I was just talking about at the beginning of the post. Yup, I am a hypocrite, but at least I smell really good.