If you are Christian then you know that yesterday was Jesus’ birthday, and if you’re the average person, you celebrated by buying and receiving gifts for everybody EXCEPT Jesus (because he’s dead, you see). My family fits in this category. I don’t really celebrate holidays anymore (including christmas, my birthday, etc), but I do enjoy buying gifts for my family. My rule of thumb is that the gift has to mean something. It means a lot more if there was thought put behind it. That said, I was given the corniest gift ever this year (literally), and I loved it.
There is a little backstory to this gift which I need to explain first. Dharti once called me up while I was eating. When asked what I was masticating, I replied, in between bites, that I was eating cream corn from the can. I know, I know, I’m bizarre but CORN = BEST VEGETABLE EVAR! Kids back in college thought I was poor since my lunch sometimes consisted of cans of veggies, but it was a regal meal to me.
Anyways, Dharti found this weird (as does everybody else who hears/sees me eating this) and it became a common joke between us over time. Enter Christmas. She gave me a gift basket with several wrapped items. I had to guess what they were, and I was totally confused. I figured one of them was a cd, but that was about it. To my surprise, it was the corniest gift basket ever. Every item, was literally corn related. The only thing missing was a unicorn, but they’re mystical animals and I’m allergic to horses. She said that she had some help from her friends with ideas, but I was mighty impressed by the overall idea.
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