Best and worst gifts

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I'm a fairly easy person to give gifts to. Give me something even slightly useful or unique and I'm a happy camper. Though I'm difficult to really impress with gifts. The flip side to that is that I'm also hard to disappoint. Did anyone else get any spectacular or spectacularly awful gifts this year?

I'll start with the awful. This was actually a gift to Michael from a coworker. It's a book called The Tao of Meow. It's supposed to be written by a cat. It's basically a book of really awful poems about or by cats that are supposed to give you direction or meaning in your life. Really really awful poems. I have you people to thank for it, too. Michael sent this coworker a few funny pics from Kitty Pics thread and I suppose she thinks we're cat freaks or something. We don't even own a cat. Not that a cat lover would like this horrible poetry though. (Of course, Michael is grateful that this coworker took the time to get him a gift, etc.)

For the wonderful I have two gifts. The first is a bunch of cards given to me by a friend. I usually hate cards. They are so lame. These, however, are fantastically unique. Each one has art on the front that is somewhat weird and almost grotesque in some cases, and the sayings are far from typical. Some are quotes from Einstein and the likes, and some say cool things like:

Originally Posted by greeting card

Guilt promenades its rotund ass across my unusually broad shoulders, rebeling in the ample room they provide. Yet instead of dissuading it with a jarring shrug or even a disruptive twitch, I stand perfectly still...glad to be of assistance.

or this one:

Originally Posted by another greeting card

I really need to know. I'm stretched again, but my resilience is long gone and I can't bounce back. It's tiresome dragging around the excess, yet I'm unsure whether it's safe to cut it off. What if it houses my essence, or the directional portion of my id?

Nearly every person I send these to will think it very odd at best. I love that. These cards are so fantastic. I'm going to send them all out in the year to come. One of the most perfect gifts I've ever gotten. This person is a seriously talented gift giver.

The other fantastic gift I got was a photo collage from Michael and Indi. They snuck off to Michael's work to print the photos so I wouldn't know. Indi picked them out and they worked together to glue them onto a painting of a family tree that they did together. They managed to pull it off as a complete surprise too (I'm extremely hard to surprise). If I were the crying type, I'd have cried. I think this makes it to the very top of the list as the best gift I've ever gotten. Even though they did pick one picture of me that I really hate. The best gifts in life really are free.