Wanderlust

Coporate Xmas Party

We went to my company's xmas party at this really really really fancy hotel in the middle of Salt Lake City. The hotel was so fancy that it had an expensive clothes store near the main lobby with ceramic Labrador dogs guarding the entrance to the store. The food was really good. What was stupid was that there was a dance troupe called acclamation that did this xmas holiday sing and dance thing. I won't give any other details because a: it was fucking stupid, b: I don't even want to talk about it anymore.

What really made think that the whole thing was totally stupid was that I got a gift. At my company's summer and winter parties, they hand out gifts like door prizes. They draw names from a bowl and call out who won. DVD's, DVD players, CD players, nice watches, plates, popcorn popper, and a fucking stupid- ass Clay Aikens CD of xmas music. Well, as you can see from the picture on the right, I won the CD. If you don't know who he is, that is probably a good thing. Let's just say, commercialism?

When I was growing up and imagined working for a company, I never ever thought I would go to such a stupid xmas party. Maybe I am expecting too much. Don't get me wrong, it was nice to see people away from work with their significant other. The food was good, but it the whole thing just seemed really cheesy. Plus the drinks were $4.5 and up! Of course not many people actually drank because, well.... drinking's bad...mmmkay?

I think I might burn the CD in effigy to help heat the house. We've been using the wood stove as our only source of heat for over two weeks now and that CD would provide a good extra 5 minutes. Seems worth it to me....