My brother and I have this tradition where we try to give each other the worst Christmas presents possible. And if you haven’t been following along, we’ve basically turned White Elephant into a serious art.
I told my brother that I needed more decorations for my new house… This is the present that arrived on my doorstep:
A giant wall decal of two seniors I don’t know riding a golf cart…
Meanwhile in Utah, my brother opened a personalized calendar, meticulously made with love and care by his dear, dear sister. Merry Cringemas Bro.
Here’s a video I made of our Christmas Morning. Enjoy.
Have you ever seen the movie Pure Luck? Because let me tell you… this move to Arizona has been some of the worst luck I’ve ever had. It’s been so ridiculous in fact that you wouldn’t believe it unless I made a comprehensive list.
So here you are:
We got a late start getting out on the road because one of our drivers disappeared at Walmart for an hour
U-haul’s system went out nationally and double charged us for the trailer
Car’s AC went out as soon as we hit Mesquite
We tried to see Hoover dam. It was closed.
Our other car wasn’t put on the trailer correctly and almost fell off in the middle of the desert
Our credit card stopped working because of the unusual location even though we informed the bank we were moving
Got to the Air BnB late, misunderstood where the entrance was and got chewed out all day for trying to break in
Got locked out of our own gated community as we were trying to move in
Brought an air mattress for our helpers… didn’t bring an air pump
Got two replacement mattresses and a pump… that pump was broken
The flight we purchased for our helpers was delayed like three hours. Didn’t know about it until after they had gone through security
Someone in our building was smoking and it was blowing into our apartment
It took 4 trips to the DMV to get registration done because of random misunderstandings
Caterpillars keep crawling in through the bottom of our front door 🤷🏻
Our pool turned green
Jack had diarrhea for the first week
And then because of the diarrhea Jack had bad diaper rash the second week
I spent like 15 minutes picking out the most gentle face wash/moisturizer I could find at the store. I was allergic to it.
Dan’s bike got stolen off our porch
After fixing the AC we took our car to get tint put on the windows and our MECHANIC’S car broke down and he couldn’t get to it until the next day
We went to three different restaurants because we had gift cards. NONE OF THE GIFT CARDS WORKED
The ONE thing I was madly pregnancy craving does not exist here in AZ
The radiator in the OTHER CAR broke down
And literally as I was typing up this list, Dan came in to tell me that the plug on my laptop just SPARKED and EXPLODED. So I’m trying to write this post on my phone.
This probably all sounds made up. IT’S NOT. Hopefully, a meteor isn’t about to fall on us. Um… Help?
You know that person that never wants or needs anything so they’re impossible to buy for? That’s my brother. I never know what to get him, so instead we came up with a beautiful Christmas tradition…
To try and get each other the worst Christmas presents possible.
Here is what I managed to get my brother this year:
An instructional DVD of how to become a Mary Kay consultant
A VHS of the classic hit “Crawlers”
Party Cheetos
Pete the Repeat Parrot, which is a repeat gift of something that we treasured(?) from our childhood.
An outdated Algebra textbook for a class he’ll never take
A Blockbuster membership card
Here’s what he got me:
Fist of all this is the box it came in.
A DVD to entertain our cats when we’re away… we do not own a cat
A buttload of expired groceries from my mom’s food storage (that I was told he wrapped the day of)
… Also dehydrated water (which my mom demanded back for some reason? Not pictured.)
