Presents for (almost) everyone

It's that time of the year: Christmas time at the office. Time to give out presents and feel really awkward when you receive a gift from someone you didn't buy a present for in return. It doesn't fail to happen every year. I seem to say "I didn't think she/he would of gotten me a gift" or "They got me something? Crap!". I only say that because I hate not getting something for someone who got me a gift. It's awkward and just not fun. But I did get a few things for my co-workers and the people I who are more than just co-workers to me.

The first gift below in the Disney princess bag is for my closest friend at work, Celeste. She has been with me through heartbreak, anxiety, fear of joblessness, and so much more . I didn't think we were exchanging gifts this year as money is tight, but she got me a very cute Hello Kitty coffee mug and car freshener. So I decided to get her a little something.

I got her two candles with a cupcake sleeve and a cross bracelet. A lot of the gifts I'm giving this year are things I've had for months so it was nice not having to fork over a ton of money all at once for presents. The bracelet is one I actually bought for myself and that Cee has seen before, but it was freakishly small. And Cee has freakishly thin wrists so it made sense it go to her.

I also got some gifts for some other people I work with. Not everyone, but people who I am close with and also people who have already got me something. I wish everyone would do this in an office: give people gifts early in order to have time to return the gesture.

Cee and I decided to go half on all the gifts to save some money. And usually we do everything together so I don't think people were surprised. The small candle is for our associate manager and one of the large ones is for our regular manager, while the other two will be going to close associates, basically our good friends.

I got two other smsller gifts for two girls I work with on my own behalf. They are newer associates and I have really grown attach to them. These are just a small token of my appreciation for them and I hope they like them. But I didn't want the rest of my unit to feel out of the loop so I have a bunch of travel size lotions and mini candles I've had saved up for such occations so I will be giving those away as well. Glad to be using all these things for good use!