October 2009 Weddings
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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Office Gifts
I think we talked about this last year but what are your thoughts on gifts for co-workers? I made pumpkin butter for everyone two years and baked something last year (I forgot what! How sad is that!?). This year we're totally food-ed out in this office (long story) so I really don't want to do food gifts. What do you do for office gifts? Any ideas for inexpensive gifts?
Re: Office Gifts
DH and I went to the Christkindlmarkt in downtown Chicago last week. Basically, it's an outdoor market in Daley Plaza that is a replica of a similar market in Germany (...I want to say Nuernberg.) There's booths set up with traditional german wares (beer steins, wood cuts, blown glass, ornaments, etc.) and lots of german food. I got each of my teammates a glass tea light holder.
For the rest of the department, I'm making a cheesecake, putting it in our kitchenette, and letting them graze on it.
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We do a Secret Santa, so we just have to buy for one person (and it's totally optional if you want to participate, so there's no pressure). I got two wintery mugs from Kohls and a matching serving dish. I'm going to fill the mugs with hot chocolate stuff and then make some oatmeal cookie sandwiches that I found a recipe for and fill the dish up.
Then we have a pot luck lunch sometime during the week of Christmas, it's fun!
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I work with too many people to think about getting them gifts... there's about 30 of us, so there's no way I could afford anything, even small gifts for everybody. I also don't bake, so I'm not doing anything for them!
As an office, we donate toys to needy kids, so I guess that's Christmas gifts to each other?