Usually when Bella, the mail lady here at The Spoil, comes around to deliver me my packages I get all in a huff. Don't get me wrong, I like Bella. She's like the universal grandmother to everyone here at The Spoil, but when she shows up at my desk all Russian and stuff it means that I have to drop everything, look at the 349753497593457 packages she has for me, make sure the numbers match and then sign my serial killer signature to her list.
It's all kiiiind of a process. And besides, the packages are chock-full of tubes with orifices, or color matches, or ugly square packaging. So nothing really worth my while.
But all that changes after Turkey Day.
Oh yes my friends, due to my charming nature and just all around fabulousness I get the most kick ass gifts from my vendors for the holidays. (And you all know how I looooove presents!!!)
Come Monday the 27th, I'll start getting an influx of chocolaty covered cookies with exotic nuts, and rum filled treats that, while intoxicating, help me get through the work day. Last year one of my really good contacts sent me a gigantic bottle of Grey Goose vodka that was as big as my head.
"Treat others as you want to be treated," my mother always said and it has proven true. From this time until the beginning of January I'll be showered with all sorts of presents. Richart chocolates! Pretty calendars! (I have four different ones hanging on my walls at work), Italian lemon bunt cakey things! Round expensive tins full of Christmas cookies! One vendor even sends out a huge box full of the fixings to wrap gifts with: tape, paper, bows...the works! I mean it definitely is a perk, albeit a perk only lasting 6 weeks. But still! Its fun and it takes my mind off of the 2957394573947539457 pieces of late artwork that needed to be released 4 weeks ago.
I'll keep you posted on my present status. If you think my desk is a mess now wait until the middle of December.
Do other people at The Spoil get the same kind of treatment? Sure. But they don't have a blog site.
And not to worry. I'm very good at sharing my treats (erm..), so if you happen to be in the know and/or run with my crowd you'll be rewarded handsomely.
But the vodka, I'm keeping that for myself.