Saturday was quite the mad social whirl! After visiting with Chris, I went to John and Paula’s to celebrate Yule. We had a potluck dinner and a gift exchange.
I must confess that I never know what to get. I browsed at Barnes and Noble and found a divination/pendulum game called The Truth Fairy, which struck me as somewhat funny and vaguely appropriate. I am crappy at wrapping stuff, so I looked for a gift bag. I saw a pink bag with fake fur fringe along the top. I figured that as long as I was going camp, why not go all out?
My friend Peter was working the desk and we chatted on the way out. He said that I had probably managed to find the foofiest item that they had in the entire store.
After John and Paula’s, I scooted over to another Pagan party in Fairview, which was fun. I had just missed the gift exchange there. Both parties used the same game. Everyone gets a random number and the first person picks a gift from the pile, and then each succeeding person can either open a new gift, or take a gift from someone who has already opened one, and then the person gets to open a new gift from the pile.
Interestingly, the second party that I went to tends to have a fair amount of gift stealing, but John and Paula’s party didn’t have any! It is fascinating how the same game can run completely different with a change in people. When I was at Jim and Greg’s a while ago, we played the game Psychiatrist with straight folks, the questions that people came up with to ask were very mild when contrasted when it was all gay men playing. (Basically, one person asks a question of the other players. The only rule is that the person asking the question has to figure out what the rules of the game are.)
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