This holiday season came and went with out the usual jingle bell-induced trauma. I did all my present purchasing online, successfully avoided store shopping..avoiding lines, confusion, achy feet, sweaty armpits, and above all that obnoxious Christmas music. I left the Traveling Willberries CD in the car stereo all month long. A few days before Christmas Trevor found my cherished Harry Connick, Jr. holiday hits sound track. I listened to it twice, fulfilling my Christmas carol needs and retired it till next year.
This year I must have been very good because my adult Santa, Trevor, bought me an iPad.... I bought him a Forever Lazy.
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| --drawn on the iPad-- |
This season's gift-giving imbalances very closely mimicked that of Christmas 2009 when I bought Trevor his first iPhone and he bought me a knock-off Kmart snuggie....
Now we're even...
...And fully up to snuff as far as gadgets and cozy comfort-wear goes.
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| I call this one Forever Trevor |
I thought Trevor might get me and iPad but I wasn't sure. He was very sneaky about it. A couple months ago I received an e-mail with the subject line "Welcome to Your New iPad!!". I deleted it immediately because I didn't get a new iPad, so it surely must be spam. Then I remembered it's almost christmas. Trevor had asked me some questions on whether I thought the Kindle Fire was as good as the iPad. I have no idea. But that conversation clued me in to his thought prcoess. He would probably maybe get me a Kindle or some other type of tablet, touch screen gadget. After thinking about the e-mail and our previous conversation I started getting excited that maybe he DID get me an iPad. I still wanted it to be a surprise though.
About a week later I received another e-mail titled: "Your New iPad Awaits!" even though I said I wanted it to be a surprise I still couldn't resist. If Trevor had been home at the time I would have deleted the e-mail without reading it, but he wasn't, and I was curious... I couldn't resist... so I opened it... And it lead me to a porn website....Nope no iPad for me....
Leading up to Christmas day there were two presents for me under the tree. Both of them were about the size and shape of a box that could possibly contain iPad. I fiddled around with both of them when Trevor wasn't looking...One gift was definitely a box and the other one was definitely a book.
On Christmas day Trevor opens a few presents first. I didn't just get Trevor a forever lazy I also got him some socks, a new razor, and some other little knick knacks. He opens his gifts. I make some eggs. Then he says that I should open one.....The moment of truth....
I figure if the box does indeed contain an iPad, then he will give me the book first and save the good stuff for last. I will know immediately how my day is going to go based on which one he picks up first from under the counter (where we stored the presents for lack of a proper tree). He picks up the box....frown.... I accept that I am not getting a tablet... I open it up.... It's a book. I'm slightly bummed that I'm getting two books after this schizo build-up I've been working myself up into. He hands me the next present...the book. I open it up and it's one of his old school workbooks full of shredded pages. I have been tricked. And I recognize his trickery. He had chopped out the insides of it to hide my brand new baby iPad!
Nice work, T-rex....
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Another present sent to us by Trevor's parents was a characature that and old roommate drew of me a Trova back in the day....
I am pretty sure it was most likely inspired by these pictures...
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