Okay, so if I want to be technical, it’s the second best e-mail of the holidays so far.  The first one dropped a famous name and had me dancing around my living room like an 11-year-old girl who was just told Edward is real and wants to bite her.

I do the majority of my Christmas shopping online because I am a) lazy, b) stymied into absolute indecision by the time/space constraints of stores, and c) lazy.  So usually once or twice a season, at least, I get an email response back from an online store that they are out of stock of something-or-other.  Today, I received this (gift name changed to protect those slated to receive such gift who may stumble upon this website):

Subject: Small problem with your order - please reply
Hi and thank you so much for your order.

Unfortunately, we don’t have the {thingamajig} in green/square. They are labeled as such by the manufacturer, but in putting them in your box we noticed that they were in fact either not green or not square.

What we have are:
Square: 2 pink, 2 orange
Round: 1 orange, 2 green, 3 pink

I am holding them all aside for you and will wait to see what you would like to do. You can either select different ones or keep them out of the order all together. Should you chose to replace them, please pick 4 instead of 3, the extra one is on us.

My response:

Can I ask that you just surprise me?  As long as I have ONE that’s not pink for my husband, I’m good to go.  I picked green/square because that was just the default, as I am the pits at decisions such as these.

Um…

Fine, so now that I have it all here, it’s not really as funny as it seemed at first, but you know what?  That’s all I got.  Unless you want to see the 30 minute video of The G drawing 9 names out of a hat for our Family Christmas Name Draw.  And, really, that’s just so not worth it.  Because 28 minutes of it is me saying, ““G?  G!  Focus!  Draw!  Wait, no, don’t feed the names to the dog!  Hang on.  Woo hoo!  Can you come back and stand on your stool, baby?  Here, I really need your help!”