Polo and I love to give Christmas presents. It's just plain fun to come up with something you know the person will love and to see the smile on their faces when they open it up. So every year we like to buy or make (if we're feeling crafty) presents for our friends, professors and family. This year may have the been the best one as far as our presents go.
I'll start off with what Polo and I got for each other: Polo got me the card game version of Dirty Minds (which is just hilarious by the way, I recommend it!) and I got a Navy SEALs calendar and the Act of Valor book for Polo. We both loved our presents!
Polo here, I really LOVE my gifts. I have been loving seeing the new month pictures. As for the book... it took me a bit to get through because life is crazy but I finally finished it. It was incredible! Very well written and even knowing what would happen from the movie the book had me tearing up. I strongly suggest getting a copy, or if you're too unimaginative or lazy to read a book, watch the movie (also a masterpiece).
For our roommate Tex we got Squidward's house from Spongebob as an aquarium decoration. Tex LOVES Spongebob. There's been some updates to the hobo house fishtank too so keep an eye out for a post about that. Currently in our fishtank we have Spongebob's house (a pineapple!) and a miniature Spongebob. Now we have Squidward's house too, soon Tex will be able have the whole collection!
We like give presents to our professors in the Chemistry Department. They have to put up with us and all our crap during school term. We basically live in some of their offices... This year I would say that Polo and I outdid ourselves with our presents that we gave to the Lord of the Benzene Ring (LotBR), Kilo, Chief, La Catedratica and Dr. Mom.
- Kilo is the lab manager in the dept and frequently deals with Polo and I sitting in her office. Due in part to the giant bowl of candy on her desk but mostly because she's just plain awesome. Kilo has a collection of nerdy bumper stickers on the door to her office. 'Honk if you passed PChem' and 'Old chemists don't die, they just reach equilibrium' just to name a few. Polo and I made two new additions to Kilo's nerdy bumper sticker collection.
- The Lord of the Benzene Ring (LotBR) is our other favorite organic professor whose favorite saying is probably 'There's no crying in Organic Chemistry!'. Polo and I got him some aptly chosen nerdy magnets for his bookshelf. Don't beat yourself up if you don't get the second one, it's some serious nerd humor (Google is your friend).
- La Catedratica got a combination present from Polo and I this year; part Christmas, part baby present! Yay! This combination present was three nerdy onsies, personally designed by Polo and I because we just know that baby is going to be nerdy.
- Chief is the dept secretary (the real brains behind the operation) and she happens to LOVE pigs. So of course Polo and I had to include pigs in her present. This year, Polo and I tried our hand at making homemade snowglobes (thanks Pinterest!) and Chief was the first victim of our attempt. We made her a snowglobe with two plastic pig figures inside, except the end result looked more like a glitter explosion in a mason jar than a snowglobe....whoops. Oh well, she still loved it!
- We learned our lesson from Chief's snowglobe when we made one for Dr. Mom, a little glitter goes a long way... A VERY long way (it looks like a glitter bomb went off in my room, I'm still finding glitter in weird places). Dr. Mom loves snowglobes, a fact Polo and I stumbled upon last year when we got her a picture snowglobe that you could record sayings on. So this year we figured the only way we could beat last years was to make a snowglobe. Instead of being filled with pigs like Nucleus', the snowglobe we made for Dr. Mom was filled with various things we may or may not have pilfered from the labs (Shhhhhhh...) including colored eppy tubes and test tubes filled with colored sugar. It was the nerdiest snowglobe I've ever seen and sorta looked like a couple of 6 year olds made it (which is actually sorta fitting for Polo and I...)
Clearly Polo and I are just a little bit nerdy in our Christmas present giving but could you really expect anything else? Even though it's way past the season, let us know how you spread holiday cheer (nerdy or not!) by dropping a comment!
Happy Belated Holidays! And as always, Stay Nerdy!
-Marco
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