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[apocalypsos]

Oh, I forgot to mention that when my parents came yesterday, they brought belated Christmas presents from my aunt and uncle.

My aunt, who has only known I existed for about six years now and has only seen me in person about three times, got me a very nice dark purple shirt that is both exactly my style and just the right color. (My aunt Carolyn is both awesome and gorgeous. Seriously. Closest celebrity resemblance ... Heather Locklear. Her eyes are a little larger, but still. PRETTY.)

My uncle, who's known me since I was born and is also my godfather, got me a fifty-dollar gift certificate for Fashion Bug, which I'm grateful for, but the nearest Fashion Bug to me right now is a bitch to get to and I don't even shop at Fashion Bug, anyway.

I should point out that my aunt is my aunt through the grandfather who's only known me for about six years and already knows that I'd much rather have DVDs, electronic toys or clothes, but that I only trust my mother, my cousin Laurie, and maybe five of my aunts to know my style well enough to buy me clothes. My uncle is my uncle through the grandfather and grandmother whom I love, but they drive me nuts and buy me presents that make me wonder whether they've ever actually met me, whereas they buy my nineteen-year-old cousin gift certificates to Old Navy. *headdesk*

*sigh* I guess I'll have to wait until I go home for vacation to spend this, then.

Comments

[justydrink.livejournal.com]

I seem to recall a website where you can exchange gift cards for ones you would actually use. Can't remember the name, but maybe someone else here would know?

[jjloa.livejournal.com]

This isn't just one - it mentions a bunch ... but I have a similar problem with relatives (though at least the gift certificate ones are better than the ones that buy me stuff I wouldn't wear if you paid me ...), so a friend sent me this article:

http://www.wired.com/news/ebiz/0,1272,66151,00.html

Compares a couple of sites as well as telling you what each of them charges ...

[callmesyd.livejournal.com]

Lucky you with the badass Locklearaunt. I am envious of your shirt. Purple roolz. :O

The two closest celebrity resemblances in my family are Adam Sandler (Uncle Peter it is SERIOUSLY eerie) and Jamie Lee Curtis (Aunt Sarah and again with the HOLY CRAP). All I've got going for me, as far as I know, is that kid from the old Encyclopedia commercials when I wear wireframe glasses, and otherwise, Jim Bruer's eyes. I look perpetually exhausted and/or stoned. ;_;

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Let's see ... I've got my uncle Eddie who looks like Adam Sandler, my cousin Laurie who looks like Gilda Radner, my dad who looks like Homer Simpson, and my uncle Vinnie who looks like Colin Quinn from SNL. We need better celebrity lookalikes in my family. ;)

[callmesyd.livejournal.com]

Nothing is better than your family's own personal Gilda Radner, though! (Except maybe having her be married to your family's own personal Gene Wilder.)

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

What makes it even better is that she acts exactly like her, too, but God forbid you point that out. (The same goes for my dad and the Homer Simpson comparison.)