Christmas Time

The last two months at work were hectic, lots of work and responsibilities. Think of all the possible reasons you can. The most important is that its the retail season, and therefore, advertisers had been gearing up since September. I realized how my advertisers get worked up since September, rationing up their sites, putting things on clearance, revamping their sites with offers galore, and asking me to create new campaigns for the festive season. Its a lot of fun, trust me, with the varieties of products on sale. They sell products which are so dear to a woman's heart, in fact, everything that a woman will love, right from flowers, cards, gift items (most of which are of no use), jewelry, designer clothes, non-designer clothes, fashion accessories etc. You name it, you get it.

This advertising mayhem involving me lasts till mid December, when most of the accounts are supposed to be well laid out and ready to take on the New Year shopping too. By mid December, advertisers too are happy with the sale of things, and most of them are out vacationing, which means allowing me to be lazy. :)

And so I'm now- lazy with not much advertising work to do.

So, let me tell you about Christmas fever at office. We have teams for each vertical and each team has around 15 members. Come Christmas, I found the teams were gearing up for some real fun. Most of the teams were high on a game Secret Santa, in which, each team member has an incognito Santa who leaves gifts surreptitiously at our desks until Christmas. Each one gets a Santa and is a Santa too. Its great fun getting gifts and wondering, 'Who is my Secret Santa?' On around 23 Dec, the cats are let out of the bags with big gifts. The Santas reveal their identity and also give nice gifts.

Some teams also had another traditional way of celebrating. They have their own christmas trees all decorated with the jazz pizzazz as usual. On 23 December, each team member brings a gift and places it on or under the tree. The entire team then meets and each one picks up a gift. I pity anyone who has got the same gift that he/she had brought.

All these enliven the atmosphere at office. People dress up with fancy. I found some looking like Christmas tress with all kinds of blings and danglers on them! On the last day of work before Christmas, we had awesome snacks organized by the facilities team, loads of programs and gifts from the office too. I was so happy to get a Swiss knife among other gifts.

Overall, Christmas is great at work.

At home, I've been thinking of baking my first cake, however, things didnt happen. I'll try something else, maybe some Indian sweets to compensate for it. And I'll nag Sandeep to get some rich plum and fruit cakes from the market. :)

Merry Christmas to All you readers!