{"id":3007,"date":"2010-12-21T10:25:40","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T14:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ontapfortoday.com\/?p=3007"},"modified":"2010-12-21T10:25:40","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T14:25:40","slug":"today-one-bad-ass-white-wrapper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ontapfortoday.com\/2010\/12\/21\/today-one-bad-ass-white-wrapper\/","title":{"rendered":"Today: One bad ass white wrapper."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[tweetmeme source=\u201delizabethev\u201d only_single=false] I usually don&#8217;t care much for secular Christmas music.\u00a0 Stupid <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dominick_the_Donkey\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Dominick the Donkey<\/em><\/a>, in particular, makes me want to poke my eardrums out with a miniature candy cane.\u00a0 I make an exception, however, for two very special jams: <em>Feliz Navidad<\/em> and <em>Christmas Wrapping<\/em>.\u00a0 The first reminds me of that old Sesame Street Christmas special where they all go ice skating, complete with the most muppetty <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crack_the_Whip\" target=\"_blank\">crack the whip<\/a> of all time.\u00a0 The latter is just plain awesome.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I mean it.\u00a0 <em>Christmas Wrapping<\/em> was made for sing-a-longs.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ARq6uYSsUq0&amp;fs=1&amp;hl=en_US]<\/p>\n<p>With just a few days to go until Jesus&#8217; birthday, I had a couple more presents to wrap.\u00a0 Last night, I cranked the Waitresses and got down to business.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3014\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3014\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ontapfortoday.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/12\/253.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3014\" title=\"Wrapping\" src=\"http:\/\/ontapfortoday.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/12\/253.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ontapfortoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/253.jpg 3888w, https:\/\/ontapfortoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/253-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ontapfortoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/253-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ontapfortoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/253-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3014\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Buy three rolls of Kraft paper at the beginning of the year.  Trust me on this.  You&#039;ll use it for birthdays, weddings, Flag Day, Christmas.  Very versatile.  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We had approximately 49 paint chips left from the Big Decision (not the Lebron James network special, the one where I had to decide between 16 shades of grey wall paint), so I put those to good use as gift tags.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3015\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3015\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ontapfortoday.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/12\/259.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3015\" title=\"259\" src=\"http:\/\/ontapfortoday.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/12\/259.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ontapfortoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/259.jpg 3888w, https:\/\/ontapfortoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/259-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ontapfortoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/259-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ontapfortoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/259-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3015\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thank you, Martha Stewart Paint.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>To jazz up the Kraft paper a bit, I added a few cinnamon sticks and pieces of coral and shells from one of my many <a title=\"Today: Put this in your pocket.  This,\u00a0too.\" href=\"https:\/\/ontapfortoday.com\/2010\/11\/29\/today-put-this-in-your-pocket-this-too\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cool Stuff<\/a> <a title=\"Today: Stingrays and lucha\u00a0libre.\" href=\"https:\/\/ontapfortoday.com\/2010\/12\/06\/today-sting-rays-and-lucha-libre\/\" target=\"_blank\">Explorations<\/a> in November.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3016\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3016\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ontapfortoday.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/12\/264.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3016\" title=\"264\" src=\"http:\/\/ontapfortoday.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/12\/264.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ontapfortoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/264.jpg 3888w, https:\/\/ontapfortoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/264-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ontapfortoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/264-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ontapfortoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/264-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3016\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I hope none of these people have x-ray vision. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I rounded out the evening by addressing our Christmas cards.\u00a0 With any luck, they&#8217;ll end up in your mailboxes sometime before next Christmas.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3017\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3017\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ontapfortoday.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/12\/254.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3017\" title=\"254\" src=\"http:\/\/ontapfortoday.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/12\/254.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ontapfortoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/254.jpg 3888w, https:\/\/ontapfortoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/254-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ontapfortoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/254-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ontapfortoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/254-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3017\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yes.  Those are Clark stickers.  And, yes.  I have mental problems.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When I started running low on adhesive Clarks, I contemplated using the mini-mes leftover from my emergency passport renewal.\u00a0 I am not sure how I ended up with so many photos of myself.\u00a0 Or why I kept them.\u00a0 Or how I made it through customs without being cast in the next vampire movie.<em> <\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3018\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3018\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ontapfortoday.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/12\/255.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3018\" title=\"255\" src=\"http:\/\/ontapfortoday.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/12\/255.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ontapfortoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/255.jpg 3888w, https:\/\/ontapfortoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/255-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ontapfortoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/255-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ontapfortoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/255-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3018\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I take the &quot;no smiling in your passport photo&quot; rule very seriously.  What a freak.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Almost all of my presents are now wrapped and resting beneath our tree, with four days to spare.\u00a0 What can I say?\u00a0 I am one bad a$$ white wrapper.<\/p>\n<p>Also <strong>On Tap for Today<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marthastewart.com\/photogallery\/wrap-it-up\" target=\"_blank\">Brilliant gift wrapping ideas<\/a> from the First Lady of Kraft Paper herself<\/li>\n<li>The perfect treat for a snowy afternoon: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thekitchn.com\/thekitchn\/crosspost\/your-3ingredient-allappliance-cleanup-kit-134018?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+apartmenttherapy%2Fthekitchn+%28The+Kitchn%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\" target=\"_blank\">melting snowman cookies<\/a><\/li>\n<li>6 miles for <a href=\"http:\/\/pages.teamintraining.org\/ma\/wdw11\/eevanssrmp#My-Fundraising-Page\" target=\"_blank\">Team in Training<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>When unwrapping presents, are you careful and cautious or do you wrap that thing open with reckless abandon?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[tweetmeme source=\u201delizabethev\u201d only_single=false] I usually don&#8217;t care much for secular Christmas music.\u00a0 Stupid Dominick the Donkey, in particular, makes me want to poke my eardrums out with a miniature candy cane.\u00a0 I make an exception, however, for two very special jams: Feliz Navidad and Christmas Wrapping.\u00a0 The first reminds me of that old Sesame Street Christmas special where they all go ice skating, complete with the most muppetty crack the whip of all time.\u00a0 The latter is just plain awesome. &nbsp; I mean it.\u00a0 Christmas Wrapping was made for sing-a-longs. [youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ARq6uYSsUq0&amp;fs=1&amp;hl=en_US] With just a few days to go until Jesus&#8217; birthday, I had a couple more presents to wrap.\u00a0 Last night, I cranked the Waitresses and got down to business. We had approximately 49 paint chips left from the Big Decision (not the Lebron James network special, the one where I had to decide between 16 shades of grey wall paint), so I put those to good use as gift tags. To jazz up the Kraft paper a bit, I added a few cinnamon sticks and pieces of coral and shells from one of my many Cool Stuff Explorations in November. I rounded out the evening by addressing our Christmas cards.\u00a0 With any luck, they&#8217;ll end up in your mailboxes sometime before next Christmas. When I started running low on adhesive Clarks, I contemplated using the mini-mes leftover from my emergency passport renewal.\u00a0 I am not sure how I ended up with so many photos of myself.\u00a0 Or why I kept them.\u00a0 Or how I made it through customs without being cast in the next vampire movie. Almost all of my presents are now wrapped and resting beneath our tree, with four days to spare.\u00a0 What can I say?\u00a0 I am one bad a$$ white wrapper. Also On Tap for Today: Brilliant gift wrapping ideas from the First Lady of Kraft Paper herself The perfect treat for a snowy afternoon: melting snowman cookies 6 miles for Team in Training When unwrapping presents, are you careful and cautious or do you wrap that thing open with reckless abandon?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,9],"tags":[188,196,215,492,786,850,875],"class_list":["post-3007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home","category-humans","category-photographs","tag-christmas","tag-clark","tag-cool-stuff-explorations","tag-martha-stewart","tag-tips","tag-what-a-nerd","tag-wrapping"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Today: One bad ass white wrapper. - ON TAP FOR TODAY<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/ontapfortoday.com\/2010\/12\/21\/today-one-bad-ass-white-wrapper\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Today: One bad ass white wrapper. - ON TAP FOR TODAY\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[tweetmeme source=\u201delizabethev\u201d only_single=false] I usually don&#8217;t care much for secular Christmas music.\u00a0 Stupid Dominick the Donkey, in particular, makes me want to poke my eardrums out with a miniature candy cane.\u00a0 I make an exception, however, for two very special jams: Feliz Navidad and Christmas Wrapping.\u00a0 The first reminds me of that old Sesame Street Christmas special where they all go ice skating, complete with the most muppetty crack the whip of all time.\u00a0 The latter is just plain awesome. &nbsp; I mean it.\u00a0 Christmas Wrapping was made for sing-a-longs. 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