The holiday season is upon us.

I have much fodder for Christmas with RJeezy stories. After 26+ years, there are bound to be some worth mentioning here, right?

This is one that I forgot about, until RJ made me think of it when we were chatting the other day. This is part of the reason why if I don't talk to RJ, things like lolRJ contests happen. By the way, Jon won that one. Sorry, Elvis. For a while, it looked like Elvis was going to take the prize.

Anyway, on to the story. Many years ago, we decided as a family to do a Secret Santa exchange among the children. With seven siblings and the addition of their spouses to the family over the years, it was a realistic solution for gift-giving. As the years progressed, I started giving Jon and RJ gifts in addition to my Secret Santa draw. I think I started doing it in college. I didn't spend as much, but it was still a little something extra for them since they were still kids.

I do have a very specific story to share about an RJeezy moment, but I'll save that for another day. I'm just going to give you the teaser tag line regarding that: Tommy Hilfiger.

Today's story is about how I, as RJ put it, "lincoln burrows'd" him. Part of our Secret Santa exchange is we maintain an Amazon wish list. I got RJ one of the Lord of the Rings DVDs for Christmas that year, but I didn't get it through Amazon. Since RJ and I lived together at the time, I went to his computer to delete it from his Amazon wish list. In case you're not familiar with Amazon lists, if you purchase the item from Amazon, the list then registers the item as purchased. If you don't, it's obviously still listed, and therefore, theoretically available for someone else to get it for RJ.

To ensure that no one else would purchase the same item, I deleted it. I figured he wasn't going to notice it since most people don't check their wish list daily. But, just to make sure he didn't add it back on, I checked his wish list everyday. Which was a good thing because RJ did notice it wasn't on his list anymore, so he added it back on. Later on, when I would come home from work, I would go back to his computer and delete it from his list. Rinse and repeat.

This went on for at least two weeks. Finally, I couldn't take it anymore, I had to confess because: 1) I'm horrible about surprising people, and 2) The situation was evolving to hysterical proportions. I finally told him that I've been the one deleting it off his list because I already got it for him. He thought it was Amazon's system screwing up. Really, it was just gremlins. ;)