Wrapping Presents

My dad has always been the one to wrap presents.... My mom buys them and my dad wraps them while listening to Christmas music.
One Christmas eve my sister and i stayed up talking so late that my parents knocked on our bedroom door and asked if we should help wrap presents for our brothers because they didn't have time to wrap all the presents.
Once, my siblings and I were wrapping the presents we had bought for each other. One brother was reading on the top bunk while some of the rest of us wrapped his present. I begged my sister to wrap my present while I was still in the room. I even climbed into the closet but she refused, saying that I would peek.... And I probably would have. What is funny is that last year or maybe the year before one of my brothers gave me my present in the mail packaging and made me wrap it. My own present.... And I didn't peek. I must have grown up some...
I remember wrapping presents with my sister. She showed me how to line up the wrapping paper so that the stripes matched and the little penguins weren't weirdly overlapped.
I can't decide if I think wrapping presents is actually really boring....I kind of think I do.... I know how to do a nice job but who cares that much. I find it much more entertaining to wrap things poorly.... As in mismatched (if not downright clashing) wrapping paper pieced together..... Basically I like to wrap presents so bad that it's funny... But I always completely cover the gift... Because it has to be a surprise!
I also think it is fun to wrap odd shaped presents sometimes, if I can think of a sneaky or visually appealing way to do so. Or, making obvious presents look (or sound) like something else or otherwise make it hard to guess is entertaining. Like the time we put bells in with the puzzle for my dad so he couldn't hear the pieces shifting around over the bells.... Or when we wrapped a stack of tumblers for my mom in a long tube and then added a hook so the whole thing looked like a candy cane.
Anyway.... Those were some random thoughts and memories of wrapping presents. Happy December.