Growing up there was a funny story about my mom and a cast iron skillet she got for her birthday. She was so upset that she got a Kitchen item for her birthday she refused to open it. Little did she know that my dad had bought her an mp3 player and wrapped it up in the cast iron skillet just to make her mad. Well it worked, and after that we ALL knew that kitchen appliances, cleaning items such as vacuums or pots and pans or anything that would be considered practical are not acceptable items for birthdays.
Well I just want to tell the birthday Gods, that I would gladly set aside that rule this one time for this little beauty this year.