Saturday night we attended our first holiday party with Jim's new co-workers. They are all engineers (except for Jim) and have all been working 7 days a week (including Jim), so it was PARTY TIME! Everyone was already well into the wine/beer/vodka by the time we got there and had put on their party pants. Jim and I were the newbies (and the youngest)and were on our best behavior...until the White Elephant Gift Exchange. I opened an awesome "paint your own garden gnome" kit, which a very loud, happy Scottish (Irish?) man promptly stole from me. My second gift was a Starbuck's card, which was also stolen from me, at which point I RE-Possessed my gnome! Much commotion ensued because after two trades the gnome was "dead." Victory was mine!!
Jim was the last person to pick and ended up with some cranberry sauce and something that caused much inappropriate speculation (some sort of not sex toy that somehow, to the enebriated party attendees, became a sex toy). We brought a life sized, hot pink buddah head to the party, which was the biggest hit of all.
Next week there are two parties--one with the client, which spouses are not invited to and a second party sponsored by the company that Jim is contracted with, which is fancy schmancy. Happy Holidays!!!
1 comment:
That is too funny! We definitely must see a picture of the gnome!
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