Play at Work

Yesterday all of us girls in my office went to lunch - YAY!! We left the sales guys to hold down the fort, but brought them Chili's chips, salsa, and queso for their trouble. This is what we had in our email inbox upon our arrival at the office:

This is an official notice that the “woman” in the office have been put on the “silent treatment.” Please refrain from attempting to converse with the gentlemen in “the pit” as you will be ignored and subsequently get your feelings hurt. Communication will be by email or written letter until further notified! Thank you for your time!

Justin

My coworker Sheryl sent this in reply:

May I please correct your spelling don’t you mean ”women” as in multiple fantastic beautiful ladies that work in SLC that remembered you male types with fresh chips, salsa and let’s not forget the queso for the hassle of holding down the “fort” while we were absent.

With Love,

The Women

We still don't really know why this all started, but you'd think after a whole afternoon of this, the boys would've tired of the game... But wait until you see what they did this morning. We guessed wrong.
































They've built a wall of cardboard around themselves, and put up a list of rules. If you can't see what it says, it's something like this --

*No lifeguard on duty*
Rules:
1-Ask permission to enter
2-Ask permission to speak
3-Address them as "sir"
4-keep your hands and arms inside the ride

I love working where there is funny.

Flash back to October 2008

More pics from when I visited Salt Lake in October.

Candice got her hair cut while I was there. Wendy and I went with. I don't know why she takes us anywhere. She cut off enough hair to donate to Locks of Love. Isn't Candice amazing? Here is Wendy as a partial red head.

Here we are, being adorable. Well, I'm trying. Wendy pulls it off effortlessly.

More pics to come as I transfer them from my camera. Stay tuned.

I adore anyone who adores anyone... Your turn!

Jessie is also very funny. This is why we're friends. And why we share a blog. Funny people should stick together.

This morning we were having a chat about wedding photographers (since this topic - weddings, not photographers in general - is on my mind of late).

This is a re-creation of how it went down:

Jessie: My photographer was about half my budget.
It was tiny. About [enter dollar amount].
Wendy: That was your budget? Or photographer?
Jessie: The budget was tiny. The photographer was full-size.

Why I adore Wendy

Sometimes Wendy and I chat via google. Today I was telling her about a story on CNN.com. It's about Michael Jackson's fans at his ranch, holding vigil. Blah, blah, blah.

The last two paragraphs read:

In the day's final development, a London woman filed a 93-page handwritten document in Los Angeles Superior Court claiming she was Jackson's secret wife and the mother of all three of his children.

In asking for all of Jackson's assets, the woman also added: "I have up to 30 children. My Father (Satan the Devil) Khalid Lucifer as he is known, gave them to us."

Wendy's response:
Something tells me her name is Billy Jean.

She's brilliant!

The reason for Jessie's "Yay"!

Date #19 was my favorite... and the reason for starting that whole thing in the first place. For me, with any big commitment I make -- buying a car, booking a holiday, dating a person exclusively -- I need to do enough research beforehand to save myself from "buyer's remorse".

So I did. I went out with a lot of really wonderful guys, and learned what I liked and what I didn't, what I consider an important quality and what I don't think really matters.

Anyway, Jared and I have dated for about 2 months since then, and 2 months before then, and most of the time in between all my other dates (which he knew about, by the way). We've never talked marriage, though a girl always hopes that's where it's heading (and if she doesn't, that's a sign right there to unplug and run)! So I hoped, but didn't really expect that he'd give me *this* on Monday night. :D

For Wendy

Lucky

My apologies to any followers of my '29 Dates'; I know it's been FOREVER since I've posted! So here's the update. Finally.

Date #19: 11 April
Jared, 22, musicologist student

As you know from Jessie's post, this day in history - April 15 - is notorious for such events as the sinking of the Titanic, the death of Lincoln, tax day, and my birthday. Oddly enough, it also happens to be the birthday of my date, Jared.

I met Jared while serving in the England Birmingham Mission. He says we met through his companion Elder Maggart, but I don't remember that; I remember meeting Jared as the new district leader in my second area. I experienced a lot while in that area - Welsh winters, Halloween, Christmas, "killing" my old comp, and training a new one. Through our 6 months there, we became great friends. We went our separate ways, and then, to our surprise, I was transferred to Leicester my last few months, as was he! He was my district leader for a second time, and it was fun to serve around each other again. We kept in touch after he went home, and my last companion and dear friend helped me realize that... I might actually like him more than just a friend! Wha?!? Never!

Anyway, long story short, we'd been on quite a few dates since December 2008, and decided we wanted to celebrate our birthday together. He goes to USU in Logan, so we celebrated while he was down for the weekend. He came to my house and made me one of my favorite homemade meals - cheese quesadillas. After dinner, I took him to Old Navy, and got him some great jeans for his birthday. From there we went to Cold Stone Creamery, where we each got free 'Like It' ice creams, just because it's our birthdays!! Awesome! Then we went back to my house and exchanged gifts (which is REALLY weird, because it's like Christmas... only, not).

As weird as it is that we share the same birthday, and a ridiculous amount of the same tastes in music, movies, food, and many other things, it's also really great to be with someone I get on so well with. He really is one of my best friends, and has been with me through thick and thin... (I hope that the future has a lot more 'thin' in it, at least where I am concerned. Ha ha.) And I hope the future has a lot of him in it, too.