The Holiday Begins

Things accomplished at my work today:

1. Twelve laptop keyboards blown out with an air compressor.

2. Impromptu purple snowball fight with the coolest packing material ever - purple circles of foam.

3. Lots of laptops imaged, bagged and tagged, ready to be distributed in January.

4. Game of bowling using stacks of the purple circles of foam as pins and a small can of soda as a bowling ball.

5. A couple of laptop and cell phone returns processed.

6. A couple of games of magnetic darts played on the dollar store magnetic dartboard brought in yesterday by our boss.

7. A few phone calls answered.

8. Lots of attention given to the laptop technician's dog, who she brought in with her today.

9. And thrown in throughout the day, lots of joking and shirking of duty. And maybe some inappropriate dirty remarks were tossed around for good measure.

Doesn't that sound like a fun day? And it all ended at 2:00, with the boss leaving an hour and a half earlier than us. You should be able to guess how much work got done in that last hour and a half (and maybe you can even guess which of the above activities took place during that time, too). And now we're off for 11 days in a row, except for Jamie, who took an extra week, a fact of which I will be very jealous come January 3rd, when I have to get up at 6:00 and go back in, while he sleeps in until 11:00 or 12:00.

On deck for tomorrow - grocery shopping (not so fun, especially since I am broke) and ice skating with Sarah (should be very fun). I haven't actually skated since about 1996, and that was the first time I was ever on ice skates. I did spend my youth on roller skates, though (mostly while I pretended to be Tootie from The Facts of Life), so once I rediscover my balance on the blades, I should be fine. Of course, I could be spending most of the time on my ass, too. I'll update with all the thrills and spills tomorrow.