Saturday, November 12, 2011
Blogs
It has been a long time. I was reading some blogs I used to visit and it brought me back to here. The primary reason I started this blog was to stay positive and appreciate life. No matter how bad my day is, I wanted at least one moment when I can sit down and think about what I love the most. Hence, I keeping this alive! My favorite thing today is blogs!!
Monday, January 24, 2011
Motherhood
Billions and billions of people have done it over billions and billions of years. Yet, for when it happens to you, it feels so special and unique. Like, no one in the world could possible understand who you feel. It didn't happen right away. In fact, after three months, I was ready to go back to work. In the fourth month, I was wondering how I could ever get through it. Now, though, every time I see my baby, my heart aches. It's overwhelming. Although the connection and bond is strong, I've never felt more vulnerable and mortal in my life. It's scary, yet the best thing that's ever happened to me. My favorite thing of the day is motherhood.
Friday, December 11, 2009
Friday, November 13, 2009
Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby
Listen to that AMAZING voice! It's actually Louis Jordan singing in the cartoon. One of the things I like best about this version is that it's ONLY Louis Jordan's voice in the chorus. The recorded song in any album has other harmonizing voices that sing along. Not a bad thing, but I like hearing Jordan's voice alone in its purest form.
Of course, you can't get that bass out of your head! To Jerry, that meant a sleepless night, but to me it's deliciously hypnotic. The original version emphasizes the piano.
I had to look up the song on the internet. According to Wikipedia, the song is a jazz stable. There are many covers, remakes and it's a karaoke favorite. The lyrics kill me. Just kill me. Is you is or is you ain't my baby? Seriously, HOW COOL IS THAT? The song is about a guy who's afraid his girlfriend has lost interest in the relationship. It's not sappy or desperate. It just cool. Total and absolute COOL. Here are the rest of the words:
I got a gal that's always late
Every time we have a date
But I love her
Yes I love her
I'm gonna walk right up to her gate
And see if I can get it straight
Cause I want her
I'm gonna ask her
Is you is or is you ain't my baby?
The way you're actin' lately makes me doubt
Yous is still my baby-baby
Seems my flame in your heart's done gone out
A woman is a creature that has always been strange
Just when you're sure of one
You find she's gone and made a change
Is you is or is you ain't my baby
Maybe baby's found somebody new
Or is my baby still my baby true?
The cartoon isn't shabby, either. Jerry takes great care in putting an iron into a pie. He makes sure the iron is totally immersed in the pie. Then throws the whole thing to Tom's face. Was it really necessary putting the iron in pie? Why not just throw the iron? And if you're going to put it in the pie, does it really have to be that hidden? Tom didn't see it coming anyway.
My favorite thing today is Louis Jordan's Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby.
Monday, November 9, 2009
Bobby
My husband had a golf lesson in Foster City and I decided to tag along. I wanted to wait in the bar, have a drink, eat some nachos, and read my book (Pray Eat Love by Elizabeth Gilbert). I wasn't there long when an older man sat down at my table. He wore white pants, white vest sweater lined with green, white collared t-shirt, and a white page boy hat. He had wore dark tinted glasses.
I didn't think much of it him sitting at my table. I thought maybe he wanted to see the TV or hang out with the guy who was playing at the nearby poker machine. I was reading my book, clearly indicating I did not want to be disturbed. Suddenly, he asks me, "How's your game?"
I was a little annoyed. I replied, "I don't play golf. I'm here waiting for my husband." He continued to chat with me. OK, not a big deal, I guess. He was actually pretty charming. We eventually discovered a mutual love for karaoke. He wanted my number. I was reluctant to give it to him, but I did. I didn't know how to refuse without being rude. Bobby (that's his name) said, "Yeah, yeah, we'll sing. I'll call you next week."
I'm not exactly sure how it came up, but he told me he's been married for over 40 years. He said he had a big party to celebrate. I told him that I recently got married September 12th. We chatted a little more, when he left and said, "I'll be right back."
Bobby came back a few minutes later with a paper pamphlet. It was six 8 1/2 X 11 sheets of paper, folded in half and stapled in the center. It was a little booklet with photocopied colored photos of him and his wife through the years. He said his daughter made it for the 40th wedding anniversary party. His wife is absolutely gorgeous. He told me she used to model and that's how they met. He was a singer in a cruise ship and she was working the same night.
The pamphlet was two years old. Worn and a little tattered around the edges. I thought it was cute he kept the pamphlet in his car. I wonder how many people he's shown it to. By the looks of, it looks like it's been thumbed through a lot--either by him or by others. It was crazy to see the first pictures of him and his wife, young in the 60s, to now with four full grown children.
40 years. Wow. That's amazing. I wonder if I'll be blessed enough to spend a 40th wedding anniversary. Even more, I wonder if my husband will go around showing our pictures to perfect strangers at the bar. Probably not. Shin's very shy. Bobby has a history of being a performer: singer, store owner, dancer, and now golf teacher. Letting strangers into his life probably come naturally to Bobby.
I'm glad I met him. I wonder if he'll actually call. I introduced him to Shin after he was done with his golf lesson. Bobby said he could get Shin into the Olympic Golf Club. Before we departed, Bobby said to us, "Yeah, yeah, we'll golf. I'll call you next week."
My favorite thing today is Bobby.
I didn't think much of it him sitting at my table. I thought maybe he wanted to see the TV or hang out with the guy who was playing at the nearby poker machine. I was reading my book, clearly indicating I did not want to be disturbed. Suddenly, he asks me, "How's your game?"
I was a little annoyed. I replied, "I don't play golf. I'm here waiting for my husband." He continued to chat with me. OK, not a big deal, I guess. He was actually pretty charming. We eventually discovered a mutual love for karaoke. He wanted my number. I was reluctant to give it to him, but I did. I didn't know how to refuse without being rude. Bobby (that's his name) said, "Yeah, yeah, we'll sing. I'll call you next week."
I'm not exactly sure how it came up, but he told me he's been married for over 40 years. He said he had a big party to celebrate. I told him that I recently got married September 12th. We chatted a little more, when he left and said, "I'll be right back."
Bobby came back a few minutes later with a paper pamphlet. It was six 8 1/2 X 11 sheets of paper, folded in half and stapled in the center. It was a little booklet with photocopied colored photos of him and his wife through the years. He said his daughter made it for the 40th wedding anniversary party. His wife is absolutely gorgeous. He told me she used to model and that's how they met. He was a singer in a cruise ship and she was working the same night.
The pamphlet was two years old. Worn and a little tattered around the edges. I thought it was cute he kept the pamphlet in his car. I wonder how many people he's shown it to. By the looks of, it looks like it's been thumbed through a lot--either by him or by others. It was crazy to see the first pictures of him and his wife, young in the 60s, to now with four full grown children.
40 years. Wow. That's amazing. I wonder if I'll be blessed enough to spend a 40th wedding anniversary. Even more, I wonder if my husband will go around showing our pictures to perfect strangers at the bar. Probably not. Shin's very shy. Bobby has a history of being a performer: singer, store owner, dancer, and now golf teacher. Letting strangers into his life probably come naturally to Bobby.
I'm glad I met him. I wonder if he'll actually call. I introduced him to Shin after he was done with his golf lesson. Bobby said he could get Shin into the Olympic Golf Club. Before we departed, Bobby said to us, "Yeah, yeah, we'll golf. I'll call you next week."
My favorite thing today is Bobby.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Random Thoughts of the Day
Not sure who the source is. I tried to find it and one user speculated Aaron Karo's Ruminations.
Random Thoughts of the Day:
• More often than not, when someone is telling me a story all I can think about is that I can’t wait for them to finish so that I can tell my own story that’s not only better, but also more directly involves me.
• Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong.
• Have you ever been walking down the street and realized that you're going in the complete opposite direction of where you are supposed to be going? But instead of just turning a 180 and walking back in the direction from which you came, you have to first do something like check your watch or phone or make a grand arm gesture and mutter to yourself to ensure that no one in the surrounding area thinks you're crazy by randomly switching directions on the sidewalk.
• I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was younger.
• The letters T and G are very close to each other on a keyboard. This recently became all too apparent to me and consequently I will never be ending a work email with the phrase "Regards" again.
• Do you remember when you were a kid, playing Nintendo and it wouldn't work? You take the cartridge out, blow in it and that would magically fix the problem. Every kid in America did that, but how did we all know how to fix the problem? There was no internet or message boards or FAQ's. We just figured it out. Today's kids are soft.
• There is a great need for sarcasm font.
• Sometimes, I'll watch a movie that I watched when I was younger and suddenly realize I had no idea what the *** was going on when I first saw it.
• I think everyone has a movie that they love so much; it actually becomes stressful to watch it with other people. I'll end up wasting 90 minutes shiftily glancing around to confirm that everyone's laughing at the right parts, then making sure I laugh just a little bit harder (and a millisecond earlier) to prove that I'm still the only one who really, really gets it.
• How the hell are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?
• I would rather try to carry 10 plastic grocery bags in each hand than take 2 trips to bring my groceries in.
• I think part of a best friend's job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die.
• The only time I look forward to a red light is when I’m trying to finish a text.
• A recent study has shown that playing beer pong contributes to the spread of mono and the flu. Yeah, if you suck at it.
• Was learning cursive really necessary?
• Lol has gone from meaning, "laugh out loud" to "I have nothing else to say".
• I have a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and hunger.
• Answering the same letter three times or more in a row on a Scantron test is absolutely petrifying.
• My brother's Municipal League baseball team is named the Stepdads. Seeing as none of the guys on the team are actual stepdads, I inquired about the name. He explained, "Cuz we beat you, and you hate us." Classy, bro.
• Whenever someone says "I'm not book smart, but I'm street smart", all I hear is "I'm not real smart, but I'm imaginary smart".
• How many times is it appropriate to say "What?" before you just nod and smile because you still didn't hear what they said?
• I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars teams up to prevent a *** from cutting in at the front. Stay strong, brothers!
• While driving yesterday I saw a banana peel in the road and instinctively swerved to avoid it...thanks Mario Kart.
• MapQuest really needs to start their directions on #5. Pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.
• Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died.
• I find it hard to believe there are actually people who get in the shower first and THEN turn on the water.
• Shirts get dirty. Underwear gets dirty. Pants? Pants never get dirty, and you can wear them forever.
• I can't remember the last time I wasn't at least kind of tired.
• Bad decisions make good stories
• Whenever I'm Facebook stalking someone and I find out that their profile is public I feel like a kid on Christmas morning who just got the Red Ryder BB gun that I always wanted. 546 pictures? Don't mind if I do!
• Is it just me or do high school girls get sluttier & sluttier every year?
• If Carmen San Diego and Waldo ever got together, their offspring would probably just be completely invisible.
• Why is it that during an ice-breaker, when the whole room has to go around and say their name and where they are from, I get so incredibly nervous? Like I know my name, I know where I'm from; this shouldn't be a problem....
• You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you've made up your mind that you just aren’t doing anything productive for the rest of the day.
• Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after DVDs? I don't want to have to restart my collection.
• There's no worse feeling than that millisecond you're sure you are going to die after leaning your chair back a little too far.
• I'm always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten page research paper that I swear I did not make any changes to.
• "Do not machine wash or tumble dry" means I will never wash this ever.
• I hate being the one with the remote in a room full of people watching TV. There's so much pressure. 'I love this show, but will they judge me if I keep it on? I bet everyone is wishing we weren’t watching this. It's only a matter of time before they all get up and leave the room. Will we still be friends after this?'
• While watching the Olympics, I find myself cheering equally for China and USA . No, I am not of Chinese descent, but I am fairly certain that when Chinese athletes don’t win, they are executed.
• I hate when I just miss a call by the last ring (Hello? Hello? Darnit!), but when I immediately call back, it rings nine times and goes to voicemail. What'd you do after I didn't answer? Drop the phone and run away?
• I hate leaving my house confident and looking good and then not seeing anyone of importance the entire day. What a waste.
• When I meet a new girl, I'm terrified of mentioning something she hasn't already told me but that I have learned from some light internet stalking.
• I like all of the music in my iTunes, except when it's on shuffle, then I like about one in every fifteen songs in my iTunes.
• Why is a school zone 20 mph? That seems like the optimal cruising speed for pedophiles...
• As a driver I hate pedestrians, and as a pedestrian I hate drivers, but no matter what the mode of transportation, I always hate cyclists.
• Sometimes I'll look down at my watch 3 consecutive times and still not know what time it is.
• It should probably be called Unplanned Parenthood.
• I keep some people's phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.
• I think that if, years down the road when I’m trying to have a kid, I find out that I’m sterile, most of my disappointment will stem from the fact that I was not aware of my condition in college.
• Even if I knew your social security number, I wouldn't know what do to with it.
• Even under ideal conditions people have trouble locating their car keys in a pocket, finding their cell phone, and Pinning the Tail on the Donkey - but I’d bet my a$$ everyone can find and push the Snooze button from 3 feet away, in about 1.7 seconds, eyes closed, first time every time...
• My 4-year old son asked me in the car the other day "Dad what would happen if you ran over a ninja?" How the hell do I respond to that?
• It really pisses me off when I want to read a story on CNN.com
• I wonder if cops ever get pissed off at the fact that everyone they drive behind obeys the speed limit.
• I think the freezer deserves a light as well.
• I disagree with Kay Jewelers. I would bet on any given Friday or Saturday night more kisses begin with Miller Lites than Kay.
• The other night I ordered takeout, and when I looked in the bag, saw they had included four sets of plastic silverware. In other words, someone at the restaurant packed my order, took a second to think about it, and then estimate d that there must be at least four people eating to require such a large amount of food. Too bad I was eating by myself. There’s nothing like being made to feel like a fat b@st@rd before dinner.
My favorite thing today is Random Thoughts of the Day.
Random Thoughts of the Day:
• More often than not, when someone is telling me a story all I can think about is that I can’t wait for them to finish so that I can tell my own story that’s not only better, but also more directly involves me.
• Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong.
• Have you ever been walking down the street and realized that you're going in the complete opposite direction of where you are supposed to be going? But instead of just turning a 180 and walking back in the direction from which you came, you have to first do something like check your watch or phone or make a grand arm gesture and mutter to yourself to ensure that no one in the surrounding area thinks you're crazy by randomly switching directions on the sidewalk.
• I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was younger.
• The letters T and G are very close to each other on a keyboard. This recently became all too apparent to me and consequently I will never be ending a work email with the phrase "Regards" again.
• Do you remember when you were a kid, playing Nintendo and it wouldn't work? You take the cartridge out, blow in it and that would magically fix the problem. Every kid in America did that, but how did we all know how to fix the problem? There was no internet or message boards or FAQ's. We just figured it out. Today's kids are soft.
• There is a great need for sarcasm font.
• Sometimes, I'll watch a movie that I watched when I was younger and suddenly realize I had no idea what the *** was going on when I first saw it.
• I think everyone has a movie that they love so much; it actually becomes stressful to watch it with other people. I'll end up wasting 90 minutes shiftily glancing around to confirm that everyone's laughing at the right parts, then making sure I laugh just a little bit harder (and a millisecond earlier) to prove that I'm still the only one who really, really gets it.
• How the hell are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?
• I would rather try to carry 10 plastic grocery bags in each hand than take 2 trips to bring my groceries in.
• I think part of a best friend's job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die.
• The only time I look forward to a red light is when I’m trying to finish a text.
• A recent study has shown that playing beer pong contributes to the spread of mono and the flu. Yeah, if you suck at it.
• Was learning cursive really necessary?
• Lol has gone from meaning, "laugh out loud" to "I have nothing else to say".
• I have a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and hunger.
• Answering the same letter three times or more in a row on a Scantron test is absolutely petrifying.
• My brother's Municipal League baseball team is named the Stepdads. Seeing as none of the guys on the team are actual stepdads, I inquired about the name. He explained, "Cuz we beat you, and you hate us." Classy, bro.
• Whenever someone says "I'm not book smart, but I'm street smart", all I hear is "I'm not real smart, but I'm imaginary smart".
• How many times is it appropriate to say "What?" before you just nod and smile because you still didn't hear what they said?
• I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars teams up to prevent a *** from cutting in at the front. Stay strong, brothers!
• While driving yesterday I saw a banana peel in the road and instinctively swerved to avoid it...thanks Mario Kart.
• MapQuest really needs to start their directions on #5. Pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.
• Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died.
• I find it hard to believe there are actually people who get in the shower first and THEN turn on the water.
• Shirts get dirty. Underwear gets dirty. Pants? Pants never get dirty, and you can wear them forever.
• I can't remember the last time I wasn't at least kind of tired.
• Bad decisions make good stories
• Whenever I'm Facebook stalking someone and I find out that their profile is public I feel like a kid on Christmas morning who just got the Red Ryder BB gun that I always wanted. 546 pictures? Don't mind if I do!
• Is it just me or do high school girls get sluttier & sluttier every year?
• If Carmen San Diego and Waldo ever got together, their offspring would probably just be completely invisible.
• Why is it that during an ice-breaker, when the whole room has to go around and say their name and where they are from, I get so incredibly nervous? Like I know my name, I know where I'm from; this shouldn't be a problem....
• You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you've made up your mind that you just aren’t doing anything productive for the rest of the day.
• Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after DVDs? I don't want to have to restart my collection.
• There's no worse feeling than that millisecond you're sure you are going to die after leaning your chair back a little too far.
• I'm always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten page research paper that I swear I did not make any changes to.
• "Do not machine wash or tumble dry" means I will never wash this ever.
• I hate being the one with the remote in a room full of people watching TV. There's so much pressure. 'I love this show, but will they judge me if I keep it on? I bet everyone is wishing we weren’t watching this. It's only a matter of time before they all get up and leave the room. Will we still be friends after this?'
• While watching the Olympics, I find myself cheering equally for China and USA . No, I am not of Chinese descent, but I am fairly certain that when Chinese athletes don’t win, they are executed.
• I hate when I just miss a call by the last ring (Hello? Hello? Darnit!), but when I immediately call back, it rings nine times and goes to voicemail. What'd you do after I didn't answer? Drop the phone and run away?
• I hate leaving my house confident and looking good and then not seeing anyone of importance the entire day. What a waste.
• When I meet a new girl, I'm terrified of mentioning something she hasn't already told me but that I have learned from some light internet stalking.
• I like all of the music in my iTunes, except when it's on shuffle, then I like about one in every fifteen songs in my iTunes.
• Why is a school zone 20 mph? That seems like the optimal cruising speed for pedophiles...
• As a driver I hate pedestrians, and as a pedestrian I hate drivers, but no matter what the mode of transportation, I always hate cyclists.
• Sometimes I'll look down at my watch 3 consecutive times and still not know what time it is.
• It should probably be called Unplanned Parenthood.
• I keep some people's phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.
• I think that if, years down the road when I’m trying to have a kid, I find out that I’m sterile, most of my disappointment will stem from the fact that I was not aware of my condition in college.
• Even if I knew your social security number, I wouldn't know what do to with it.
• Even under ideal conditions people have trouble locating their car keys in a pocket, finding their cell phone, and Pinning the Tail on the Donkey - but I’d bet my a$$ everyone can find and push the Snooze button from 3 feet away, in about 1.7 seconds, eyes closed, first time every time...
• My 4-year old son asked me in the car the other day "Dad what would happen if you ran over a ninja?" How the hell do I respond to that?
• It really pisses me off when I want to read a story on CNN.com
• I wonder if cops ever get pissed off at the fact that everyone they drive behind obeys the speed limit.
• I think the freezer deserves a light as well.
• I disagree with Kay Jewelers. I would bet on any given Friday or Saturday night more kisses begin with Miller Lites than Kay.
• The other night I ordered takeout, and when I looked in the bag, saw they had included four sets of plastic silverware. In other words, someone at the restaurant packed my order, took a second to think about it, and then estimate d that there must be at least four people eating to require such a large amount of food. Too bad I was eating by myself. There’s nothing like being made to feel like a fat b@st@rd before dinner.
My favorite thing today is Random Thoughts of the Day.
Balloons
Incident 1:
This is a picture of my boyfriend.
Doesn't he look like Wilson from Home Improvement? (The black circles around the baby and father were added by me. You know, for their privacy.) The thing that I found the most hilarious about this picture is that my boyfriend actually posed for the picture. As if we all have X-ray vision and can see through the balloon and then his face. Why didn't he push the balloon away? Or move his head?
To refresh your memory, here's a picture of Wilson. We never get to see how he really looks like.
Incident 2:
My boyfriend and I were trying out white water rafting for the first time. We finished a 2 1/2 drive to come up to a camping site. We didn't see any signs of a water rafting company and started to walk around the camp lot. We were eventually approached by a woman who asked, "Do you like balloons?" My boyfriend and I looked at each questioningly and I finally answered, "Yes, I like balloons." The women replied, "Yeah, who doesn't like balloons?" We preceded to talk about the AWESOMENESS of balloons. After a while, I said, "Um..excuse, what did you first ask?" The woman said, "I asked if you were Yoon." The woman was one of the instructors of the white rafting company. She saw us coming and figured we were her customers. From the list of attendees she had, she only had my last name and so naturally asked if I was her. She kind of thought it was strange that I came up to her talking about balloons, but she just went with it because really...Who doesn't love balloons?
Incident 3:
We had a company event and used a bunch of balloons to decorate the conference room. After the event, during the clean up, the event committee members gathered all the balloons into one big bunch. I thought it would be funny if we left the balloons at a coworkers desk because it was his birthday. So, me and two other coworkers started to walk the balloon over to his desk. It was after hours and didn't expect to see anyone. As we were approaching the desk, the birthday boy saw us from the end of the hall. Of course, we looked ridiculous walking towards his desk w/ like 50 balloons and he suspiciously asked, "What are you guys doing?" All of a sudden, I hear, "RUN!" The three of us start jamming down the hall. Yes, running down the hall, with a huge bouquet of balloons through the halls of a biotech. We approach his desk, drop the balloons and then run out of the office. There are two particularly hilarious things about this incident:
1) Why were we running? He saw us! He knew it was us. What was the point? And when my coworker said, "RUN!" why did we obey as if our life depended on it?
2) The birthday boy sat next to another coworker who was at his desk on his computer. (What were all these people working after hours ANYWAY?) During the whole ruckus of running into the office and dropping off the balloons and running out, he didn't blink an eye. Didn't turn his head. Didn't ask us what was going on. Didn't chuckle. NOTHING. As if dropping off 50 balloons was the most normal thing to do in the world. Just another day at work.
My favorite thing today is Balloons.
This is a picture of my boyfriend.
Doesn't he look like Wilson from Home Improvement? (The black circles around the baby and father were added by me. You know, for their privacy.) The thing that I found the most hilarious about this picture is that my boyfriend actually posed for the picture. As if we all have X-ray vision and can see through the balloon and then his face. Why didn't he push the balloon away? Or move his head?
To refresh your memory, here's a picture of Wilson. We never get to see how he really looks like.
Incident 2:
My boyfriend and I were trying out white water rafting for the first time. We finished a 2 1/2 drive to come up to a camping site. We didn't see any signs of a water rafting company and started to walk around the camp lot. We were eventually approached by a woman who asked, "Do you like balloons?" My boyfriend and I looked at each questioningly and I finally answered, "Yes, I like balloons." The women replied, "Yeah, who doesn't like balloons?" We preceded to talk about the AWESOMENESS of balloons. After a while, I said, "Um..excuse, what did you first ask?" The woman said, "I asked if you were Yoon." The woman was one of the instructors of the white rafting company. She saw us coming and figured we were her customers. From the list of attendees she had, she only had my last name and so naturally asked if I was her. She kind of thought it was strange that I came up to her talking about balloons, but she just went with it because really...Who doesn't love balloons?
Incident 3:
We had a company event and used a bunch of balloons to decorate the conference room. After the event, during the clean up, the event committee members gathered all the balloons into one big bunch. I thought it would be funny if we left the balloons at a coworkers desk because it was his birthday. So, me and two other coworkers started to walk the balloon over to his desk. It was after hours and didn't expect to see anyone. As we were approaching the desk, the birthday boy saw us from the end of the hall. Of course, we looked ridiculous walking towards his desk w/ like 50 balloons and he suspiciously asked, "What are you guys doing?" All of a sudden, I hear, "RUN!" The three of us start jamming down the hall. Yes, running down the hall, with a huge bouquet of balloons through the halls of a biotech. We approach his desk, drop the balloons and then run out of the office. There are two particularly hilarious things about this incident:
1) Why were we running? He saw us! He knew it was us. What was the point? And when my coworker said, "RUN!" why did we obey as if our life depended on it?
2) The birthday boy sat next to another coworker who was at his desk on his computer. (What were all these people working after hours ANYWAY?) During the whole ruckus of running into the office and dropping off the balloons and running out, he didn't blink an eye. Didn't turn his head. Didn't ask us what was going on. Didn't chuckle. NOTHING. As if dropping off 50 balloons was the most normal thing to do in the world. Just another day at work.
My favorite thing today is Balloons.
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