Phew...its only Monday and I have a week of craziness ahead of me. Today we took our newest Project Analyst out to lunch at my boss-lady's favorite restaurant. (she goes to Avila's several at least 3 times a week, she has her favorite waitress and whenever we go, she just walks in a sits down and Kathy brings her an iced tea)
I ended up staying close to an hour overtime to get some work done for my boss for her meeting tomorrow morning. I also collected money for the gift card we are going to give our office manager tomorrow for her surprise baby shower. Initially I had thought that we were going to give $5-$10 each (there are 7 of us contributing). One of the girls kept asking how much we were going to give, and when I suggested $10, she turned it around to giving about $25 each since that's how much we would each have spent if we were buying gifts ourselves. I guess my sister and I had strange looks on our faces and one of the other girls chimed in with "or whatever you can". The girl who suggested $25 ended up giving me $35 and the one who chimed in with "whatever you can" gave $25. One of the our other co-workers thought $25 was a lot, so she gave $15, and so when I was going around asking people if they wanted to contribute..they asked how much and I ended up giving a range of $15 to $35. So, by the time I got everyone's money, I had $115 (excluding me and my sister). We ended up getting a$150 gift card. My sister and I felt compelled to put in the remaining $35. Is it just me or is $150 from 7 people a lot? We are only spending up the $20 on our Secret Santa gifts for our own group...where did this $25-$35 thing come from? I don't know. I didn't want to say anything because I didn't want to look like a total cheapsake..but then it turned out that a couple of other people felt the same way. I feel kinda bad about complaining about it right now...
When my sister and I got home from work, we ate a quick dinner and made the pasta salad that we are going to take tomorrow for the pot luck baby shower. Then we went to the Spectrum to pick up a gift card at Target for the office manager, a gift card at Barnes & Noble for my Secret Santa Gift, and I also bought my sister her x-mas gift.
On Thursday we are going to have our Secret Santa gift exchange. We are also going to Ruth's Chris for our department holiday lunch. yummmmmiee. I can't wait. I went there once and it was D to the E to the LICIOUS.
On Friday we are going to take one of the Admin girls out to lunch for her birthday. Then Friday night is the company Holiday Party. Rumor has it that one of the door prizes is a roomba. I wanna roomba. Although, I would like to win one of the Hawaii Trips...Aloha!
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