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It was bound to happen sooner or later, what the with the ultra secret way the peeps in my office pass around the birthday cards to sign.

No one signed the birthday girl's name.

Anywhere.

So I wrote the generic 'Happy Birthday' and my name and handed it off to Charlene, the woman in the desk in front of me.

She asked me who it was for, I shrugged and said I didn't know so she signed it and passed it on.

Turns out, it was for her.

Happy Birthday, Charlene. Heh.

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In a related note, we hired a total thundering loon to be the secretary. Yesterday she built an outfit around the ring her husband had gotten her for her birthday. Well, apparently the ring screamed ballerina, because that's what she chose to wear, with a flowing, fluffy chiffon skirt to her knees, tights, and ballet shoes. With a shawl.

Today, she wore a grass skirt in honor of Charlene's birthday, because Charlene grew up in Hawaii.

Luckily, the grass kept catching under the wheels of her chair and she had to change into a pair of jeans or risk destroying her skirt.

I can only thank God our boss draws the line at coconut bras.

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LOL at the birthday card fiasco.

A ballerina yesterday and a grass skirt today? At work? I don't even want to imagine how this woman dresses in her free time.

Your work sounds soooo much more entertaining then mine. *is jealous*

Man, your secretary sounds like my kind of person.

Today I bought a Christmas necklace made of tiny flashing bulbs. Subtlety is not my friend. *g*

Your office sounds way more entertaining than mine.

You are too funny. I'd give anything to be a fly on the wall in your office!

thundering loon ...that is perfect. Perfect.

LOLOL! I so needed that today! Thundering loon! And Happy Birthday, Charlene, lol- you'd think she'd have told you it was her b'day, too, hee!

Oh, man, that whole post is too funny. You should be thankful for that secretary. Your own built-in entertainment at work? It just doesn't get much better.

I don't even want to imagine how this woman dresses in her free time

I have made it a point never, ever to find out.

Yes, straight-laced my office isn't.

We used to have a mail room clerk who'd show up at work dressed in white sweats and no underwear.

Some years later, she posed for one of those local low-end car magazines and I realized that she was restraining herself when she dressed for our office.

Um, pictures please! I want to see the pretty.

Bet the sprog loves that necklace.

Oh yes, we seem to attract the more looney members of the population, for sure. *g*

I have been waiting years to use that term since Buffy uttered it in s1 (about Marcy, the invisible girl who wanted to carve Cordelia's beautiful face), but until this woman began to work for us, the occasion just never came up.

See, that's the thing. It had been her birthday two days before that. I figured we moved on to someone else.

The look on her face when she came back and told me it was for her - the absolute booming laugh from the other offices as the word spread.

I didn't get a lot of work done that morning, especially after I got a gander of the grass skirt wearing nutjob up front.

Believe me, a little of that woman goes a long, long way.

I nearly wept with joy and offered to wash my boss's feet after she moved her from behind me to another room altogether. I don't find the sparkling fairy magic as charming on her as I did on Tinkerbell.

LOL, I don't think it will photograph very well. And I'm worried the flashing might induce epilepsy in someone. Griffin will not be going anywhere near it, that's for sure!

LOL at the b-day card incident. It's never happened to me but I'm always afraid I'm going to accidentally give the card to the birthday person by accident.

Well, now that I've done it, it pretty much pops that fear bubble.

*sigh*