Germ-Free Zone

This is what greeted me upon my arrival at work this morning.

Thanks, Brady.

Crexendo post-it's, quartered paper and green sharpie littered my workspace. He had taken great care to make sure not an ounce of space was wasted.

Pretty sure he was probably working on it all night.

It was surely a sight to see.

[This picture doesn't do it justice.]

Now, after seeing all of this painstakingly done, my first reaction was this:

How do I retaliate?

Jared's solution was genius.

Ryan and I took everything down, hid it at the bottom of Shane's garbage can and covered the hand sanitizer with folders in my desk drawer.

After all, what makes a guy more bothered than when he spent forever devising a brilliant prank, only to have it not be acknowledged?

So I waited until two, until he came in.

And acted like nothing had happened.

And it was beautiful. At first, he tried to tell me I was playing stupid and had taken it all down.

He searched the trash cans.

I opened my desk drawers.

He walked away, dejected.

Secretly, I laughed. But just a little.

But Brady was too smart for me.

Whilst in the middle of a call, he came up with another hand sanitizer container.

(Also, where was he getting all of these? They are HUGE.)

"I found it!"

"Where did you get that??!"

"It's the same one!""

"......"

He knew. He knew that by introducing a new one under the facade of the old, I would know it wasn't true. And, he devised, the only way I would know that is if I knew where the original was.

Which, I did.

I had been caught. Found out. Weighed, measured and found wanting.

I took it back and left it on his desk, with a mean post-it attached. (Not pictured due to content.)

It now hangs proudly on his wall.

Sooner or later, though- I will get him back.

I'm a Hater.

Sometimes, people are mean to me at work.

This lovely little number began as just the 'Melissa', printed out by the adorable Judy across from me and artistically designed by yours truly. I may or may not have added the 'is awesome'. But it's true.

It all started when Jantzen came over and desecrated my beautiful nameplate with a ballpoint pen and a nasty word. I told him I was no such thing.

Jantzen, thinking I just didn't understand the definition of said word, was more than happy to oblige with a detailed description (See above.)


Pretty sure Jantzen is just jealous of how awesome I am.



But oh, don't worry. It's not just Jantzen that gets to have fun. Brady joins in sometimes, too.

Cute, right?

This little number has been passed back and forth between us a few times over the past couple of days.

Still not quite sure where he got it from.

He thought it was the perfect gift:

-necessary

-thoughtful

-sanitary...

'He was looking out for my wellbeing', I was assured.

However, I was not allowed to reciprocate and look out for HIS wellbeing, I suppose.

Brady absolutely refuses to take his gift back.

I'll get him back eventually...

Needless to say, I'm a hater.

But at least I'm sanitary.

Disappointed.

That's all.

Va Va Voom.

It has been changed!
It has been altered!
It is lovely.


I decided it was time for a little update on the blog front.
The beautiful weather outside today sparked something inside of me- a need for change.
So I began here.



There are still several things I need to tweak before it is where I'd like it to be, but I figured I would share it with you as it is now.

This summer I am determined to change for the better.
I have a lot of things on my Hopes, Dreams and Goals list to accomplish.



We'll see where things go from here.