Happy 50th Marilyn!

Today is Marilyn's 50th birthday.... MG and I (Cat) decorated her cube while she was at lunch.....

MG replaced her chair with a wheelchair....

MG drew a picture of a hill..... and at a point over the hill .... put an "x" with "you are here".....

I made a few copies of "Caution: Over the Hill" (black on yellow), taped them together to make a banner, and put it across her opening.....

Then MG & I put stretch wrap back and forth across the opening..... We wanted to fill it with styrofoam peanuts..... but decided not to because of the mess....

JoeJack called - she told him about it.... and how we used "Saran wrap" over her doorway.... she was a little giddy about it.... which tells us that she liked it..... but would never admit to us....

I read about a good prank to pull with her computer - but didn't have time to do it.... Do a print screen and paste it into "paint" (or other bmp program).... save the file then set it as the desktop.... then put all of the desktop icons into a folder..... when the person starts clicking.... nothing happens! Will let you know when I have time to pull it off.....

But What About Me????

A publicity photo I (Cat) took of a band a few months ago is on the back cover of their latest CD and used in ads in 3 national music magazines to promote the CD.

Squirrel was hanging around in our department waiting on someone - while we chatted I showed him the CD and my name in the liner notes. He says, "You're famous. You're the only famous person I know." I'm far from famous but this is a long-time dream come true.

Marilyn starts whining, "But I've been published."

Marilyn has had some pictures she pictures she's taken posted on the local fire department website and a couple in the weekly newspaper of a nearby town.... with a population of just over 2,000.

Shhh! Don't Tell JoeJack!

I (Cat) was walking through the breakroom when I overheard Squirrel saying something to Marilyn about her panties.

It's probably best that JoeJack doesn't hear about this..... he's about 4 times the size of Squirrel!

Speaking Iddish

Mrs. C was talking about her aunt this morning and the inflections she uses when she says, "I don't know." She's had stroke and can't speak well or remember things, but still says this the same way.

Marilyn, of course, started talking about her dad. After his stroke he spoke "Iddish" and the only name he could still say was "Marilyn"..... because she was Daddy's Little Girl. Oh, and the rest of the family was mad because he only said her name.

Marilyn a TV Star?

If she goes through with what I'm overhearing, she will say she is!

A few minutes ago Wilma told Marilyn about a TV commercial for garage doors that she saw this weekend - showing on Lifetime, CNN, and other cable channels. The commercials were the local inserts by the cable company. Wilma told her that if this company is doing it then it must not be too expensive.

Marilyn remarks back, "Me and JoeJack will have to be in ours."

I don't know what they're doing a commercial for - JoeJack's handyman business or if they've started another venture.... but whatever it is, they will be the Chuck Norris & Christy Brinkley of it, at least in their own minds. :)

~Cat

Fear or Fear Not?

Marilyn told Jessica yesterday that Squirrel is "ascared" to talk to her. Jessica was laughing at Marilyn for thinking that.

Maybe the proper spelling for how she pronounced it would be a-skeer-ed.

Not Quite Sure Where to Begin

I will recount what I can recall.....

This morning Wilma, Marilyn, and Mrs. C put up the Christmas tree in the department. While that was happening, Wilma took a red pipe cleaner and taped it under her nose like a moustache. A few minutes later she was walking around with the red pipe cleaner on top of her head like antlers (but looked more like devil horns!) and green garland draped around her neck. She may still be like that - thankfully neither of us can see her from where we are!

Squirrel comes in, sees Wilma all decked out in that glory, and remarks that she brought Christmas spirit to the office. Marilyn rolls around the corner and pipes up that "all of us helped. Well, me and Wilma and Mrs. C."

Squirrel must have made a remark about Wilma's antlers/horns and maybe they should be bigger because Wilma said, "I don't know about that. I get those penis enlargement emails all the time."

Squirrel: "I don't get any of those. I'd like to see that when you get it."

Then the conversation took some kind of a turn to sex change operations. Marilyn said to Squirrel, "I don't know why you would want girl's things because I know I wouldn't want boy's things. I don't understand that."

We're sure she was saying "you" to Squirrel in general terms of men. Squirrel thinks he's too macho to be a woman.....

Wilma & the Magic Show

Wilma took Bam-Bam to a magic show. She told us that there was one little girl there was was like the magician's "shadow jokester" because she kept smart-cracking him.

Then she told us about someone she saw once and bought their CD. The CD had a song on it called "Aunt Sara Had a Burger in Her Nose" .... or something like that....

We think she was still on the magician topic, but didn't know a magician could produce a CD .... slight of words instead of sleight of hand???

So... the whole Kramer (from Seinfeld) incident ... that was his shadow jokester instead of a heckler....

Wilma's Tooth Problems

Just going to put it in quotes.....

"My one tooth that I had fixed came unfixed."

"The tooth behind that one has gone dead."

Came unfixed???? Has gone dead????? We're beyond comments here!

What Did You Say?

Wilma is trying to be Webster again....

coller - "I need to use a different coller of highlighter."

oinges - "I'm used to seeing Christmas baskets with apples and oinges."

condemption - "My sister had a condemption fit when I told her to tell her visiting nurses to use the hamburger to make meatloaf."

We're guessing at spelling. We don't want her to think we're stupid because we don't know how to spell the new words she's adding to the dictionary.

Score One for Mrs. C

Marilyn left early for lunch today. She said she had to go home to pee.

Mrs. C came back to the office and asked where Marilyn was. We told her she left early for lunch because she had to pee. Mrs. C says, "Oh, Is JoeJack home?"

Does Marilyn really think we believe that nonsense?

I Think These Cookies All Taste Alike

We received a free tin of Danish Butter Cookies with an office supply order last week. The cookies come in various shapes sizes as depicted on this tin.

Mrs. C ate 3 or 4 of the cookies in different shapes and remarked, "I think these cookies all taste alike."

Of course they do. They are the same cookies - just cut with a different cutter.