We had our company Christmas party on Friday and I was in charge of decorating. I asked one of my co-workers to help and we came up with some great ideas. The party was being held in part of the warehouse so we were going to be in a large dingy room with florescent lights, high ceilings and white scuffed up walls. In order to make the setting a little warmer and more inviting, we strung up white Christmas lights in green gossimer. Then to decorate the walls we hung up stockings for each person there.
Here is where the fun part comes in... I sent out an email survey to gather some "fun facts" about each employee, and we wrote one fact for each person on the stockings hanging on the wall - everyone had to guess what fact belonged to which co-worker! We even had prizes for the people who got the most right answers.
Can you guess what my fun fact was? :) My stocking read " I am pregnant and due 5/14/09!
Let me tell you, that was the talk of the party! There were only 3 or 4 people that could apply to, and we were all interrogated and watched like hawks, lol. One of my co-workers who already knew, grabbed me an empty beer bottle and whispered for me to go fill it up with water so I could fool others. It worked great!
When the time came to share the answers to the questions, I gave a sealed envelope to the "announcer" and had him read them aloud. It was so much fun to hear every laugh as they found out who played the trumpet in high school, and who once had a pierced tongue! My name was towards the end of the list, and as the announcer came close to it, I could tell he had been reading ahead. All of the sudden he looked up at me and made eye contact, giving me this awesome surprised look and warm smile! I loved it! Then when it was time to read my name, he skipped it! You should have heard all the shouts!!! After just a couple more answers, he finished with my announcement, and the entire office stood up and clapped!
No one ever suspected it, and I was just showered with congrats :) It was so much fun!
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2 comments:
That's so perfect!! I'm glad that the whole party went so well and that it was so much fun :-)
I bet that was the coolest feeling in the world! I would have loved to be a fly on the wall to see the look on your face. And I am glad you are finally telling more people because I have almost ruined it enough times for you. haha But you loooove me.
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