I am just home from our holiday party and I am all aglow with the love I feel for my colleague friends. They are so smart and fun and loveable….how can these be the same people I want to muzzle throughout my day? Today I got into such a heated discussion with co-workers that I was celebrating the fact that I didn’t use the “f word”. It’s been known to happen. (And truthfully I love the f word; it is often the only word that adds that exact punch to my sentiment yet I do fear sounding like a bully when at work since there are always power differentials to consider.) Today one of the discussants politely said we should cool down since we were all clearly feeling “energized”. Our voices were loud, strong and we disagreed. We all had our knickers in a bunch so to speak.

So anyway–the party was a hoot. Colleagues were a tad buzzed and laughing freely. Made me see them again as the dynamic, dimensional, wonderful people that they are. I had an earlier glimpse at the Great, never-used, Re-gift Grab bag party we had earlier in the week. The event was also a Yankee grab bag which meant you could take any one else’s gift who went before you. Someone brought in a battery-operated Conair face scrubber that was easily and immediately recognizable as a vibrator. Someone else brought in a huge collection of White Diamonds perfume and lotions. The biggest hit by far was a bar kit/shaker with a golf theme. The event had me laughing hysterically as colleaguees traded up and duped one another

Even funnier when another colleague was walking around with a huge box of chocolates and referencing the highly inapporpriate Justin Timberlake/Andy Samberg SNL skit which featured a “dick in the box’. Also hilarious.

Another colleague confided that she was separated from her husband and her baby was living with her mom many states away. Ouch. Very kind, very real exchanges. Didn’t miss my dream baby or children. Actually relished the connection with this range of very different individuals…thank you. amen. Diane