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kybearfuzz ([personal profile] kybearfuzz) wrote2008-07-03 07:52 am

A 40th Birthday Gift

The door, the room, the fun
Look at the good I do...

After my interview yesterday, a coworker came up to ask if I would buy the 40th birthday stuff for another fun coworker who is on vacation. Her 40th was Thursday of last week, but she's not due back in the office until Monday.

I was very tired, but thought this was too good to pass up. So after work I bought the standard "Over the Hill" helium balloons, black streamers, a styrofoam tombstone, the hot flash thermometer, and other necessarily accoutrements for her office.

The end product was done last night and I'm proud of it. She'll not be able to get to her desk for a while on Monday as I've webbed up her office from back to front and covered the floor in black balloons. My only regret is that I'm in DC next week and wont see her face or feel her wrath. Good times...

[identity profile] spikejrt.livejournal.com 2008-07-03 01:01 pm (UTC)(link)
well done - the tombstone is a nice touch & is reusable for other milestone birthdays...

[identity profile] kybearfuzz.livejournal.com 2008-07-03 01:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks! We'll have a few more 40's in the coming years, so that tombstone will get used again :)

[identity profile] spatts5.livejournal.com 2008-07-03 01:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Hope it's still around when YOU turn 40!!!

[identity profile] kybearfuzz.livejournal.com 2008-07-03 02:02 pm (UTC)(link)
They're cheap, I'm sure they'll be able to find another if this one should vanish :D

[identity profile] mikiedoggie.livejournal.com 2008-07-03 01:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Very nice job! Good thing you will be in a different state next week. :p

[identity profile] kybearfuzz.livejournal.com 2008-07-03 01:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Heh.. thanks. I don't think she'll be mad. We were thinking of her, you know :)
Edited 2008-07-03 13:31 (UTC)

[identity profile] cincycub.livejournal.com 2008-07-03 01:13 pm (UTC)(link)
i see you've found your niche ;)

[identity profile] kybearfuzz.livejournal.com 2008-07-03 01:31 pm (UTC)(link)
I can't seem to decorate my own house, yet this comes so easily...

[identity profile] snowboardjoe.livejournal.com 2008-07-03 03:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I was going to say the same thing. He does have the talent for entertainment and birthdays, doesn't he? I think I'm far enough away to avoid my next birthday.

When Mark turns 40 I see some major payback coming his way. ;)

[identity profile] kybearfuzz.livejournal.com 2008-07-03 04:32 pm (UTC)(link)
You only THINK you're so far away. My powers are far-reaching! :)

[identity profile] snowboardjoe.livejournal.com 2008-07-03 04:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Bring it on, honey...

[identity profile] prisonbitch.livejournal.com 2008-07-12 02:04 pm (UTC)(link)


among the over the hill things @ my 40th at work was a tube of hemorrhoid cream that expired in the 70's...
Edited 2008-07-12 14:05 (UTC)

[identity profile] kybearfuzz.livejournal.com 2008-07-12 02:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Geez! How long had someone been holding on to that!!!? :D

[identity profile] prisonbitch.livejournal.com 2008-07-12 05:36 pm (UTC)(link)
honestly, it's in the old "Over the Hill" birthday box decorations that is passed around my company.

I'll get to see it again in 6 years when I turn 50