Christmas SWAG!!!!!!!

The beauty of Christmas, in addition to the birth of the Savior of the world, is the receipt of free Christmas SWAG from corporate vendors. If you are unfamiliar with the term SWAG, or the episode of the office in which it is featured, here you go:

Stuff
We
All
Get

Every year we eagerly wait the first box of SWAG. Will it be cookies? Maybe a t-shirt?? Hot chocolate mix???

This year, the first SWAG to arrive on the scene was a tin of cookies...that disappeared as quickly as it came. The second SWAG was a second tin of cookies, whose fate was the same as the first. The third SWAG was a tin (see a tin theme?) of chocolate covered pecans. Next, an extra large box of SWAG came in... the assortment was equal to that of a thanksgiving feast.
The treasure box included:
-Cheese straws
-Cheddar sticks
-Peanut butter pretzels
-Fruit cordials
-Mixed fruit sour drops
-Chocolate decadence cookies
-Caramel puff balls
-Toffee peanuts
-Yogurt pretzels

People come out of the woodwork in this office when the SWAG arrives. It truly is the lifeblood that brings the office together. And that's what Christmas is all about, isn't it?

Marni's Occupational Crossover

Today I tried my hand at speech therapy.

Emily and I were talking about this new movie, Fantastic Mr. Fox (which Emily absolutely loved, and I had mixed feelings about). At the end of the movie, there is this completely random and funny part with a wolf.

Emily: I wanted to find a picture of a woof to post on your wall.

Marni: A WOOF?

Emily: Yeah! A woof!

Oh no. She can't say wolf. Intervention time - Marni to the rescue!

Marni: Say wool

Emily: Wool

Marni: Say wool...f

Emily: Wool...f

Marni: Wool-f

Emily: Wool-f

Marni: Wolf

Emily: WOULF

Marni: No, more like a U sound - wulf

Emily: Wolf

Marni: Good! See, you can do it!

Emily: I know...it's just easier to say woof.

Marni: sigh...

My diagnosis: Emily is lazy and beyond help. God help her. God help us all.

Static electricity

At least the chairs have good lumbar support.

Slow day at work makes Marni crazy

marni: what's my facebook status????
emily: the state trivia game
marni: oh yeah...... who commented??????
emily: I did.
marni: oh yeah.....

Celebrity customer??

....Marni responding to a customer named Paula....
Marni: This may be out of line.... but are you from American Idol?

ah yes, the classic confuse our customers with a celebrity gag.

Trash cans are for trash

...they are not for expensive soundboard equipment.

Imagine the look of horror on the owner's face upon sighting this strategically placed 'trash' in the trash can with his precious soundboard.

(no soundboards were harmed in this classic mistake-the-soundboard-storage-can-for-a-trash-can gag.)

The Great ShoppyBag Ruckus

So I opened an e-mail and accidentally gave it permission to spam every single one of my gmail contacts. so sue me. Innocent mistake, won't happen again.

Marni: you have created a monster...and it's called ShoppyBag...!!!!!

December 2 at 1:45pm comment

Emily: we will all laugh about this in a few years.

December 2 at 1:50pm · Delete

R.D. if by laughing you mean dart throwing at pics Emily Burrows then yes...we will be doing lots of that in a few years...

December 2 at 2:15pm · Delete

Jessica: yeah what exactly is shoppybag? i got emails from it all day long today? is this your doing burrows?

December 2 at 8:52pm · Delete

24th floor window view

Employee of the Month

Remove

...Employee of the Month...

me: did you deliver my mail? if so thank you, if not, thank george
Marni: yes, you're welcome
me: too kind
Marni: I know, it's one of my weaknesses
Marni: ...and it is also one of my strengths

Merry Christmas from Emily & Marni