A Funny Tale

So, one week ago, today, Jamie started a new job.  He was working at the Depot of Home, but the hours were inconsistent and were beginning to leave huge gaps in our finances.  This new job provides much better and, for the first time in our 7+ years as a married couple, is a M-F, 8:30a-5:30p job.  Jamie has always had jobs with wonky, ever-changing schedules, often having to work evenings, weekends and holidays.  This job requires none of that and we are so thankful!!!!

At any rate, Jamie is working as an Administrative Assistant on a team of Admins, all of which happen to be women.  As it happens - and this will become important in a second, all the HR folks are female too.

One of the Admins is getting married later this month and yesterday all the Admins and HR folks threw her a bridal shower - yes, you've put it together- all women, except for Jamie...  They invited Jamie to come, and being new and all, Jamie didn't have a good feel for if they were just trying to be nice or if he was more or less expected to join them.  So, he erred on the side of caution and joined them for the bridal shower.  :)

 The best part is yet to come.

Jamie calls to let me know that the party was considered their lunch break so he wouldn't be coming home until the end of the day.  Then, he lets me know that at The Bridal Shower he just attended, he was the winner of the "Guess The Kitchen Utensil" game.  A bunch of utensils were in a bag and without looking one had to feel and guess.  Yep, all those women and Jamie was the winner!  He even won some chocolate and lovely stationary for his win!  :)

Suffice it to say, Day 1 of Week 2 of New Job was different than expected!