Boy do I ever work with a bunch of wise guys.

When I got into the office this morning, I very nearly created a big mess. This is the trap that was waiting for me at my desk:

Oh guys you are sooooo funny.

I guess it could have been worse – that’s only one box of Jenga blocks.

Why do we have Jenga at the office? Well today after work we’re having our monthly TGIF (Thank God It’s Friday) get-together where we… well, get together… and have a couple of team-building beverages. We try to have a theme each time. Back in October we did a pumpkin carving competition, once we had a poker tournament and another time, we played Wii.

This time, it’s a Jenga showdown.

So to get ready for it, some of us were having a pre-game practice on my desk yesterday:

Oops.

I think Cisco needs to work on those Jenga skills.

Oh GREAT. Now I have that song in my head.

And I’m going to make you suffer with me:

“Jenga, Jenga, J-J-J-Jenga. You take a block from the bottom and you put it on top, you take a block from the middle and you put it on top. That’s how you build the tower; you just don’t stop. You keep building that tower putting blocks on top. It teeters and it totters, but you don’t give up; it weebles and it wobbles, but you build it on up. You take a block from the bottom and you put it on top, you take a block from the middle and you put it on top, till someone knocks it over, and that’s when you stop, but you can start all over putting blocks on top.”

I’m a big kid at heart. So when Work-Rob (i.e. my boss… as opposed to My-Rob, the one at home) came back from what I think was the fastest Christmas shopping trip in the history of the universe with the most adorable plush Rudolph and Bumble (a.k.a Abominable Snow Monster of the North) that I had ever seen, I couldn’t resist – I ran out to get them too. Oh, and their friends. Well I couldn’t not get their friends! Merry Christmas to me.

They love hanging out with me and my cubicle-buddy Cisco at the office, and it’s a good thing – I’m putting off taking them home. I am going to get in soooo much trouble…!!!