Silent Night

Although I am titling this passage as a Silent Night, the gathering that I attended last night was exactly the opposite. My work group traveled, together I might add, up to Jackson, TN last night for a meal and a polite game of Dirty Santa. While driving on I40 in terrible construction traffic with a car full of people, some of which had never met each other, we learned a bit more about each other on the way there and back. Funny how the holidays bring us together in that way. Kyla exposed her boyfriend to the craziness that is our work relationships. I worried that he would not have a good time and am still in the dark about that, but Hollie's husband came through with his small talk about cars and all the people he knew. I was thoroughly entertained by my boss's husband and youngest daughter. Grace sat next to me with her daddy after the food arrived and she chatted with me about all sorts of things including her imaginary friends named "Wing-Wing" and "Blahlalah". She played with her daddy's blackberry attempting to carry on conversations with her friends while we all enjoyed each other's company, loudly. I hadn't seen most of these people since February of last year, however; I speak with them daily so there wasn't much to catch up on. We ate and were merry and then Dirty Santa was on. As we opened,stole and laughed about all the gifts, I realized that this was a great idea, thanks Sam. After the game was over we ran out to the car and jumped in hoping that we would not get stuck in the same type of traffic that we did on the way up. No suck luck. Somehow it was okay. We laughed and snickered at old inside jokes and filled some in on some stories they had been left out of. Overall, this trip was a fun social event for all of us. We spend countless hours with these people everyday and it was nice to get together and be friends and enjoy each others families. I hope they had a great time just like me. Until next time, Happy Holidays.