I mentioned this in the Confessions thread yesterday, but I think it deserves a post of its own. My coworkers threw me a surprise shower yesterday! It was fantastic. First my supervisor pulls me aside after I get out of an appointment and tells me she needs to speak with me immediately. We work in a mental health clinic, so I thought something had gone wrong with one of the patients! Sure enough, she starts talking to me about this case and steers me toward the conference room so we could talk privately...but when she opened the door, everyone was inside and shouted surprise! I apparently had a pretty hilarious look on my face, LOL.
So there was a bunch of food brought in for a potluck lunch, and our nursing team had decorated the whole conference room. Because FI and I are both big geeks and all my coworkers know I'm a Trekkie, we did an absolutely awesome Klingon prewedding 'ritual' that someone had managed to find on the internet, apparently intended to prepare me to be a proper Klingon wife, LOL. One of my coworkers even dressed up as a Klingon with tinfoil armor and a sword to 'officiate'! Then I opened presents, and I was absolutely floored by how much everyone had put into that. I came away with the towels from our registry, which someone had managed to track down online and stalk, a set of matching robes for FI and I, BBB gift cards...and 400 bucks! I seriously almost did an ugly cry thanking everybody, I was so touched. It was especially awesome because I'm not having a shower or a bachelorette party with friends and family, because most everyone I would have wanted there is OOT and it proved logistically impossible to get all of them together. But now work has stepped up and given me the experience of both, the surprise shower yesterday and a mini bachelorette tonight. So I don't feel like I'm missing out anymore.
I unfortunately didn't invite anyone from work to the wedding because I work in an office of over 40 people. Inviting all of them plus their SOs would have almost doubled the size of the wedding and put us way over budget, and inviting only some of them would have been rude and awkward. I feel really badly about that because of how supportive they've been and how excited they are about the wedding. There's nothing for it now, but I do plan on doing a thank you card for everyone involved...and probably some cookies as well because social workers love baked goods. :
October 2012 December Siggy - A Favorite Wedding Photo
