20 Ways I could make work more fun today

I love lists!  I also hope that you love lists, because this is at least the second one this week.  Lately, I've been grumbling a bit about having to go to work each day.  So, I thought I'd come up with some ways to make work more fun today.  Remember, these are ways to make work more fun for me.  Other people may suffer.  Let this be a warning to the people at the office who read this post before I get in!

1. Every tenth visitor to my cube-like area gets a balloon-animal!
2. End every sentence with the phrase, "ya' know what I mean?" and insist they actually know what I mean. Do you know what I mean?
3. Wear my mullet wig all day.  Sometime in the last couple of weeks on one of the St. Louis blogs, someone (my memory is failing me!) mentioned mullet wigs.  I actually HAVE one.  Seriously.
4. Fill in all the circles on the letters "o", "p", "b", "q", and the half-circle of the letter "e" on all of my boss's power-point files, making the presentations look like sheet-music.
5. Decorate my cube-like area as a tiki bar. Sell tropical drinks.
6. Intentionally call everyone by the wrong name.
7. Remove the ink cartridges from everyone's pens.
8. Frisbee golf from one end of the office to the other.
9. Talk to everyone through my sock puppet, "Goldie."
10. Translate all my email responses to another language via Babelfish before sending the email.
11. #10 in Russian: (you may need the proper fonts installed!)
    Переведите все мои реакции электронной почты к другому языку через Babelfish перед посылкой электронной почты
12. During meetings, pretend to drop my pen and tie everyones shoes together while I "look" for my pen.
13. Sing songs from "The Music Man" at the top of my lungs.  That's right, imagine me running around the office, wearing my mullet wig, filling in letters on power-point presentations, singing "Pick a Little, Talk a Little."  I'll give you a minute to let that image sink in.
14. Practice playing the cowbell in a bathroom stall...you know...for the cool reverb!
15. Stick post-it notes all over the office, with each one indicating where the next post-it note is.
16. Wear scuba-flippers.
17. Put a desk in the elevator, put a sign on the desk saying "information", sit behind the desk. Anytime someone calls for the elevator and the doors open, ask, "can I help you?"
18. Setup a camp stove on my desk and make omelets to order.
19. Insist everyone address me as "conquistador." (OK, this was stolen from some comedian, but it's such a good idea, I'm using it anyway).
20. Decorate my boss's office in a Disney Princess Theme. Play Disney Princess music on his CD player.

Now, off to work!

Comments

[Andrea]

If you do even one of these things, you're officially my favorite person. This list is awesome!

[Gregg]

So far, I've been having great fun translating emails to German and then back to English. The resulting jumbled mess is generally hilarious. Additionally, someone else at work has picked up on this and is using the technique to take poorly asked questions from someone, responding on email saying, "Do you mean this..." and then tacking on the twice translated message.

It's been great!

Also, I have spent some time with the mullet wig, but have been too gutless to leave my work area with it.

I'd really like to do the elevator thing.

[Gregg's Homegirl-daughter]

Daddy you need to do that kind of stuff at home more often. Oh and the desk thing you have got to do it, and speaking of missing pen ink things that happened to all my pens at school not kidding.