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Apr. 16th, 2004 04:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
senoritafishOur office manager retired and today is her good-bye luncheon. It's being held at a country club and there is dress code - no tanks, shorts, or denim jeans. I find it ironic that we're having a lunch at a place with a dress code more stringent than our office We did have a "no shorts" policy, only because someone came in from going running at lunchtime in their running shorts and didn't change, but the guy who came up with that has also retired, and several newer people hadn't even heard of the rule.
Jeans being my habitual attire, I had to hunt around to figure out something to wear. I finally decided on a long cotton skirt I have had for several years and a purple short sleeve sweater. *snort* Me wearing a skirt is very nearly a sign of the apocalypse. I've already gotten,"Oh, you look nice today!" several times. SO informed me the skirt looks like a Blue Fish design, which it is, but I only remember that from glancing at the tag as I put it on. I found it on a clearance rack at a store in San Juan Capistrano when Beth and I were poking around down there, quite a while ago, probaly before Angus was born. I never realized it was such a famous clothing line, one that almost seems to have a cult following. It does have neat block painted designs on it, and it's very comfortable, for a skirt. I'm sorry to find out the company no longer exists, but I don't think I could have afforded more anyway. I remember seeing similar items at Nordstrom's and they were very pricy.
Gloria's lunch was very yummy (an Italian buffet) and everyone was very emotional. She's planning on doing a lot of travelling, first to Tuscany (hence the Italian theme). Everyone contributed a page for her memory notebook, and there some made up ones from Eric Clapton, Bruce Springsteen, Clint Eastwood, and an old pic of our governator (wearing very little clothing). What was funny was there was a real letter from him, too (a form letter of course - the number of years she had worked for the state was off by five). It was very emotional, and one of her sons got too choked up to speak. She's a very sweet, helpful, efficient person, and we're all going to miss her a lot.
Jeans being my habitual attire, I had to hunt around to figure out something to wear. I finally decided on a long cotton skirt I have had for several years and a purple short sleeve sweater. *snort* Me wearing a skirt is very nearly a sign of the apocalypse. I've already gotten,"Oh, you look nice today!" several times. SO informed me the skirt looks like a Blue Fish design, which it is, but I only remember that from glancing at the tag as I put it on. I found it on a clearance rack at a store in San Juan Capistrano when Beth and I were poking around down there, quite a while ago, probaly before Angus was born. I never realized it was such a famous clothing line, one that almost seems to have a cult following. It does have neat block painted designs on it, and it's very comfortable, for a skirt. I'm sorry to find out the company no longer exists, but I don't think I could have afforded more anyway. I remember seeing similar items at Nordstrom's and they were very pricy.
Gloria's lunch was very yummy (an Italian buffet) and everyone was very emotional. She's planning on doing a lot of travelling, first to Tuscany (hence the Italian theme). Everyone contributed a page for her memory notebook, and there some made up ones from Eric Clapton, Bruce Springsteen, Clint Eastwood, and an old pic of our governator (wearing very little clothing). What was funny was there was a real letter from him, too (a form letter of course - the number of years she had worked for the state was off by five). It was very emotional, and one of her sons got too choked up to speak. She's a very sweet, helpful, efficient person, and we're all going to miss her a lot.
Gloria,
Thank you so much for all your years of helping us to collect better fisheries data, making this office run smoothly, and patient explanation of fiscal procedures to us financially challenged biologists. Also the occasional comment that caused everyone to raise their collective eyebrows and exclaim “Gloria!” (I don’t remember it exactly, but I think it was something involving whipped cream – hee hee!) Whatever will we do without you? Never mind, we’ll manage. :)
But relax and forget about all of the above. Well, maybe not forget, but file under “fond memories.” Enjoy your retirement; I don’t know many people who deserve to more.
Love from Leeanne
