bellatif's blog post - New Year drinks

Okay Okay, so I know its been FOREVER since I've blogged. And for those of you who may still read this, yes, I am alive!
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First to all, a HAPPY NEWYEAR. Hope all your wishes can come true.
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This will be the year with lots of changes for me. Beginning with next week: starting at my new job. Pretty exciting and damn time I got something to do. I have found out that I need to be busy. Like yesterday, I stayed in all day, was to lazy to even make dinner. And that's really not me thing, to have a quiet day. So today I decided to get extra busy. First stop was my new office. There were having a big new years drink. And it's always fun to get together with u new colleagues.

I work in a very formal environment. Meaning, men wear suits, and girls don't come in on flip flops. Short, those drinks are not often very exciting. And mostly very formal.

Arriving there I took the elevator to my floor. Thought of hooking up with my colleagues before heading off to the party. Just like the elevator doors open, I see like two guys coming out the doorway. Dressed like they were figuring in one of the Godfather movies. You know, black suits, black tie, white shirts and sunglasses. Finishing with a black hat.

Apparently one department came up with there own theme, and it was 'De Niro' or the Winggles. Yah, don't ask me who the Winggles are. And my floor?? They didn't had a theme. Yah, so need to change that next year.

Anyhow, the new year drink started a bit later. And it felt a bit like high school. Like you have the ICT devision besides the Assurance and Tax. The cool guys besides cooler guys. And me the 'new kid of the block'. Oooh well, didn't take long before I was going from one group to another. And eventually I hooked up with the 'De Niro's'. They are actually an interesting bunch of lads (for legal experts).

As the afternoon went bye the jokes became funnier and the beer started to kick in. Not with me thou, I stayed with some (orange) juices and just 2 beers. Yep, unlike others that drink 12 beers in a row. I'm the sober girl. Hmmmmm.....

As the beer was kicking in the conversations went from work stuff to eventually the Sydney aquarium. And while I was chatting about my last aquarium visit, one of the ‘De Niro's ‘interrupted me. Asking if I had seen the office aquarium. And when he told me the fish were piranha’s... First I was like serious?? Then the oooooh followed... Hearing how they fed them with little meat pieces. Once a week. Oooooh, I was so into this piranha talk. Asking questions like what kind of meat, and who cleans the aquarium. And even silly questions like, would it be safe to put ur arm in, or ... would you end up at the emergency. I honestly must say I was fascinated. And when one of the guys asked me if I wanted to have a peek, I could only say... Yah, finally u asking me.

And when I walked into the office space, seeing this enormous fish tank I was... this is fucking coooool. I so wanted to feed them. Standing there with the hole legal division behind me I started to look in the fish tank. I saw red fishes, small tiny fishes, yellow fishes...Hmmmm...

Still fascinated by the hole fish tank I asked like 'Don't they eat the other fishes??' When no answer followed I was like... hmmmmmm.
I looked around me, and ooooooooh... I started to laugh, together with the guys. At that moment my orange juice started to kick in. Laughing, telling them they are all dicks. Fucking around with me like that. Another guy tried to prolong the joke, by telling me the goldfishes must have eaten the pirana's. But yah, I just couldn't stop laughing anymore. Silly me! Yah, those legal guys are funny ones.

This evening I told bf all about my new years drink. And while he was laughing he was like, ‘u so easy’. And yah, I must admit, they really had my going. I can just imagine what my nickname will be... the fish lady.. or mrs goldfish...or…little piranha…