Day 42 - Fun With Phones

The theme of today was the phone.  We changed the ring tone on her office phone so it went from a normal rining kind of trill to an odd beep.  We also stashed the Eviltron that Hua-yu recently tortured all of us with in the base of her phone, but taped inside so it did not rattle or move.

Day 41 - Shelf Swap

Yesterday's Fun with Hua-Yu consisted of swapping the contents of a couple shelves in her office.

Before:

I left the top shelf alone and then switched the contents of the second and third shelves as well as the fourth and fifth shelves.

She didn't notice, so today I stepped it up a notch and went in and switched the food that was on the left side of the top shelf with the sign that was on the right.  Then she noticed....

Day 40 - Corner Lurker

This was Hua-yu's morning greeting Tuesday.


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Day 39 - Door Pouncing

A simple, but satisfying one.  It started with her door barely open and choosing to pounce into it, Tigger style, to open it rapidly rather than gradually.  Produced quite a good startle.  Then repeated a couple times of opening all the way from closed. 

Surprisingly satisfying.

Day 38 - Lockdown

Today's earned the first profanity out of Hua-yu to date.  I will skip repeating it, but she completed the phrase "you little" with a word that has been coupled with dirty before.

There are four drawers on Hua'yu's main desk, with a lock on each side to lock them.  The keys were hanging from one of them.  An obvious invitation to lock them.

 And then of course take the key.  Twoie says that vengeance is sweet:

I did tell her where they were when she texted me with that phrase followed by "where are my keys," so we have further proof that I'm a nice person.


I'm going to be out tomorrow, so I'm glad that HEN 1, 3 & 4 united for a little extra for Hua-yu today at lunch.  Hua-yu had started to get her food setup when she ran back to her office, leaving her food and her phone out.  So, they took the phone and took a picture of HEN 1 doing this:

Hua-yu was not told until AFTER she had finished.  And yes, the picture was on HER phone.

Day 37 - Hand Sanitizer Drop

While I was out of town for a conference, I was still thinking of Hua-yu and so I picked up these hand sanitizers from a vendor and dropped them off in her office for Wednesday's fun:

Then for a little bonus, I paid Hua-yu for getting me lunch a bit creatively:

I left these in her chair.  They're supposed to be a spider, a picture frame, a basket, a guitar and music notes.

Day 36 - Buggy Office

I was out of the office at the beginning of the week, so I didn't anticipate any Fun with Hua-yu, but the Helper Elves took it on themselves to do Monday and create a buggy office:

Day 35 - Fish Executioner Fax Friday

Hua-yu was notified she had a fax in front and came up to receive the following:

The one on the left is covered with a sheet with a toe tag.  I'm not visually very creative...

And here's the fax:

Day 34 - Picture on Desk

This is another one that seemed like it wouldn't be much and then was a big hit.  HEN 1 was reading people and came across the following as the first page:

So, she had me go put it on Hua-yu's office to be seen first thing.

I found the other side amusing as well:

Day 33 - Guidance to Desk

Day 32 - Working in Hua-yu's Office

This was the sight that greated Hua-yu when she got in this morning.

I was working at her computer while chatting with Helper Elf Number Three like it was my office. 

Got a great big laugh out of Hua-yu.


Speaking of Hua-yu's laugh, I forgot to upload some pictures from a bonus last week.  HEN 1 mentioned that she really wished I'd videoed Hua-yu when I greeted her from under her desk, and so we decided to go hide in her office to give her the experience.  I hid flush with the wall next to a bookcase so I couldn't be seen from the door and HEN 1 hid behind the door.  Then we greeted Hua-yu when she came in along with HEN 2.

I still didn't think to video or record it for some reason, but I did get a number of pictures of her response during her recovery:

Day 31 - Things Gradually Disappear

Hua-yu is known for not noticing things, but she surprised us with this one!  Today's thing was a gradual removal of objects from her office.  I started it off with the removal of her tape dispenser (green man shaped guy in some of the pictures) and then sent out an email to a half-dozen interested parties encouraging them to grab any non-critical items from her office.

The second thing removed was a camel figurine that Hua-yu has on her desk and she somehow immediately noticed this! 

Despite the gig technically being up so early, we opted to persevere and continue to remove items.  One enterprising soul took her hand sanitizer though and this led to Hua-yu going on a hunt throughout the office to find it.  Hand sanitizer apparently crosses a line!  She came to my office asking about the hand sanitizer, and while I didn't have it, I did give her the tape dispenser that she didn't know was missing.

When Hua-yu went to lunch, some enterprising souls took the time to attach three of her items to rubber bands and hang them from the ceiling and back of her office door.  And they even took pictures and sent them to me! However, my phone is refusing to send them by email or upload them to the picasa dropbox no matter what I try. 

(I had to do it by email because the USB ports on my computer weren't working, but I just had the brilliant idea to try the ones on the back, so here are the pictures I was sent:)

Day 30 - Mousing Around

Day 29 - Lights Out

A simple one.  Throughout the day, at least five separate people turned off her light, some more than once.  Ranged from turning it off as leaving after conversing, knocking, sticking a hand in, turning it off and closing the door to simply turning it off while she was out of the office.  One entrepreneurial soul even turned off the kitchen light on her.

For some reason this title makes me think of "heads down, thumbs up," so here is some enjoyable reading for you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Up_(game).

Day 28 - Side Chair Color Change

I had to be out of the office this morning, so I came in last night to get some work completed.  As long as I was there, I decided to get Wednesday's Fun with Hua-yu task out of the way. 

A number of us got new chairs at the same time for our offices.  Each person got a desk chair and two side chairs in one of several colors.  Hua-yu got grey.  HEN 3 was actually the only person who got blue.  HEN 3 was out on vacation, so I switched the side chairs in their two offices.

Before:

Hua-yu's Original Side Chairs

HEN 3's Original Side Chairs

Hua-yu's Office Before

HEN 3's Office Before

After:


Hua-yu's Office After



HEN 3's Office After

At this point, there was a debate over whether I should switch the desk chairs as well.  My reasoning for just doing the side chairs is I thought it would take her longer to notice.  HEN 3 noticed immediately on seeing a picture of her office and thought that Hua-yu would notice regardless of what I did.  I decided that given the argument that it might take her longer to notice plus the fact that changing desk chairs could impact productivity, I would just do the side chairs.

Hua-yu did not notice.  At all.  Then HEN 1 couldn't stand it anymore and gave her a hint to sit and think about it.  Hua-yu asked what we'd done to her chair and after getting the answer of nothing, finally looked around enough to notice the chairs!  This was in the late afternoon!

Day 27 - Morning Desk Greeting

This morning found me sitting under Hua-yu's desk for about five minutes. I was hoping she would come in during the time it took me to eat a cupcake (thank you HEN 1) and read some emails and I was in luck!

I actually purposefully set out to not scare her, or at least scare her as little as possible, so when she came in, I simply stuck my head out and softly said, "hi" when she turned the corner to her desk. Still resulted in her screaming at top volume and spilling part of a glass of water!

She took a picture of me then:




And of some of the water:




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Day 26 - Bruise Blame Game

I have a bruise on my arm:




It looks kind if like The Scream up-close:




The game of the day was a mix of actually telling people that Hua-yu did it (it was amazing how easily this was believed. I think I clinched it was comments about how I must have low iron. Somehow this sold the deal) and making her think I had told more people than I actually had.

PS no, Hua-yu did not actually cause this bruise.

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Day 25 - Fish Cleaning

You may remember #2 from previous days.  Well, today's was a simple one.  I cleaned his bowl.  Failed to take any before pictures for some reason though, so maybe I should have come up with something else.  Oh well!

He was very active post the change.  Not sure if it was the raised water level, increased oxygenation or just the absence of filth, but Twoey (seems to be the name Hua-yu is settling on) seems happy.

I must have had more Catholic exposure than I thought, because I apparently associate Fridays with fish.


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Day 24 - Drink Backfire

So, Hua-yu has been trying to make me healthy for a while.  And by healthy, I mean very minor things.  Like walk a few steps or only drink one Dr. Pepper a day.  Really quite reasonable things.  Sleep continuous hours, ya know...

Well, this week we somehow got off to the idea of not drinking any Dr. Pepper for the full week which was going swimmingly until this morning when I was having ice cream cake for breakfast (this probably deserves a comment, but I'm going to overlook it) and just felt compelled to have a Dr. Pepper.  I buzzed her and asked if making it half a week really was good progress and so I could have one.  Helper Elf Number 1 then giggled and decided I should have a Dr Pepper at all times she saw me for the rest of the day.

Hua-yu then ran into the kitchen to chastise me for my Dr. Pepper (despite my asking permission) and HEN 1 proceeded to get me a series of Dr. Pepper's until I had had three in the time we were in the kitchen.  We also told her I had already had one before she got there.
I had one in my office so I could be drinking one whenever she stopped by and I also appeared to drink a number at lunch.

Others supported by making comments to her about seeing me double fisting them and the like.  At the end, I believe we had her sold that I had consumed 15.
The backfiring?  None of them tasted right for some reason and whether or not it's related, I got a noxious headache.  argh.  I actually probably drank somewhere between two and three of them.  Definitely not wanting one today (i.e. there's even one sitting on my desk unopened from yesterday and I've felt no desire to reach for it).

Oops!  Nearly forget, it was in honor of junk food day!

Day 23 - Talk to the Chest

This was an unintentional one.  I stopped by her office early in the morning, just looking for inspiration, and Hua-yu was there.  Her shirt was somehow falling oddly which resulted in me talking to her chest rather than her face.  Decided to run with it and so did so all day including a company "cake day".  While a couple others did as well, I think she only noticed HEN 1. 

It was harder than I thought because she was wearing shorter heels than normal, so while she was standing it was awkward for me to talk to her chest.

Oh well!

Day 22 - Client/Directory Change

Simple, but effective.

I went in this mornign with the intent of doing one thing (which I shouldn't write in case I want to later) and instead founda nother idea.  I simply logged onto Hua-yu's computer, under my own account, opened a different directory in some industry specific software we use (to the client I'm currently working on in fact) and changed her printer settings to my printer.

Simple, but effective.

It helped that she didn't realize we could logon to any of the machines in the office, so was puzzled as to how I had done this!

Day 21 - Scent Exchange

Another switch/exchange.

Helper Elf Number 1 sells scentsy, so we all have a fair bit around here, including Hua-yu.




This is the scent pak she has in her office, the scent is French Lavender. I set off to switch the scent of it.





First step was to get two scent paks, one in the scent Hua-yu has been using and one in another random scent that HEN 1 had around.

These are filled with beads, so I set out to empty each of them as a first step.




I took a seam ripper to the hanging corner of the lavender one thinking it would be the easiest to close up since that is where it originally was done. I quickly learned a first lesson: if wanting to do things on two similar items where I will then use one, try the "other" first.

Almost every step resulted in me figuring out a better way to do the second one. Main negative with my original opening is that the hanging strap and tag also came off. I decided to ignore the tag, but it turned out I shouldn't. Then I dumped the balls into a plastic container.





I got smarter with the second one and I opened it along the bottom which allowed me to not have to deal with the tag and hanger and also made it much easier to pour out the beads!





Then I was left with two empty sacs and two plastic containers of balls.




Notice the different color of the balls, this will be significant later.

Next step was to refill the lavender one with the sweet pea vanilla balls. This was hard.




First attempt was with a piece of paper as a funnel. This didn't work as the paper would collapse or it fell our of the hole in the bag. Or both.




Second attempt was a straw. This would work, but would take absolutely forever. I then thought to use the paper with the straw down it to keep the whole open. While this didn't actually work, it did inspire the final solution that worked:




File folder funnel!

I ignored the other one and just set off to sew the one I was taking to her office then. I opted to sew the hanger back on but leave out the tag under the theory of who cares. Here's what it looked like:





Set off to her office and placed in position.




Notice the color is different from the original:





I walked back to Hua-yu's office with her after lunch because I needed to borrow a cord and she immediately noticed the different smell. She started looking for it, but couldn't find anything. This included looking at the scent pak, but my work passed initial inspection.

Only upon a repeat inspection of everything based on the guilt on my face did she notice the color was wrong. But she convinced herself it had always been that color.

Another two or so rounds of looking through everything and she noticed my stitch job and then commented that it didn't smell right.

She came and got her original lavender one and I also gave her the one with lavender on the inside, but sweet pea packaging:





She seemed to really think I should switch the balls back, but that was NOT happening!

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