Love Rug Pen Triage & Paradigm Shifts

Tonight was the retirement dinner for the GM at Striker's work. Woo hoo!!! We got to dress up and hang out with adults! Grandma and Oma babysat. The evening's highlights can be taken from my Facebook statuses:
-Shortly after arriving, I nicknamed someone "The Love Rug". His last name is Love and both myself and someone on Striker's staff believe he was wearing a (bad) rug.
-As I sat there as the "spouse", I thought of all the times I dragged Striker to my work events at the Staples Center, Cabo San Lucas, Dominican Republic...and I got to go to Sierra Lakes Country Club in Fontana...yay for public employees! ;)
-There were Sharpie paint pens on the tables for everyone to sign photo mats for a scrapbook for the retiree. Striker uncapped our pen and the point fell out. I grabbed the pieces, reassembled, performed triage, and got it working. Later someone came by and asked how we got it to work. They might all be water people, but I am still an office supplies person. Pen triage is a valuable skill, which I will be putting on my resume.
-There were MANY speakers and a fair amount of roasting. I sort of glazed over, but when I heard someone say "paradigm shift" I had to supress my urge to yell "BINGO!" as that's almost a guaranteed winner in Corporate Buzzword Bingo.

Overall, it was a fun night out with the hubby. We got dressed up, enjoyed adult conversation and beverages, and I got my business fix for at least another 6 months.