Chachi’s Eggnog Party

This week the staff gathered at Chachi’s apartment for an eggnog party. Chachi rents the bottom floor of a cozy, but luxurious apartment building. The weird thing? The building is actually located across the street from the beach. Chachi has to pay big money to have all this snow manufactured around the clock.

Inside, Chachi was hanging out by the fire with his butler, Señor Misterioso.

At the stroke of 7:00, the employees arrived.

Derek was feeling good in his new high-waisted jeans. Then he spotted Chachi’s dashing sweater and made a mental note to purchase one of those too.

The mixing and mingling began. But there was a problem: Except for Bob, no one really cared for eggnog. And there didn’t appear to be any other food or drink available. Ted tried asking Señor Misterioso for some water, but the Señor replied with a cryptic question: “Have you ever seen a man glow in the dark?”

Ted dropped the matter.

As the evening continued, the Señor grew more mysterious, popping up in unexpected places.

The employees kept pouring more eggnog, then passing it off to Bob so he could drink it for them. Bob started wondering how much he’d consumed. One gallon? Five gallons?

Suddenly, the thought of more eggnog made him sick. And the “Happy Days” theme song, playing on an endless loop, wasn’t helping matters. Bob staggered over to the wall, on the verge of throwing up.

Then something stopped him in his tracks. Was that a picture of Chachi with Bill Clinton and Donald Rumsfeld? What the…?

Right at that moment, Chachi called everyone to gather ’round the fire.

To get everyone in a festive spirit, he told them about all the holiday things he’d done during the week. 

How he’d gone caroling with some enthusiastic singers…

Built some snowmen…

Constructed a gingerbread house…

Then ate it.

He’d even met Santa.

This made Bob think about his own not-so-festive week.

Then Chachi made an exciting announcement: He had two gifts to give out. The first was a locket with his picture in it.

Derek started to freak out. As Chachi’s number one fan, he felt he deserved that locket. He decided then and there that he would kill whoever got it.

Luckily for everyone, Chachi drew Derek’s name out of the hat.

Derek fainted.

Then Chachi drew the name for gift #2. Ann was the winner!

Alas, the gift was an enormous Santa figurine. He was wearing hunting attire and carrying a rifle.

Unfortunately, it was the same exact gift she received last year from Techie Smurf. 

What was she going to do with TWO of these things?

She couldn’t fret for long, because Chachi had one more announcement. He presented a poster that I created for the staff, instructing them to report to work the day after Christmas.

That pretty much killed the party.

Everyone gathered their things as the Señor managed to pull off one last mysterious move.

Happy holidays, employees! See you very soon.

Next week: Goal setting for 2011.