P3 christmas lunch

So we had our branch christmas lunch today. I wanted to walk with Nunjo, so when we were about to leave, I went to her office to wait for her. But by the time we got out of the building, I had somehow ended up walking with Moira and Rat. Then they decided to catch the monorail, so I walked with Mario and Alex, while Nunjo walked with the new girl Fiona.

I was making chit chat, but I knew deep down that the seating would be oh so crucial. Luckily, there was a spot right across from Nunjo and next to Fiona. Bingo!

I sat down and everything was good. Anne sat next to Nunjo so there was plenty of talk. I was however, surprised by her snapping at the waiter. I always thought she was an extremely nice person until that moment. Now my perception of her has changed.

Nothing special was really talked about between me and Nunjo, just normal stuff. I actually talked to Mario quite a bit, who was sitting to my right. Found out he's actually 34, wow, and I always thought he was around my age or even younger.

Towards the end, I noticed Nunjo was slowing down with her noodles. I wondered if she didn't like it or if she was just full. I asked her and she asked me if I wanted some. I said no twice and she insisted. So then I gave her my bowl and she used her fork to give me some. I was soooooo happy inside!

As I ate the noodles, I felt like I was swooning. I was melting inside. I felt like my crush on her had re-ignited.

After we ate, we had the secret santa thing. I was looking forward to my present, and also wanted to see Jacqueline's reaction to mine. She didn't seem like she knew what it was, as she kept giving it to DS to have a look, lol. I was a bit disappointed with mine - someone gave me a box of chocolates. It was disappointing for two reasons: 1) a lot of other people received chocolates and; 2) it felt like there wasn't much thought put into it. It seemed kinda like "I don't know what he likes, so I'll just get him chocolate".

After we paid, some of us hung around a bit. I kept eating those nice biscuit thingys made by Briony as I listened and watched Nunjo talk. Rat talked about me a bit, about how many briefs I did in P2, and I felt a little embarassed as I could see Nunjo looking at me. In hindsight, I should've turned it back on Rat by saying it was her fault since she was the one who taught me how to do them.

I noticed Nunjo's lips were beginning to 'droop' down, as age does to old people. But I still thought she looked kinda cute. Women definitely start going downhill from about 32 onwards.

There was a moment where, I can't really remember what led to it, but Ogre teased me by saying "stop sucking up to Nunjo". I had nothing to say because I was embarassed. I wasn't sucking up to her; I liked her. I wonder if Ogre was off the spot, or if that was her teasing me about liking Nunjo.

Afterwards they wanted to go for drinks, but I wanted to go back to the office. Rat said she was going home, and I thought we'd be walking in the same direction so I asked her if she wanted to share my chocolate, and then Briony said that sounded like a date. Hmmm.

Anyway, I went back to the office and turns out Rat came back as well. I had a bit of a chat with Mary about the lunch, and then got into a three way with Rat, and found out some neat info, like:

- Chris was probably Moira's secret santa;
- Mary was Rat's secret santa;
- Rat was Ogre's secret santa;
- Mario was Nunjo's secret santa;
- Rat said Katie and Yoshi were older than her! Like 30 something!!!

Fuck me.

I went to the gym afterwards. The girl I was going to meet on Friday for a date cancelled, so I now have a bit more money for myself, and I spent the gym session wondering what I should do with it.

I went to David Jones after that to see what I could buy, since Ele said she has a 10% discount card, but they weren't really having a sale, and everything was fucking expensive. I went to Myer and nothing had changed from last time. No Christmas sales, nothing!