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Let's face it. Life can get boring and you've got to do something to spice it up. More often the not, and especially if you work in an office situation, you are doing repetitions of the same thing day after day. Here's my daily routine:

Arrive at 8:30 am, work, eat lunch 11:30 am at my desk of course, work some more, go home at 5:30 pm. Thrilling, I know. The only way I've been able to survive the long and gloomy work days is to find humor in every day things. Some may call it weird or quirky, but I think most of my team members are not only used to it now, but they secretly enjoy it. At the very least, it brings out some smiles anytime my boss asks for the staple eater instead of the staple remover.

Everyone may have different methods. Some may be to name things with proper names, like Sammy the Stapler, a classic at my desk if you can call Sammy a proper name. My all time favorites would be one of two. One, the staple eater as noted above, which came from a time I had lost my mind and couldn't remember the word remover so I came up with the next best thing. Two, PAs. Some of you may not know what a PA actually is, and it's a much more family friendly, abbreviated version of paper a-holes, which could also be defined as paper adhesives, though this doesn't make as much sense. PA has made it around my company and it really is the white or clear sticky circles with a hole in the middle that reinforce the holes you just punched in the piece of paper from ripping after too much use. PA is always a fun term to explain to the new crop of interns or staff each year.

Have no fear, such fun can be had outside of the office as well. A friend of mine named her walker, "Texas Ranger" (as in, Walker, Texas Ranger) and her walking cane "Candy" (as in Candy Cane) after a recent stint in the hospital and rehab for hip surgery. Cars can be named too. Depending on the make or style, it doesn't matter. I learned to drive in Bessie, and old Ford Tempo, which was a beast and a boat, but good old Bessie never let me down. If you run out of objects, you can always move on to people. I've had encounters with "Hawaiian Shirt Guy" at work and spent most of college drooling over "The Hottest Guy on Earth", and yes, every girl knew who was being talked about with that name.

All in all, this just means have fun with life in general. Whatever you need to do to keep yourself amused, do it. With in reason of course, but it adds a spice to life and a child like atmosphere to your life, which will ultimately make it more pleasurable for you in the end.

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