Two of the girls that I work with have the same first name and that name is ‘Cassie’ (except without the quotation marks). We have tried an assortment of methods to distinguish one ‘Cassie’ from the other ‘Cassie’. Sometimes we add the last initial and say ‘Cassie C.’ which sounds like ‘CasSeeSee’ and then the other Cassie goes by ‘C-Dubya’, but this method requires that we remember last names and due to the four holes in my head (where the babies came out) I can’t remember last names anymore. I find that adjectives are far more helpful to me so sometimes I refer to one Cassie as ‘Curly Cassie’ while the other Cassie is ‘Straight Cassie’ but oh dear… that doesn’t sound quite right… maybe it would be better to consider ‘Crazy Cassie’ and then um… ‘Sane Cassie’ – no that doesn’t sound very good. How about ‘Quiet Cassie’ and um… ‘Loud’… or no wait… ‘Not Quite as Quiet…’ or er… um…. so you can see that the adjectives don’t work very well either. So eventually, I have settled on using the places that the Cassies come from to describe them and so there’s nice and safe ‘Alaska Cassie’ and then the ‘never going to upset anyone by even sounding slightly insulting’, ’Kansas City Cassie’. Phew! That was a close one!
Even though the two Cassies are very different from each other, their identical names have resulted in the two of them developing their own special language which greatly entertains the rest of us. For instance, if they don’t understand what a customer wants they call this ‘Cassie Confusion’. When they can’t solve a customer’s problem they call this a ‘Cassie Conundrum’. When the store is really busy and the phone is ringing off the hook and then the cash register breaks down, this is of course ‘Cassie Chaos’ and can often result in a ‘Cassie Catastrophe’, however if they can fix the cash register, they are oh so ‘Cassie Clever’. So, when one of the Cassies threw a party last week – it could only be called one thing – ‘Cassie Christmas’.
And of course there was a white elephant gift exchange.
Of which the prize gift was a hand crafted, pink poodle, jar cover… thingy.
Which Alaska Cassie was lucky enough to get in the first round.
And then quickly swiped by ‘K.C. Cassie’ in the next round.
At which point, I took the poodle for myself.
Because – clearly.
And then ‘Cursed Cassie’ stole it back!
And I ended up with this dumb old beer can hat.
And I decided that I was the victim of a ‘Cassie Calamity’!
So I threw a ‘Cassie Conniption!’
And my name isn’t even Cassie!
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The Other Non-Cassie Attendees
Myra
AnneMarie – you might remember her from last year’s episode of the sparkly bow.
AnneMarie and Liz
‘Criminal Cassie’ with Darla and Melissa.
Examining a house plant because that is what plant people do at parties… when they are not stealing each other’s poodles.
These were the delicious won-ton, sausage, cheese, appetizers that ‘Cruel Cassie’ made for the party. They were really good. I found a similar recipe here – but I feel it imperative to note that ‘Cantankerous Cassie’ added red bell pepper to her version.
The Country Doctor models the beer can hat.
Holy Crap!
It’s almost Christmas!
What am I doing sitting at my computer!
Merry Merry – Joy Joy,
Rechelle
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