Playing with the photocopier

Today Mr Paperclip Man got really really bored and photocopied his bum...

And here is the result:

Miss Paperclip Lady is never going to be able to resist that!

Afternoon Tea

Today Mr Paperclip Man and Miss Paperclip Lady had their second date and enjoyed afternoon tea while I worked hard

All you need is love

Today Mr Paperclip Man and Miss Paperclip Lady went on their first date!

Mr Paperclip Man shaved his Movember Moustache for the date and brought flowers

Then he took her to the office cinema - they had their own private showing 

And then the two love-birds had dinner at a table made of staples

Finally they went for a walk along the windowsill to see the outside world, holding hands as they went.

Mr Paperclip Man Backs Himself

I must start by apologising for the title of this post - this is a reference to my Uni days and the strange strange people I knew there! So today Mr Paperclip Man worked up the courage to ask Miss Paperclip Lady out on a date! Naturally she couldn't refuse his charm (I mean who would refuse such an impressive moustache?!!)

Mr Paperclip Man asks Miss Paperclip Lady on a date

Next week we'll find out if this is the start of something exciting or if the date was a disaster that causes tension at work...

Building Tables

This week we had an Ikea delivery. Naturally this mean that we also had to work out the instructions to put up the table. We did get there in the end, although it took a few attempts to figure out what they were telling us to do.

Mr Paperclip Man tries to make sense of the instructions. 

(His moustache has grown well over Movember!)

She's Beauty and She's Grace...

Introducing Miss Paperclip Lady!

Miss Paperclip Lady arrived in the office just in time to save Mr Paperclip Man from a sticky situation with the shredder. She has been settling in to office life and has found a friend in Mr Paperclip Man. She hasn't joined him on any of his daring adventures yet... but there's still plenty of time!

Mouse surfing

Today I let Mr Paperclip Man control my mouse. He wanted to be naughty and play games...

Then he went mouse surfing!

Mr Paperclip Man is Saved

We left Mr Paperclip Man struggling to hold on to the side of the shredder faced with what could be a very sticky end. But then out of nowhere a hand was extended.

Miss Paperclip Lady had come to save him. She grabbed his hand and pulled him out of the shredder to safety. Phew! Mr Paperclip Man lives on to explore the office and now he has a new friend to explore with him!

Disaster with the shredder!

While at work today Mr Paperclip Man took a walk and fell into the shredder!

He struggled to hold on but fell further towards the spinning blades... slipping and sliding it looked as though he was going to a messy and premature end. His whole life was flashing before his eyes...


But then suddenly when it looked like all hope was gone, a small hand reached out from no where... whose hand is this? Will they reach him in time? What is to become of Mr Paperclip Man?

Dreaming of the old office..

Today Mr Paperclip Man found a picture of my old office and wanted to know why my new office isn't as awesome. I had to tell him that England doesn't really do paradise or sunshine. Here is Henry the duck sailing on Condor, reminding me of a time when I got paid to sail around the Whitsundays. I miss those days.

Ring ring ring

We got a new phone system and have had some issues getting it to work... like trying to remember how to return to a call after putting it on hold. Or how to transfer a call to somebody else. Or how to make a call to an outside line... But generally all these issues are over now. Although I did have a fun time making a spreadsheet of over 1100 phone numbers to put on our system. And by fun I mean mind-numbingly painful.

Mr Paperclip Man tries out the new phones

Movember

November is here at last, the days are getting shorter and the weather is getting rubbish (I joke, it's been rubbish for a while now). With November brings Mr Paperclip Man's moustache.

Good luck growing one as big as his!

Getting the post

Today's title sounds quite boring. But that is because you don't know what I found on an envelope this morning...

That's right, it's a letter with a moustache on it!

It seems the Royal Mail are supporting Movember (details can be found here http://uk.movember.com/) and so Mr Paperclip Man has decided he too will take part in Movember.


Guys should note that whilst the Royal Mail may support Movember, girlfriends might not be 100% behind it...

Filing

This week we spent ages trying to find a file. Eventually we found it in the filing cabinet exactly where it should be. Which was odd given that no other file in the office is actually where it's meant to be...

Mr Paperclip Man hanging out with the filing cabinet

Catapults

Today I made a catapult out of two pencils and an elastic band. I then tried to shoot scrunched up bits of paper into the desk tidy. No one noticed until I accidentally sent a ball of paper flying across the room and across a colleagues desk!

Mr Paperclip Man has a go at firing the catapult

(I should add that if he did fire it from the position he would probably hit the boss...)

That Friday Feeling

It's the weekend! I've survived my first week in office employment (just about!) and I'm appreciating the weekend. This is the first time that a weekend has made any difference to me since May 2011. Working 9 - 5 is making me appreciate the evenings a lot more and some how I seem to be a lot more productive when at home. However I would definitely take sailing over an office job any day! I was thinking fondly of those sailing trips today when I hit my head on a fire extinguisher, that's definitely something I would do on a boat. I'm hoping that the office isn't going to try to kill me quite as much as Condor did, although I imagine if I fell through the roof of the office I would have a lot more than just a bad back!

Mr Paperclip Man hanging around surveying the office from his little perch on my desk 

Doing the shredding

You know it's bad when you're having to keep yourself entertained by doing one of the most mundane of office tasks... Shredding.

Today Mr Paperclip man had a nice relaxing time amongst the shredded paper while I was hard at work.

 Where's Mr Paperclip Man?

There he is! Having a sleep

Staples staples everywhere!

Beware of the killer staplers...

Today Mr Paperclip Man had a scary encounter with a stapler.

*No paperclip men were harmed in the making of today's post*

Tea tea tea

It seems that when working in an office, people drink a lot of tea. Before this week I don't think I'd ever had more than two cups of tea a day. But it's definitely the best way to get the day started at 9 am.

A nice cup of tea makes for a great hot tub!

Mr Paperclip Man

I have recently become what I call a "real person". That means I have a 9-5 job in an office. No more messing about for me! I don't intend to be a real person all my life. Just for now while I save up money for the next big adventure and figure out what I actually want to do in the future. But for now, I have joined the millions of people there are out there that are stuck in an office for 40 hours a week. To keep myself entertained, I have created a friend. His name is Mr Paperclip Man  and together we are going to make my office a slightly more interesting place...