As there were only a few, yours truly was replacing them, rather than spending more of my company’s money having it done professionally. I'm big hea...rted like that. The only way I could get at the wretched box was to lie on my back under her workstation. The alternative was to shift a damned heavy desk having cleared all her kit off it first. I'm idle and I chose the easy route. Maggie hadn't been in the office when I had started the work, a good reason for getting on with it. It really wasn't. I looked at my watch, seeing hands strike midnight.As I looked up, silver and white shrouded the hall, and neither Rachyl nor Santa was anywhere in sight. I failed to see anything or anyone, including the rest of the partygoers. A sudden maelstrom had hit, obscuring everything in sight.*****Around 5:00a Christmas Day, I awoke to the jingling of bells. I even heard what I swore was snorting, nickering, and whinnying outside. Shaking my head to clear the newness of arousal, I could only remember. I politely told her that I would have asked her out, but that she was still seeing her longtime boyfriend. "Well," she said, "I am not seeing him now." Her eyes were now staring straight into mine and I could feel myself getting slightly warmer, and not from the tea! I looked at her and said that she was a very attractive woman, but that I was dating Debbie now. She looked saddened by my response. Looking back now, I know exactly why Brandy did what she did. But being a recently single man. Ow stop judging your reading this