DearWife Joy is fine, but lacks the hours required to catch up on the roughly 1000 posts she's missed. She's now in her final weeks at her job, where she'll not be getting the Christmas bonus. But, they love her so much over there...
A) They'll be happy to hire her whenever she wants to work come the new year.
B) They threw her a huge shower
C) They gave many a wedding present
D) They tend to list things with letters in front of them.
OK, I don't know that this last thing has anything to do with their love of Joy.
But how about this? There was some sort of an office party there last week, and they put Joy in charge of getting the food. Now, most anyone would have called a caterer, but Joy actually went shopping, bought cheeses and vegetables (which she then chopped) and sundried foodstuffs and cooked her famous stuffed mushrooms. Then, she managed to bring all of these things to work. They paid for the food, but not Joy's cooking time, which was considerable.
I don't really understand what goes on over there, but this much seems clear: There's never been a more hard-working and committed employee in the memory of anyone who works there. (You know, I wouldn't be surprised if that Christmas bonus arrives, in spite of the broken agreement to stay until March.)
And yes, it looks like we'll Christmas in the home of the true author of some other DR's famously funny signature line...