Weekend wrapup

[mamagotcha]

The gathering on Friday night went beautifully, despite losing several guests to illness. In addition to the white bean soup, I also made a black bean veggie soup that went over pretty well. We had some of the olive & rosemary bread from Fervere, several bottles of wine (thanks, Laurie & Cheryl & Raegan!), a loaf of homemade polenta/sage bread (thanks, Anne!), spicy hummus with naan and snap peas (thanks, Tamara!), Christopher Elbow hot chocolate and peppermint bark, Shatto egg nog, hot spiced cider, several cheeses, pistachios, spinach dip... Clayton and I have been nibbling on the leftovers all weekend. Hmm... I wasn't trying for localvore status, but it looks like that was a very KC-based meal!

There actually was some knitting and crafting done, too, with conversation that ranged from amusing to astounding. There was a pubic hair topic that led to a viewing of the dream sequence from "The Big Lebowski." Raegan stayed until about 2 a.m. looking through birth books and helping a lot with clean-up (bless you, R!)

I went to a local bloggers' community service event at Harvesters on Saturday (Clay came but felt like he'd been pushed into it... I wound up taking him home after an hour of pouting, but we stopped and got him some more art supplies and had a good talk). I rejoined the bloggers for the tour and afterparty, where we sampled some excellent homemade vanilla porter (very festive, Dan!) and I was able to indulge in even more adult conversation... movies, books, tattoos (one gal recounted a gathering of drunk tattoo artists, who were drawing mustaches on the sides of their index fingers to be used as "disguises"... simultaneously a brilliant and awful idea!). I got to meet a number of local bloggers... it was very cool to put faces to the names I've read. And it turns out that Dan's not nearly as scary as you might think... yeah, he's got fangs and growls a bit, but he seems to floss and be totally housebroken.

Called my mom and wished her a happy 75th birthday. Julia had put together a party, complete with a homemade cake, for her.

Watched another set of Jeeves & Wooster episodes with Clay when I got home. It was three episodes of J&W visiting New York, which was pretty enlightening regarding how the British viewed prohibition America.

Sunday was pretty lazy... read the paper, did some online Christmas shopping, zipped over to Legends (disappointing... another outdoor mall with the same-old-same-old junk stores), put up the tree, watched some Penn & Teller's Bullshit and played Animal Crossing with Clay. We snagged a new memory card so we could build a new town so we could get oranges... the only fruit we were missing. It took five or six tries to generate a citrus-producing town, which took far longer than I anticipated. But look out, MinuteMaid, we're in business now!

Today, not much so far. Writing this and adding some local writers to the blog list, gearing up to head out to the gym, gonna visit some homeschoolers doing bellringing at the Plaza, take Clay to gymnastics tonight (and maybe finish knitting some presents?), decorate the tree some more.

The air smells strongly of ozone, everything is dry and zappy and cold. I'd really rather stay here and read a book and wipe out the spinach dip, but I don't want to sabotage my progress. Time to get my butt in gear!

Comments

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you had a nice party! Ours went pretty well, too. I put up crepe paper and balloons all over the place and about nine old ladies showed up and chattered away until Grandma pooped out and sent them home. She lasted about two hours, though, which is good for her. And they were all unanimous about the excellence of the cake- I couldn't try it because I put non-vegan things in, but it vanished pretty quickly. I forgot to get a picture. :/ Anyhow, Grandma was grateful, and she said her friends were impressed that I put so much work into it.

[mamagotcha.livejournal.com]

You da party BOSS!

Thank you for all your hard work, especially during your crazy work hours. I know she appreciates it!