Still alive and kicking!

Three tough days of celebrating the holidays and the Bears' overtime victory against a decidedly pathetic 3-10 Tampa Bay team. The Friday night party at my clients' (yes, two of them) was fun, though I was the only single person there. The party was at one of the client's homes and it was catered. The food was really good, but the desserts were really, really good! The main dessert was small cheesecake, dipped in either white, milk or dark chocolate and on a lollipop stick for easy consumption!

Saturday night I trekked out to the suburbs for a party at one of my childhood friend's house. Since the trip out there is about 45 minutes to an hour, I picked up two of my good friends and became the designated driver for the evening. Now, since we arrived at 8 and didn't leave until 12:30, I was still able to drink a little, but the last hour or so was nothing but water for me. We were even playing a drinking game and I was doing "shots" of water. Too funny.

Part of the evening was a gift exchange that allowed "stealing". It worked like this: each of the 15 people brings a wrapped gift and then draws a number. Whoever has #1 goes first and picks a gift. Then whoever has #2, yours truly in this case, can either steal the first person's gift or pick one of the remaining wrapped gifts. I opted to select a new gift and came up with these two games plus a set of glasses:















Kind of fun! Anyway, they weren't mine yet since ANYONE drawing after me could still steal my gifts and force me to pick something else. The woman who ended up with the Tera Patrick porn DVD, probably wished she had stolen my games! Nothing says Christmas like a porno! Ha!! And that wasn't even the most risque of the gifts.

My Saturday before going to the party consisted of doing some work, shopping for the tailgate on Sunday and then prepping the food for Sunday. There was going to be six of us at the tailgate, half of whom hadn't been to my tailgate before, so I wanted to make sure I made some good grub. It was pretty much my standard fare for a tailgate: egg, ham and cheese sandwiches, chili and appetizers wrapped in bacon (figs, dates and shrimp). Good eating again if I say so myself.

Unfortunately I didn't get to bed until almost 2 on Sunday morning, so the seven o'clock alarm came pretty early, intoxicated or not. One of my fellow tailgaters whom I was giving a ride, who shall be named (Ben the Bastard) was 30 minutes late and suffered my wraith the rest of the day. Don't screw with the tailgate!!! Once we arrived though, the food and alcohol flowed freely in the 50 degree weather. If you've never been, tailgating is much more enjoyable when it's warm and not windy. Today was both, so we had a great time.

Have a great week all! Don't forget, one week until Christmas!! Oh, and happy day three or four of Hanukkah! Keep those candles burning.