Holiday Events

We've been to five parties so far, will miss a bunch this weekend and still have one to go.

We started it with the John Aielli's Capitol Sing Along last Saturday. The weather was perfect--wintery cold without being unbearable. We hooked up with the Trenthams and had a good time. The sing-along was OK--they had too many holiday-pop songs and not enough carols for my taste. And Aielli's attempts to have the crowd do difficult songs a-capella was a bit misguided.

Sunday was the annual Burgess party, again to perfect weather. The food was great, although by the time the chilli was ready, I had stuffed myself with appetizers and couldn't eat any.

On Monday we went to Zilker to carol around the Holiday Tree with some old-time Madrigallians and to celebrate Kayla's birthday. Kudos to Cecily for organazing this--it's always one of my favority holiday events. We brought Homer along and he was a big hit with all the kids, partially due to his cool blinking light.

Wednesday was Jfer's company party at Castle Hill Cafe. Their company has grown significantly since last year's party. And it's got a nice vibe--Heidy must be doing a good job.

Yesterday was Christmas/birthday party for Courtney and Matthew at Elizabeth's. As always, she was a great hostess and the food was delicious. Some gifts were unwrapped and i scored some pretty cool loot. The biggest hit was probably the Alcohol Breath Analyzer we got Rita. I don't think it serves it's intended purpose, though, since everyone tries to see how high they can get it to register (maybe that's why it tops out at 0.12%). I was disappointed that the alarm clock that I gave Jfer lasted less than an hour before the light burning out. Luckily it's one of the few presents I bought locally.

We only have the book Group party to go to on the eve of our trip. I'll miss out on my company party (we only got a final time and date yesterday). It's probalby not going to be as cool as last year's, anyway.