Sumo Party!

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Thanks to everybody who came out to the Sumo Party--I think it went quite well this year. And I actually got to see most of it, since for once I prepped most of the sumo soup chopped ingredients beforehand. Though I showed up late (3:00 PM) for my own party since I had a baby shower to attend first. Fu Manchu was quite the star of the party, with people making special kitten-viewing expeditions. He was very cuddly and sleepy the next day; I think all his feist got used up Saturday. Phil and I had kimono robes, and I managed to tie my obi, sort of. There were some kick-ass sumo matches in this year's natsu basho! We had a pretty good turnout, maybe a couple dozen people, though I forgot to count at peak. Almost all the sumo soup was consumed, which is a first. There were rice cakes and Asian beer and sake and an assortment of pickled things and sumo wrestler eclairs and giant pocky and durian candy and jelly cups in giant animal- and human-shaped tubs. Andre and his wife won for "most interesting food" by bringing pickled eggplant, daikon radish, oniony things, and cucumber/eggplant mix. bitwise and tesla_aldrich won best dressed for a lovely mandarin-collar blue sheath dress and a matching wrap shirt (not respectively). We watched 10 days worth of sumo matches. The last people left at 5:55 AM, when I woke up and realized that there were still people here and proceeded to kick them out!

The party went well, the cleanup was not too bad, but I'm rather annoyed that my dishwasher chose the very next morning to stop working! Again.