If I could drink, I'd have a hangover right about now
Social Life
'Twas a marvellous party yesterday -- I think my most successful in 10 years. Last year, the highlight was the treats montrealais concocted, but greatly suffered from poor planning -- a two-day open-house ensured that no one arrived at the same time.
Things were pretty crowded last night, at least by the standards of entertaining here. I'm getting much better at dealing with crowds of people and loud noises -- I haven't had a panic attack in about a year -- so next year I might open it up not just to friends, but to friends-of-friends.
We'll see if we can fit that many people in this apartment, which is large but uses space strangely (the bedrooms are gargantuan, and the living room is tiny).
Thanks to everyone who came, and thank you for the gifts. I loved every gift I got, so maybe I'm not as hard to buy for as I thought I was.
Being inundated with manga is not a bad thing, the books were great (your friends really know you when you get the only two books by a favourite author you don't own, on the same night), and montrealais's homemade project was both thoughtful and beautiful. Also, I want the recipe for melting_penguin and bananality's Easter-egg-chocolate-chunk cookies.
'Course, no one's going to see me much for the next month, thanks to em_fish's and rougemacabre's gift. If you don't ever see me again, it's your own fault :p
'Twas a marvellous party yesterday -- I think my most successful in 10 years. Last year, the highlight was the treats montrealais concocted, but greatly suffered from poor planning -- a two-day open-house ensured that no one arrived at the same time.
Things were pretty crowded last night, at least by the standards of entertaining here. I'm getting much better at dealing with crowds of people and loud noises -- I haven't had a panic attack in about a year -- so next year I might open it up not just to friends, but to friends-of-friends.
We'll see if we can fit that many people in this apartment, which is large but uses space strangely (the bedrooms are gargantuan, and the living room is tiny).
Thanks to everyone who came, and thank you for the gifts. I loved every gift I got, so maybe I'm not as hard to buy for as I thought I was.
Being inundated with manga is not a bad thing, the books were great (your friends really know you when you get the only two books by a favourite author you don't own, on the same night), and montrealais's homemade project was both thoughtful and beautiful. Also, I want the recipe for melting_penguin and bananality's Easter-egg-chocolate-chunk cookies.
'Course, no one's going to see me much for the next month, thanks to em_fish's and rougemacabre's gift. If you don't ever see me again, it's your own fault :p