shirenomad | Fight! For your right! To PAAAAAARRRRTY!

The past week or so was busy... mostly with Christmas parties, which apparently come in packs. It started last Wednesday with the office party, and we've really stepped up from last year: rented out a conference room, catering, and open bar at the local Hyatt Regency. About 60 to 80 guests (I think one nameless director brought eight family members *smirk*) I actually prefer the food from the year before, though -- it's hard to go wrong with pasta, whereas this year we got an odd combination of fish and chicken (with some admittedly delicious lobster bisque to start us off, though Allen said it was too buttery for his liking). Also, no fabulous prizes to be won. But the mood was great and so was the company.

Prizes waited until Saturday, when the 20-somethings at church got together for some honey-baked ham (a good amount of which I got to take home and make sandwiches out of for a few days). Also spiced cider, conversation (both spiritual and otherwise), and a present exchange at the end, in which I wound up with $15 of iTunes music I still need to spend.

Apparently that wasn't enough for these party-holic Presbyterians; the bible studies got together Monday for yet another dinner, this time at Troy and Nora's (with some INCREDIBLY good potatoes). And just to round things out, Thursday morning the office complex had a Christmas brunch open to everyone working in the building (pineapple... YUM). So in short, these were the two weeks where everyone conspired to fatten me up.