‘Twas the Night Before Feastivus
Tomorrow awaits. Feastivus dawns! I still have to clean top to bottom, prep food and get a-cooking. I see why people hire caterers for this kind of stuff!
It makes me wonder how my sisters and mother successfully threw many a holiday party our our families and their in-laws over the years. They never seemed this stressed out! The older I get, the more I realize how amazing those three women are. Never a ruffled feather, those ones. I, on the other hand, have this nawing feeling that I am teetering on the brink of disaster.
Our final headcount: 12 people! Well, 13, but our friend Julie is just stopping by for a cocktail before she catches a flight out of town. So 12 eaters, 13 total.
Our table doesn’t even fit more than 6! I think I am taking a page out of this Rita Konig article, Let’s Eat In, and am going to pile a bunch of pillows on the floor and have everyone cozy up on the rug. I’ll act like this was intentional… Feastivus is an intimate, shabby chic kind of affair! Perhaps that will also explain the paper plates? (sheepish)
All stressing aside, I am just excited to see all our friends, and figure as long as there is lots of food, booze and warm company, everyone will have a good time even though we don’t have fancy plates and there are not enough chairs.
As a Feastivus preview, this is how full our fridge is after FOUR HOURS of grocery shopping today! We went to a bunch of different stores to get everything we needed: Rainbow Grocery for spices, the farmer’s market for produce, Lucky’s for cheapo basics and Guerros Quality Meats for the GINORMOUS x-cut pork loin.
stuffed pre-Feastivus fridge!
Oh wait- after this was taken, I reconfigured and fit EVEN MORE in!!
So on the agenda for tomorrow is a big, big cleaning session, hopefully a 6 mile run, lots of prep work and COOKING COOKING, COOKING! Then partying 
At some point, probably later tonight, I’m going to write up a little something to say to everyone for before we eat dinner. I want to convey something along the lines of how it was a rough year, but here we are, still smiling and that we got through it. About how happy and thankful I am to have all our friends who are coming, how lucky I feel to have them all enriching our lives and also some schmoopy sentiments about Earl and how amazing he has been over the past year. Then end on a hopeful note about how brighter times are ahead. I’ll probably get weepy and be over the top, but that’s how I am. Probably better that I put a little something together now than attempt it off-the-cuff tomorrow night, lest we end up with a mulled-wine infused, “laughing through tears of joy” Ceej. Oh, who am I kidding, that is probably gonna happen nevertheless 
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I hope you had a good time celebrating! you guys had a tough year but you survived!! that’s awesome! life is like that, a few good years, lots of hard ones, but in the end they are all soooo very good when spent with the ones we love (and of course that includes corgi pups
may you all have a joyous Christmas!
betty