Holiday Birthday Surprise Extravaganza!

On Saturday night, our gang gathered for our annual holiday gift exchange. This year was different, because we surprised Leighanna and Julien with a joint birthday party! Julien's birthday is ON Christmas Day, so he's never had a real birthday party. It was great, they were totally surprised! So, we had a birthday party and then exchanged holiday gifts.



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Stew Mac Holiday Party!

Tonight was the Stew Mac Holiday Party! I've been going since I was little. When I was little, I went with my parents. Now that I'm an adult, I get to be an honorary employee for the night, the party photographer!

It was at the country club this year. Summer made the cutest snow globes and drink tickets. There was Rock N' Roll Karaoke! It was hilarious to watch. Dan challenged me to an Irish Car Bomb contest and I kicked his butt.

Probably the funniest part of the night was seeing my dad in a full santa suit. Dad Santa!



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Happy Birthday, Joey!

To celebrate Joey's birthday, a bunch of folks gathered at the Purple Chopstix for a potluck. Michelle, Aaron and Craig came from Columbus! And WOODY was there. The food was delicious. Twas a fine party.



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Most Embarassing Gym Moments

This morning in step aerobics, I did something embarrassing. The room was really hot so I went up to the front to tug this fan closer to me, and I GUESS the fan was plugged into the same surge protector as the sound system, which APPARENTLY has a super short cord. Yeah, I unplugged the sound system. The music was blaring, people were steppin' to the beat, then all of a sudden there was a loud electric "BLIP!" then POW! Dead silence. I just kind of stood there for a second and said "Uhhh I just got REAL HOT!! SORRY!" Hahahha. Everyone was staring at me. It was funny though. Everyone laughed. Summer emailed me her rendition of the event this morning:

It's not entirely accurate — I think TRIPPING over the cord would have been one level nerdier on the nerd scale, but she captured my expression perfectly.

She's not gym-embarassment-free though. Earlier this year she marched into class while we were all finishing up our cool down, got out a step, and tried to catch up with us until I was like "What are you doing? There's only five minutes left of class!" Hahahahah, her clock at home was set an hour off and she thought class was just BEGINNING! Hahahahhah. I love the gym.

Happy Birthday, Mer!

Mom and Dad had a little dinner party to celebrate Mer's birthday!

Mom made a big old lasagna. It was DELICIOUS!



Pete and Mer work together to open up a bottle of vino.



Dad models his fancy new pink shirt!



Make a wish!



Pete cuts the cake. I made that cake. It's orange cardamom.



Mmm, cake!



Adam!



Mer has a birthday piece of birthday cake!



Birthday time!



After cake, we read stories out of the 1958 Children's Storybook Encyclopedia. The End!

Irish Car Bomb Birthday Fun!

To celebrate Mer's birthday, a bunch of her friends gathered at the Bike Shop to have Irish Car Bombs! Mer and I did all the preparations. There were about 18 Car Bombs being drunk at once! It was incredible, AND delicious.



Pete snuck a stealth picture of me.



Mer and I got all the shot glasses and pint glasses ready.



Pour those shots!



Mer and I give each other the "Is it time to say 'Go!'?" look.



Yes, it is time.



Ready...



Set...



GO!



Round two!



Chug it!



Afterward, Moss played "Happy Birthday" to Mer on his accordion.



The skate shop and the bike shop.



Me, Gina and Mer! Happy Birthday, Mer!

My Cubicle Xmas Decorations

I decorated my cube for Christmas. I love having the colored lights on. I wish I could have them up all year. Those tiny deer on top of my window are less than an inch tall each!

Congratulations, Rabecca & Julien!

Rabecca and Julien got married this weekend at Stuart's Opera House in Nelsonville. It was neat to have a wedding there! There was a fancy buffet with the best scalloped potatoes I've ever had. Rabecca's uncle made a cheesecake and it too was delicious.

There was lots of beer and punch, and lots of dancing! It was a good time. I made an embroidered applique piece of art for them for their wedding gift. Rabecca and I both love bunnies a LOT.

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Thanksgiving 2005

This year was a small Thanksgiving. It was Mom, Dad, Adam, and Adam's mom. I made TWO kinds of cranberry sauce. The rolls were freaking delicious.

Dad checks out the status of the turkey.



Looks pretty delicious!



Spider is a jerk. She sits up there and meows constantly whenever there is any food at all around.



Look at her straining to see the food!



Oink, oink.



Dad slicing up the bird.



Almost ready!



HOORAY! Thanksgiving time.

NBIA Dance Party

Ever since our new coworker Tom joined us, he's been wanting to have an NBIA Dance Party. He'll hope up on his dance and bust a move above the cubes.

Since this week was a short, three day week, we figured it was the perfect time to have it!

I went out and bought a disco ball. Cheryl loaned Tom her disco light, and the office was instantly a dance party.