Wow, what a day we had yesterday. I LOVE to entertain and have parties. We do a couple a year. I love the cooking, the organizing, the preparing, and the event itself. We had several musicians here from 5 different bands. friends from different factions of our life and their kids. It was so neat to watch them all mix and mingle. The food was amazing. The drinks were tasty tasty. The flies...were quite frankly a pain in the ass. We tried the pennies in a bag of water thing...we were so hopeful when it looked like it was going to work, but alas..no. We are still killing the little suckers today. My floor is littered with the fly carnage, and my OCD hasn't really kicked in to start disinfecting....yet =)
Some especially neat happenings:
-Listening and watching the guys playing music together. It was fun to see them just start a song, and everyone else kick in. I loved it. Musicians playing just for the fun of it. We all love to get paid, but as we all know, the money is for loading the equipment, setting up & tearing down, the music is free. My friend Rob had a saying "we'd put the quarter in a pay toilet and play in there if it was all that was available" It's probably true, hehe. I hope I never have to test the theory.
-Letting the kids sing. Jonathan's daughters sang, Delaney sang... what fun to foster the next generation of entertainers.
-Watching Nathan and Shelby was great. I wish I could read their little minds and know what they were thinking as they stared at each other through the glass.
-like father like son
-My neighbor that I didn't think liked me, and I didn't think I liked her either, coming over for a drink and telling me that she really enjoyed the music. I was so worried she would complain or call the cops. Maybe she's not so bad after all, and maybe I should make the effort to get to know her better.
-My teens and Shaun's teens being engrossed in a game of cards about 15 minutes after meeting.
-Last but not least...my ice dispenser/crusher started working after 3 years. I don't know what kind of voodoo magic happened, but WOOHOO. I have missed my crushed ice and that single event will get me drinking a ton more water.
Let's see what else... ah yes, my little wiener dog followed me everywhere, no matter where I went, there she was. She was great, after she got done barking at everyone. She did leave my side long enough to get Nathan to run so she could chase him. Chase is her favorite, and he seemed to understand it was a game, so he played along, giggling the whole time.
So I am looking at the mess, which isn't bad at all, and all I see is the good time had by all. I usually freak out at least 1 time when getting ready for a party and I clean up the mess immediately. But I took everything in stride yesterday, no stress, no snapping at those trying to help me get ready. It's nearly 2pm the day after, and all we have done is pick up the trash and put the empties in the recycle bin. The counters are still sticky, the dishes are in the sink not even rinsed off, there are still bags of chips out, the pop cases are still sitting on the floor, the chairs and canopy are still outside...and I could care less. I am going to enjoy my day, it will get done when it gets done. This is another indication that the meds are starting to work their medical magic.
So thank you everyone for making our weekend fantastic. Thank you for coming, thank you for the food, thank you for the drinks, thank you for the music, thank you for taking pictures with my camera for me, thank you for being so freaking cool, and thank you so much for being our friends. I was starting to get it in my head that I hate it here in Charlotte, but spending time with all of you lately has made me realize that you have embraced us with open arms, and it is feeling like we are supposed to be here after all.
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