Who showed up? Gary, of course, and his brother Jim and his girlfriend came in around 2:00 am, Audi, Duane, Arty, Kathleen, Glen and Kathy, Joe, Scotty, Charlie, Ed, David R, Jennifer, Eric, David H, Joe Turtle, Riker Bear, Peaches, Max (the dog) and me. Hopefully I didn’t miss anyone, but I’m sure I can come up with an excuse if I did. LOL
the highlight for most people was the home made beer that Gary made. We tried to come up with a good brand for his new beer, and at first Garyweiser was the top choice. However, the later it got, and the more people drank, it became clear……. Spare Tire. The perfect name for this so interesting brew. Please note that I did not actually try the beer, since I’m not a beer girl, but I drank most of two bottles of champagne myself. The guys tell me it was great. Kinda sad seeing all those dead soldiers on the kitchen counter at the end of the night.
We brought out the wii, and started the games. Bowling was the hot ticket, and baseball was on deck (pun intended). Scotty took up golf, and then it was back to bowling. We had started off with Wrestling, but the game didn’t work. What a bummer. I was looking forward to taking some pictures of the guys slamming each other with wrestling moves.
When it got to be close to midnight, we handed out parchment paper. Each person was supposed to write down on the paper what their worries were for the coming year. The next step was for us to go out and burn the scrolls. This was based on a Peldar Fest tradition from Bajor. Anyway, it was SO cold that we looked for options to starting a fire outside. The fire place was an option, but we decided not to start a fire in the fireplace just for this, so we did the next best thing……. Gary drug out his paper shredder. It worked quite well. We loved that little ceremony. I thought of another paragraph after my first sheet went in, so scribbled another quick one to add to my troubles, and rushed it into the shredder. Then, we realized we only had like a minute until midnight, so everyone grabbed something to drink for the countdown. It was close, but we were up to the challenge.
As soon as the kissing and hugging stopped, we set off like 160 party poppers all over the living room. We kept laughing about the smoke alarms going off, but they never did. I was kinda bummed by that. I thought it would be funny to watch everyone taking dish towels and wave them at the smoke detector until it went off. Oh well, there’s always next year. Each of the party poppers had confetti in it, and there was confetti all over. I must confess, I found confetti in places I didn’t know it could get.
A bunch of nice people helped to clean up, and then it was back to baseball and eating/drinking. People started leaving a little after midnight, one or two at a time, and Kathleen took a little nap on the couch. It was all because of Gary-he served some Lemon shot thing that was almost 100% everclear, and it did horrible things to some of us. If only I could remember (just kidding).
Eventually, there was only a few of us left, and we helped to clean up and then headed out. I think we got home around 3:30 am or so. Thanks to Arty for driving us to the party!!!
Welcome 2008! It’s going to be a great year.
