In the middle part of the day Carrie went shopping, first to buy supplies for the evening (though she also bought me some goodies, like a giant hoagee), and second with Linnea to look at baby stuff some more (she was good and refrained from buying stuff during the second trip).
After I finished up my work in the afternoon I helped Carrie clean up the house. She sent me to the store around 6:00 becuase she'd accidentally bought shredded soy cheese instead of real cheese. So I went to Neighborhood Market and got the real stuffis.
Originally we were just gonna have Cat and Heather over, but during the course of the week more and more people ended up being invited, until by the time last night rolled around it was a good-sized, open-invitation party. For the party I made reuben sammitches, which are very good and kind of my specialty sammitch now. I grilled 'em up good and put them in the oven to keep warm. Carrie made tuna melts and a huge pot of potato-leek soup.
People started trickling in around 6:30, and Brandy called me shortly thereafter, so I ducked into the bedroom and talked with her for quite a while. I wish she could have come to the party! I miss her something fierce. So it was good to talk to her.
Eventually I rejoined the party, which consisted of (let's see if'n I can remember everybody):
- Cat & Chris Gouker
- Heather & Chris Fantz
- Christine & Lawrence
- The whole Tarbet Clan:
- Linnea
- JC
- Lena
- Nyki & Casey
- Melissa & Travis
- Kate Molly & Austin(!!!)
And Steph stopped by with her friend Kate a while later, but just for a few minutes (they were just passing through).
A highlight of the night was the news that Kate Molly & Austin are moving back to the Seattle-Tacoma area! Woot! That's really cool. Now if we could just get Gretchen, Erin, and Brandy to move back, and convince Nicole not to move to Oregon...
Also fun was playing the ukulele while Lena played a tiny synthesizer.
All-in-all it was a very fun night.
Not so fun was the huge pile of dishes everyone left in their wake. Boy, I'm kinda sick of my life being dominated by piles of dirty dishes, but it sure does seem to happen often!
