In the morning I created a couple of Early Christmas presents that I think Brandy and Travis will really like. Then I got to work on my Christmas Party present. Last year I'd given some etched glasses, but Carrie wanted to give some of my etched glasses this year. So what she did is take two Skull & Crossbones Martini Glasses and fill them each with some tiny bottles o' hooch. It was a pretty cute present!
Since she was going the etched glassware route, I decided to go down another one of my creative avenues: I did a painting. And it turned out to be a really, really awexome painting:
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He's so frikkin' cute! Also in the afternoon I went out and got a gift certificate and tried to find a specific kind of beer but failed in that endeavor.
When Carrie got home from work, we got ready, wrapped everything up, and headed over to Christine's for what is known as the "pre-funk." Already there were Lawrence, Jen, and her hubby Pete! We didn't think that he was going to be able to make it, but they decided last minute to stick their baby daughter Lila with a relative so they could both come. Hooray!
Christine made her very tasty version of gin fizzy and we all hung out for a while. Eventually Brandy showed up, back from New York! Although it had apparently been quite the adventure, because she'd tried to fly into SeaTac when they were still having all those problems with the power over here Friday night. Instead of getting a direct flight from New York, she had to make and unscheduled layover in San Francisco before finally getting to the airport at something like 1:30 in the AM. Oh, and her luggage came separately (she only just got it yesterday). She brought her friend Chelsea as her date to the party.
So then we all headed over to the private upstairs room at Primo and had a great time with great food and great people. In the gift exchange, Steph ended up with the etched martini glasses, and Lawrence ended up with my MountainBot painting! Carrie & I ended up with an absolutely gorgeous painting from Gina, which was very surprising in that I'd never known she could paint! It's really pretty:
Actually a lot of people brought original artwork as gifts, which is really cool. I brought etched glasses and a painting; Gina brought a painting; Heather brought a painting; Chris Fantz brought some photographs; Brandy brought a photograph of the Statue o' Liberty. I think that was it.
After the party dissolved we all headed back to Christine's (plus Melissa, Steph, and their sigfigs, and with Carly subbing for Brandy, who actually had to go home and write a freakin' final for school that night) where Steph made some hot buttered rums that were very, very tasty.
Sometime after midnight Carrie and I gathered our things and walked the six-or-so blocks back to our house, where I made some gnocci that we ate in bed.
