That day, I got up earlier than I would have to go get ready to attend a funeral. My previous boss, Melanie, her dad died the week before and Laura called to ask if I was going. I hadn't planned on it but I told her I would go if she was going to go. I went to the wrong cemetery so I was just getting there after it had started at 10. I listened to the speakers, Taps played by the State Patrol and then we talked to Melanie after the service. We met her daughters, her mother and her sister. Then we headed over to Pelegrinos for cake and refreshments. I spent most of my time talking to Laura and Joe. We stayed until about noon and I had some cleaning to do. Melanie thanked us for coming and that she really appreciated it.
I headed home and had some lunch.
Between the many college football games, we cleaned everything, put boxes and stuff away, hung pictures, did the dishes, laundry, swept and mopped the floor, made the bed, vacuumed the carpets, cleaned my cat's food and potty areas, cleaned the bathrooms and even had some time to go to the dollar store to decorate the tables I borrowed from Susanne.
Earlier that week I got some pizza dough for the gluten eaters. Everyone else pretty much had all of the toppings, sauces and desserts together. I had planned on playing bingo so I borrowed the bingo cards, the cage and balls from grandma. I had everyone bring some small prizes for the winners. We had quite the array of prizes ranging from a bobble head Jesus to scented candles to a toothbrush/toothpaste combo bag. It amazed me which prizes went first and which ones didn't get picked at all.
Everyone started to arrive pretty punctually at 7 p.m. I gave everyone the tour of the place and to my amazement my cat let people touch him. It was weird. He usually didn't like a bunch of people in his house and would go and hide. We moved the futon into the spare bedroom so he really didn't have a place to hide except our bedroom on my side of the bed.
I got the oven prepped and we all started making our pizzas before we started in on games. I was really sad that mine and Ben's pizzas were last and everyone pretty much ate all of the pepperoni. I got two pieces. Oh well, at least there was enough cheese and olives.
Everyone was pretty much done with their pizzas by the time Ben and I ate ours. We started bingo shortly after and I decided to be the number caller as well as run a page of six bingo cards. Apparently Justin was the lucky one this time, he basically won every time we played a game. We did a normal bingo, a postage stamp, around the free space, large picture frame and finally blackout. Everyone at least won a prize or two. I ended up with a scented candle. Megan, Matt, Mason and Miles had to head home. We thanked them for coming out. They even had time for a picture.
I cleaned up the bingo stuff and Nicole wanted to teach us a new game she acquired recently. It was called Red Flags. Basically we got three sets of cards, two good attributes for someone to date and the person to our left would add the "but". So my set of cards could say, "my perfect date would be someone who has season tickets to my favorite football team, loves pets but doesn't communicate." Depending on how many players were playing you would contribute your neighbors card to the round. So there would be a no communicate card, a doesn't shower card, every time they got drunk they cheated card, says like every other word card, has Nazi memorabilia card, so on and so forth. Some of the red flag cards were minor and some of them were pretty bad. I chose which card I could live with and that person's card I chose got a point. Everyone went twice.
We cleaned that game up and Nicole also had Pit. I love Pit!! Me and my family used to play it all the time. We sat on the rug and I taught Pit to everyone. We started out without the bull and the bear and added them to the game as everyone understood. We kept forgetting that if you are the two people after the dealer you would have 10 cards in your hand. You would have to pay closer attention to your cards to corner the market. The game got wild and for some reason Celeste always ended up with the bull or the bear or both. We laughed a lot.
It was just after midnight and everyone decided to head home. Del never made it over after the wedding he went to earlier. I guess we would see him next time when we carve pumpkins over at Celeste's house. I think we decided on a Sunday afternoon while we watched the Seahawks.
Ben and I stayed up a little bit longer and cleaned up a little bit. I knew we wouldn't want to do it the next morning when we got up. Overall, I believe our first time hosting went well. We will probably host some more once Christmas is over.
Next Adventure: Nick and Nickey's Wedding
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