So, in the past month, there have been two parties at my house.

Turkeypoluza II was a huge success. Several things were proven: 1) both of my ovens can heat up to 500 degrees at the same time (proven by external thermometer). 2) Cooking 45 pounds of meat at the same time is pretty awesome (two hams, and two birds, all done the Alton Brown way). 3) My house can seat 35 people for a feast at one time. *boggle* This is pretty cool. This event was the Tuesday before Thanksgiving.

Christmas Caroling was also inverted this time to become a party at my house (which was tonight). There were probably 30 or so people total at the house, and we broke up into subgroups to sing different carols (lyrics and whatnot were provided). This is a huge departure from the normal way that my mens group does caroling, but I thought it was fun. It needed a little more polish on the planning/execution portions, and a little more good will on the part of a few members would have helped, but all in all, it was a good time.

And even better, I might have been able to hook someone up with a job, just by introducing them to someone in the right context. Now if I could just do the same for my girlfriend…

I’m not good at making mix CD’s.  I’m a member of a ‘Christmas Music Mix CD’ circle.  You make a mix CD, and send it to the other 3 people in your group.  Theoretically, they do the same.

I just don’t have the music mojo needed to do it well.  I have some great songs, and I really want to include them, but I have no clue how to best bridge them together into something that almost, sorta, half way flows together.

Let’s see.  In other news, estate sales are fun, interesting, and dangerous.

I was driving Sandra to her upper GI appointment, and I saw an ‘estate sale’ sign.  We talked about it some, and if she felt up to it afterwards, we decided to stop by.  The owner of the house obviously had to have the best of the best in almost everything.  But they had passed away.  And now all their stuff was for sale.  Most of the art was odd to my taste, but there was a BEAUTIFUL oil painting of a cafe in Venice with 3 animals sitting in the piazza in front of it, with a canal off in the right side background.  Now I just need to get the sucker appraised to see if I got ripped off (and to see how much of a rider I need to put on my home owners insurance).  I don’t think I got ripped off, and I really enjoy the piece, so I’m not unhappy to have it mounted on the wall.