Holiday Dinner

Last night, in the midst of taking care of our little Snaggletoothed Annie, regular day-to-day chores for the house, and prepping for a nice long weekend, we had a little holiday dinner with our friends, whom I will call DBA and TSJ .

Our little group has an odd dynamic. TSJ is Jewish, DBA is Christian (not sure what flavor, precisely), and Ed and I are none of the above. We tried to make our meal well-rounded, and cover a little bit of traditional food for everyone.

We had roast chicken, a nice glazed ham, mashed potatoes, latkes, green beans, stuffing, apple pie, and rugelach. We opened a nice bottle of 1999 Côte de Castillon Bordeaux wine, sat around, and bullshitted for a few hours. It was very pleasant.

They brought SD a very nice scarf, and a large Sponge Bob body pillow thing (the source of many jokes; what do you think about two guys walking around the mall together with a huge Sponge Bob pillow?). Ed got some very cool South Park Cartman slippers (they say "I'm not fat" on the heel of the left slipper, and "I'm big boned!" on the heel of the right...hehehe..). They gave me a really cool foot jet bath massager thing and it came with a parafin hand bath, and then I got a totally kick-ass fondue/s'mores set! Can't wait to try it out.

Last weekend, we gave TSJ his signed copy of Flowers for Algernon, and we gave DBA a DVD player and the three Harry Potter movies that are out.

All in all, a nice start to the holidays!