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January 05, 2006
New Year's recap
So what was New Year's like? Well, there are some pictures from our party at http://www.desmondsdoghouse.com/nye2006/
Lots of time, money, and work... not to mention some stress... went into things. We had a loose color theme of red & silver, and invited folks to wear said colors. It makes all the pictures a bit eerie, I have to say... everybody matching each other and the decorations.
Steve made chocolate fondue and deviled eggs with bleu cheese. His date, David, helped decorate. Desmond cleaned house and made little deli rolls on whole wheat tortillas. I tried to usurp Martha Stewart, making mini Yorkshire puddings with horseradish creme & beef filet, Caesar salad canapes, and mini lemongrass tea pears. We also had hand crafted whole-foods hummus with parsley-infused olive oil and a selection of elegant (if I do say so myself) crudités, which is just French for freakin' raw veggies.
In preparation, we made trips to East Bay for Target, Ikea, and Berkeley Bowl, and in SF both sides of Cliff's for fabric, balloons, hats, etc, some godforsaken industrial area for a BevMo (next time we're going to the Geary location), the Ferry Building for supplies at Sur La Table, Safeway for various & sundry, Books, Inc on Market St. for canape ideas and a book on fondue, Ross for champagne flutes (fantastic deal), and I spent way too long at Macy's to find red socks, a red shirt, and briefs with a red waistband.
Fallout: Steve says he's never going to Berkeley Bowl again.
Barry says, "He picked one of the two worst Fridays to go. And it wasn't even as busy as it could have been. Anyway, normally at 6 on a Friday it's dead in there."
Steve responds, "I picked nothing."
In any case, things worked out well. Despite any complaints we may voice, obviously I'm proud of what we put into the evening. And I think it was a great success. It's nice to have an "adult" near year's eve.
Decorations were festive, both levels of the apartment had folks milling, folks drank enough to get honest, some close friends from high school made a welcomed appearance, we toasted in the new year, and sooner or later our guests found themselves leaving or crashing, and I found myself in bed.
Lots of great things during the evening. It was so nice to see folks, to reconnect with those I hadn't seen in some time, and to enjoy the people in my life. "The moon was in void" according to one of them, so we can't have any expectations following the evening's goings-on, but I wish I could. I would like to expect more of the same and better.
One of my New Year's intentions is to focus my social/relationship energy into relationships in which depth and intimacy can be very present. So I'll be looking to spend less time & energy in ways that don't create that, and hopefully find more ways to spend it, and people to spend it with, that do.
Posted by Josh A. at January 5, 2006 12:27 AM
Comments
You're so fake.
Posted by: ? at January 5, 2006 11:50 PM
Well, who isn't? On some level anyway.
You get to be taken seriously saying things like that when you say them without hiding behind a fake name and no email address ;-)
Posted by: Josh A. at January 5, 2006 11:54 PM
Hey now!
Josh, you're so non-fake that when I read Mr. Question Mark's comment I felt the need to defend your honor, or veracity, or sincerity, or whatnot, hence this comment of little content. Let me know if you'd like me to challenge anyone to a duel or anything.
Posted by: Ari Moore at January 6, 2006 06:11 AM
Aww, thanks. We only know like two people in San Jose, and I don't really think it was either of them.
So, if it wasn't obvious enough from the comment they made, it's gotta be someone who doesn't know me.
A duel could be fun though. S/he could be the masked villain, the dreaded Question Mark.
Posted by: Josh A. at January 6, 2006 10:51 AM