I went to a sweater party yesterday. You know, one of those parties where you wear the tackiest Christmas sweater you can find. So, first of all the sweaters were AWESOME. Candice (roommate) had a big bulky black sweater that she got from her mom's closet of all places. It had Christmas Trees and Santa's all across the front and she took some LED lights and poked them through the sweater so the trees lit up (had a battery pack and all). Very cool! I had these red and green earrings with santa's on them, a light up necklace, and a horrendous green sweater vest on. Nate's (other roommate) was a blue vest with an entire Nativity Scene embroidered on it. So, first, picture all of us dressed up.
Classic.
We decided to take "family" photo's in front of the Christmas tree before we left. So Candice cracks a beer, Nate's got Emma (Candice's dog) in his lap with this elf hat on that she HATES and keeps trying to scratch off her head, and I've got Bella (yes, my cat) in my lap who hates being held and keeps trying to claw her way out of my arms. So she sets the timer to take 10 photo's at a time, and they turned out AWESOME!
Then we went to the party.
So, when we get there Keal (the party thrower and Nate's old college roommate) was finishing hanging the Christmas lights outside. So he rounds everyone up and we're all standing outside and, no kidding, we do the drumroll and he plugs in the lights like the Griswolds. It was awesome. It didn't work at first and he starts kicking stuff and then
checks a plus and they finally come on and someone starts singing "Jooooy to the woooorld." Ahhaa!!
So he's cooking as everyone's mingling and what not. He has a ham, a turkey, and everyone else brought sides. He has the ham and turkey in the oven and decides they're done, so he takes them out to put in the potatoes. Well, the turkey's not done. He tries to put it back into the oven but it's in one of those flimsy, disposable silver trays and the juice goes everywhere. In a gas stove. Flames were licking the CEILING they were so tall! But he was so calm and collected, he just grabbed the turkey, slowly put it on the top of the stove, and shut the door so the fire would go out. FIRE! 3 foot flames! Took all the hair off his arms and set off every smoke alarm in the house. It smelled AWFUL! Funny after it was done, but awful.
So, that happened. Then he put the sides in to start getting warm. He has the potatoes and the green bean casserole in there, heating at 350, for about an hour. Turns out what he THOUGHT was the green bean casserole was actually this girls frosted red velvet cake she brought over. Oh man. So all the frosting melted off and the bottom burnt so badly we couldn't get it out.
And now it's time to eat and the green bean casserole is in a metal tin, and cold. And the cake is edible, but burnt. And he has no hair on his arms. And the house is still filled with smoke and now it's freezing because all the doors and windows are open.
It turned out great. 16 people all sitting at a long table passing rolls and scooping potatoes and what not. Candice starts quoting the Christmas Vacation movie "They want you to say GRAAAAACE!" "I pledge allegiance, to the flag..."
It was classic.
Classic.
We decided to take "family" photo's in front of the Christmas tree before we left. So Candice cracks a beer, Nate's got Emma (Candice's dog) in his lap with this elf hat on that she HATES and keeps trying to scratch off her head, and I've got Bella (yes, my cat) in my lap who hates being held and keeps trying to claw her way out of my arms. So she sets the timer to take 10 photo's at a time, and they turned out AWESOME!
Then we went to the party.
So, when we get there Keal (the party thrower and Nate's old college roommate) was finishing hanging the Christmas lights outside. So he rounds everyone up and we're all standing outside and, no kidding, we do the drumroll and he plugs in the lights like the Griswolds. It was awesome. It didn't work at first and he starts kicking stuff and then
checks a plus and they finally come on and someone starts singing "Jooooy to the woooorld." Ahhaa!!
So he's cooking as everyone's mingling and what not. He has a ham, a turkey, and everyone else brought sides. He has the ham and turkey in the oven and decides they're done, so he takes them out to put in the potatoes. Well, the turkey's not done. He tries to put it back into the oven but it's in one of those flimsy, disposable silver trays and the juice goes everywhere. In a gas stove. Flames were licking the CEILING they were so tall! But he was so calm and collected, he just grabbed the turkey, slowly put it on the top of the stove, and shut the door so the fire would go out. FIRE! 3 foot flames! Took all the hair off his arms and set off every smoke alarm in the house. It smelled AWFUL! Funny after it was done, but awful.
So, that happened. Then he put the sides in to start getting warm. He has the potatoes and the green bean casserole in there, heating at 350, for about an hour. Turns out what he THOUGHT was the green bean casserole was actually this girls frosted red velvet cake she brought over. Oh man. So all the frosting melted off and the bottom burnt so badly we couldn't get it out.
And now it's time to eat and the green bean casserole is in a metal tin, and cold. And the cake is edible, but burnt. And he has no hair on his arms. And the house is still filled with smoke and now it's freezing because all the doors and windows are open.
It turned out great. 16 people all sitting at a long table passing rolls and scooping potatoes and what not. Candice starts quoting the Christmas Vacation movie "They want you to say GRAAAAACE!" "I pledge allegiance, to the flag..."
It was classic.
