Wednesday night is my office Christmas party. Nothing spectacular, just going out to dinner at a nice restaurant, which of course is fun and all that but doesn't involve any skits or barbershop quartets. I looked up the place - Little Gardens - online this morning, and it appears to be quite the pacifist place - the website described in great detail the 'anti-bellum' plantation-style estate, which was perfect for weddings. Hmm. Well, it looks elegant, anyway, and should afford a good feast. We don't know yet when Michael's office Christmas party is because it still hasn't been decided. Last year I think we found out the week before.
Christmas shopping and decorating continue apace. We have made great strides, but my attention span has waned considerably, and we still don't have the tree up. We decorated up at the office on Friday, and that put me into a jolly holiday mood, all enthused and inspired to do up our house. Somehow the weekend slipped away without much progress on that front, though. On the plus side, the house is clean and we're supplied with a fresh supply of edibles for the week. Priorities, priorities!
Mitch came up to Michael at Sunday school yesterday and said, 'Hey, if you need any help with putting up your Christmas lights...don't call me!' Apparently they had a real decorating push this weekend, to mixed success. Mitch described renting an extension ladder to string the lights along the peak of the eaves, and recounted how he had finally attached the last of them, climbed down the ladder, and pulled it away from the house...only to have the ladder catch on the lights and rip them off. The lights came crashing into the driveway and half the bulbs shattered. Our Sunday school leader chimed in that the exact thing had happened to him, too! So, Christmas light enthusiasts, take warning!
Over the weekend we went out to the cheap theatre to see Captain Sky and the World of Tomorrow. It was a very cleverly done 40s-era comic book adventure. I loved the classic 40s hats and styles and the black-and-white gritty cinemactography: it was a unique juxtaposition of futuristic technology and retro culture. There was an occasional big, big D, but overall it was very clean.
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