2nd House Warming

Monday was the 2nd house warming party for my house. Or, new roommate open house. Or, really good excuse to clean the house and make Josh help (usually the other way around). Anyway. With two new roommates and a host of new people at church who have not seen the place yet, it was time to host something. A tad bigger than I prefer, but there aren't enough free nights left in the year to chill with these folks any other way. Between trying to keep track of food and guests, and being a bit too critical, I was not very hospitable. But it seems people were able to enjoy the time regardless. Or else they're lying to me! :-)

Right, so I mentioned that it was a new roomie open house, but half of my new roomies weren't around. BenB (need a better picture) got sent on a work trip kinda sorta last minute. The show went on anyway.

The place cleaned up nicely. I tidied up the counters and sink in the kitchen and couldn't figure out why it still looked so cluttered. Turned out to be that massive white thing, the fridge, covered in magnets and papers so old and disorganized that you have no desire to read or look at what's on it. We could still use more magnets, but it has been thinned out quite a bit. I promise that I never had anything to do with any of the CRU car magnet shenanigans going on. Everyone in my house this last year has gotten extras from supporting CRU and then being at church when CRU handed them out.

Josh still cringes at our upstairs bathroom though. Kinda gotta get on that.

We rounded up lots of desserts. Thank you folks!! The original plan was to ask a few key people to bring desserts after getting RSVPs. But most people volunteered before I could ask. I did contribute with some cookies though. Yes that's right, I baked!! Mrs. Dreyman still squints her eyes at me in the church hallways because I have yet to give her this recipe. Posting it on here will just sting her more! :-)

INGREDIENTS

* 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
* 1/2 cup butter, softened
* 1/2 cup white sugar
* 1 egg
* 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
* 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
* 1/4 teaspoon salt
* 1 cup mini semi-sweet chocolate chips
* 1 cup uncooked old-fashioned rolled oats
* 1 package almond brickle chips
* 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

DIRECTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Mix sugars, margarine and until light and fluffy. Mix in egg and vanilla. Stir in flour, baking soda, and salt. Stir in chocolate chips, brickle chips and oats.
3. Drop dough by rounded teaspoons onto greased cookie sheet. Bake 9-10 minutes until lightly brown.


At some point after 8:30, the partay picked up a little bit with the arrival of some more crazy ladies. Becks, Joanne, Allissa and the other other Sarah.

The Peoria Dance Club (PDC) tested out the dinning room floor and approved. I may be hosting the thing I hate so much sometime in the future...dancing. The only time I tried dancing in life was when I liked a girl who loved it. As sweet as she is, it made for a really big plus-side to her ending up not interested.

Soooo, we got this wall in the house. It's days are numbered. It wasn't there to start with, and it won't be there anymore eventually, on purpose. But I haven't gotten around to demolishing it in the last two years, so it has become a great way to vent frustration, or freak people out. When a couple of tough gals tried to test their strength on it, I decided it was a great time to see if I could punch through. It's been a mystery to me for too long.


No prob right? However, as new onlookers came about and wanted to see what caused the commotion, I did not pick my angles very well for demo #2, and we did not get a second hole.


As I just told Sarah K. via email, who denies being involved in the injury, "When girls are around, and a guy does something stupid, it was caused by the girls...just trust me" Her immediate reply was "So if us girls do something stupid…we can blame the guys". Fair 'nuf. Dad is SOOO gonna tease me about this.