Friends for Dinner...*

Same group from a year ago. I managed to cook this year. Dinner was yummy and so were all of the appetizers and desserts too. I need to get some new placemats... My friend went to put them out on the table and my favorite set only had 7 in it. I could have sworn there were 8, but who knows what happened to the eighth one! My second favorite set has 8, but I knew one was dirty... Oh well--there are worse things than non-matching placemats. I also need to buy wine glasses... We don't drink wine (or anything) so I have 2 (the others have gotten broken).

Every time I put out the placemats and cloth napkins, I decide I want to use cloth napkins more, but then I quickly end up back to my paper towel using ways... Maybe I can make it a goal for 2008 to use cloth napkins more often. We'll see.

It's really hard for me to blog about our lovely dinners. We talk and it's fun. It got a little crazy right about dinner time tonight... The folks who came over are my co-workers/colleagues and right before dinner we started discussing the project we're doing right now (Yea, the one with the deadline Jan. 8th--YIKES).

It was a little crazy because I wasn't supposed to be WORKING, I was supposed to be cooking. Fortunately, right at the end, my 3 female friends pulled dinner together and saved the day! It was a crazy ten minutes though, but luckily it did taste fine... the final trip from the kitchen to the table was not as graceful as I would have liked, but all's well that ends well, right? Note to self, don't start a big intellectual discussion right before dinner!

What else... After everyone left K (3.5) started calling my friend P____ yes, the one who made me the bracelet, P____-Pie. It was very sweet.

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We use the ending "pie" as a very affectionate ending around here... We have a N___-a-Pie, a K___-Pie and a T__-Pie.... In fact, we use the pie ending so often it actually was a naming requirement that each name we picked worked with Pie tacked on as an ending (for N, you drop the last syllable and then it works). (The other naming requirement was that you could tack "cat" at the end of the name ... all their names work if you replace PIE with cat. Yea, I'm odd.)
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*Friends for dinner (heh... that's one of the Land Before Time Songs).

Friends for dinner
I'm gonna have friends for dinner
I'm gonna get a couple of those, a couple of these
Things from the bushes and things from the trees
I think they're yucky, but I know they'll please
My friends for dinner

Friends for dinner
He just wants to have friends for dinner
He wants to have three-horn soup
And Littlefoot Stew
You won't think it's funny when he chews on you
That's not a very nice thing to do
To have friends for dinner

He can't eat vegetables, only meat
He'll munch and he'll crunch those little duck feet
If he just eats Spike, wouldn't that be enough?
He would spit out Cera 'cause she's too tough

Friends for dinner
Don't wanna be friends for dinner
We'd rather sink in the mud
Fall out of a tree
Roll like a rock right into the sea
One thing we know we don't wanna be
Is friends for dinner

He'll gnaw your arm and he'll nibble your leg
But we've known Chomper since he was an egg
He'll bite off your beak (That would hurt)
Petrie Pot Pie and Ducky Dessert

Friends for dinner
Don't wanna be friends for dinner
Don't wanna be Spike A-La-Mode
Or Liver of Duck
I wonder if this tastes good?
Yuck!
You know you've run out of luck
When you're friends for dinner

Friends for dinner
Just friends for dinner
Friends for dinner!