Christmas parties!

Dan and I had our Christmas parties this weekend. I was on the committee for my Christmas party, so we decided to eat at mine and then go to Dan's for socializing. They ended up both being on Friday, so it was a busy day! I spent the afternoon decorating for our party, while Dan was at home letting Mattie run around, since she would be in her kennel all night. We spend time at my party and had a couple of drinks before we headed over to Dan's party. When we got to Dan's, everyone was still sitting and listening to the commander and had not eaten. We decided to sit at a little round table until she was done talking. At a Guard Christmas party, they always do a table for the soldiers that could not be with them. When the commander was done, another soldier got up to do the fallen soldier table, the little round table in the back!! Fortunately, it was not our table, but another table that we could not see, but what a scary thing!! We both looked at each other like, "oh Shit!!" Another thing that is a tradition at the Guard party is a drink called the grog. It is a mixture of 6 alcohols and a little bit of Hawaiian punch. well, that stuff is just like Kool Aid, and is very smooth. It is so smooth, that I drank a pitcher of it, along with other drinks!! At one point I got the hick ups for about 20 minutes and could not get rid of them , I tried everything, beer, Morgan diet, and grog, but no success!! They did finally go away, with water, imagine that!! We ended the evening with a ride home from friends of ours. I was hungry when we got home, so Dan made me noodles. I ended up pulling the cushion off of the chair in the living room and that is where Mattie and I slept for the remainder of the night!! Needless to say, Saturday was a day of rest, I couldn't lift my head off the pillow!!! Oh well, I told Dan on Saturday, that I will not be drinking any of that grog... until next year!!!