Celllll -a-brate good times... come on! Thank you Kool and the
Gang, btw, for that happy little tune. Which actually is a wonderful way to
begin a fun party with friends and family. Which is exactly what I did a few weeks ago in
honor of my kid.
As you may know, I am over the moon that my son left Miami last
August and decided to live in a place where life is soooo much better for one's
soul, ease of life and yes, even your pocketbook. I should know. I've been
living here for 15 years now and believe you me, I've never looked back. But to
have imagined my kid too, would one day be here, puts me way over the moon. The
delight I have in knowing I can see him any damn time I want is totally
fantastic. Not to mention my no longer having to hop an airplane, go through
security and visit the warmest city on the planet to visit him.
What is even more fantastic however is: a couple of months ago,he has passed his NC
Board Exam for Physician Assistant and yippee, yippee. He's now about to begin working for a major sports medicine/orthopedic surgical office about 20 minutes
away from my house! OMG. How lucky could I possibly be for such a happy turn of
events! Who knew he'd kiss my much hated Florida goodbye and wind up in my
beloved Smokey Mountains? Talk about making a great decision! Besides... his
having hospital privileges and the ability to write scripts is totally excellent
music to my ears.
In the meantime... we recently decided to celebrate this new job
with fun and feast by hosting a Sunday brunch. My alltime favorite brunch, btw. It's almost
like: which am I more excited about? My son's new position or enjoying an
exceptional buffet of scrumptious food. There was 22 of us in total and I do
have to say we all had a fabulous time. We had a private room which was pretty
interesting since the night before, when my kid and I went to set up the place
cards and party favors, we could see right off the bat the table arrangement had
to be switched up lickety split. The original arrangement was not working for us
at all, but soon enough we had it straightened out and bingo. We got to work on
placing the favors at each table setting.
Speaking of which I so loved what I did for the favors. It was
nothing fancy at all and so something a second grader could easily do but what
the hell...it gave one a clue as to what the celebration was kinda all about.
Uh... in case a guest was an idiot and didn't know already. Besides, I was way
too lazy to go all out do some remarkable tablescaping but I totally think that's
just a result of my old age. Further... the country club had flowers, etc. to
spruce up the table so things looked perfectly festive enough. That being
said...
First of all, I bought these baby little plastic cup holders
with covers which I filled with orange Reece's Pieces and printed out a great
small card to attach to each one saying: Take two and call me in the morning. I
even put an Rx logo on it and frankly, if I say so myself... it put us all in
the mood to have fun.
The next thing I did was take plastic syringe shooters
like the ones up above in the picture, and instead of filling it with liquor,
like you're supposed to, I filled them with red licorice. Boom. You got the
feeling of blood being drawn. I also made place cards and all of it was totally neat. Wait. Stop the clock. Who
needs to tell you about it? I actually have a picture of all this! Duh. What an
idiot I am. Here... check this out to get an idea.
In the meantime.... I have to say that all of us had quite a
lovely time. My kid gave a short little speech thanking some people who were of
significance, I gave a short little speech and all in all, we basically honored
the happy P.A. to our excellent little city. What could be bad, right?
Besides... I love enjoying happy times with happy people that I care about. Even
more, I'm happy my kid got an excellent position with an surprisingly excellent
salary! Who says money can't buy happiness??
I'm guessing btw, that my next celebration will be for ME... my birthday!
I totally love my birthday and I do know that I want to keep it sweet and
simple. Which should be easy given a friend of mine said they want to do a
dinner party for me to which I naturally said: COUNT ME IN! Talk about no muss
no fuss.
Yippee. May is here!!
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