Last night, I asked Will: You know what makes me sad?
What?
Last year, when I had my Halloween Party, you didn't come.
You didn't invite me!
So? I still can't believe you weren't there.
I wasn't at your birthday party, either.
Yeah, what gives?
We had met online but not in person - that wouldn't come for another month - but he promises me that during this time last year, he was proclaiming his love for me to whatever IMfriends would listen. I had considered inviting him to the dinner party I threw right after Halloween, but I thought it might be weird inviting him to a dinner with six people he'd never met.
Thankfully, we met a few days later and I wised up and invited him to my next party. And the next one. And the one after that was our engagement/housewarming party. Which tells you two things:
a) I move fast.
b) I like to throw a lot of parties.
Party season is once again upon us, starting with my birthday and rolling into Halloween-Thanksgiving-Christmas-New Year's. Then there's my mother's Russian Christmas party, and then Valentine's Day, and then a couple of family birthdays, and then my friend R's wedding in Hawaii that we're saving our pennies for, as it coincides with our one-year anniversary and we're trying to finagle it as a Belated Honeymoon (I know, crazy. Can it be done? I'll tell you when May rolls around.) The fact is that I've got the party-throwing fever. It's been suggested to me that I turn it into my own little business, part-catering part-event planning, but while the party-throwing fever is amazing in theory, in practice it starts with that little red flush of excitement and ends with me being a shivering, shaking, achy sweaty delusional mess. And yet every time it's over...I want to do it again.
Parties are also pricey, so minus Thanksgiving (SlackParents are coming to town!) I am keeping my visions of bacon-wrapped dates and honeyed goat cheese with figs and prosciutto-wrapped smoked mozzarella and antipasto plates to a minimum. But a girl can dream...
*To those of you born in the 80s/90s: Before Eddie Murphy liked did Disney Remakes and ran a Good Samaritan Cab Service for Tranny Hookers he was funny and also cut an album.
