pre-holiday party

dr. wintermute and i held our first neighborhood gathering (distinct from our halloween party, which was free for all) on friday night. i have to say that first, luck was with me. i left alphacrappa late (rolled out of the parking lot at 11:40, trying to catch a 1:20 flight). mudderbeetch. the only way i can get all the way to hartsfield on time is if there is zero, and i mean zero traffic.

in atlanta.

on a friday.

through the downtown connector.

amazingly, there is no traffic at the perimeter. or the downtown connector. or at the airport.

drop off the rental car and even have time to pick up some lunch before strolling on to the plane.

we have six sets of our neighbors over for drinks and dessert. dr. wintermute baked a 71 layer cake that required five days to prepare (no kidding, she started it on monday night) and it was out of sight. we also had a fantastic whiskey and cranberry lemonade (was supposed to be blood orange juice, but no store carried it) with orange wedge and granulated sugar in a high ball glass. proved so popular that dr. w spent the first 30 minutes serving them up.

we met two sets of neighbors for the first time. we have a nice little range of diversity, which is nice.

nightcap was getting pizza in awesome town.