Holiday Hi-jinks
Last night I hosted our Annual PediRehab Holiday Party at the Clubhouse in my building. It was a success last year so I volunteered myself and the room for our little shindig once again. This time I got food catered from Ozone (the Thai place down the street from here) and we had food food for days. Everyone enjoyed it all and I even made Mommy’s Secret Coconut Sticky Rice with the mangoes I found at Costco.
Speaking of Costco…I bought the drinks and the famous 7-pound chocolate cake there and it fell off our cart and onto the floor (opened and upside-down) as we exited the warehouse. I was mortified but luckily the Costco guy was nice enough to quickly clean it up for me and grabbed another one from inside. Phew. That sucker was $17 and I didn’t want to wait in line for another one.
Anyhoo…back to the party. Everyone had a great time and Patty was drinking her fair share that night. In fact, by the end of the night, she had slipped and fallen, couldn’t stop talking about my belly-button, and ended up sleeping in my fort (the couch) last night. She was a hot mess but endless entertainment for me…the only sober one in the place.
We had a pretty good turn-out and I’m pretty sure everyone got home safely. It was certainly a happy holiday party for all of us this year.
I didn’t take as many photos this year but I got some highlights.
Ah…Turkey Day…actually Turkey Weekend is my favorite time of year. This year’s dinner was delicious as usual. Here’s a photo of our turkey-lurkey. It’s golden brown and delicious.
When it was time to carve the bird, Smush and Koa rushed the kitchen to make sure they could catch whatever dropped. Koa learned quickly from his first Thanksgiving when he happened to be under the turkey and ended up with tasty drippings all over this head/nose.
Here’s the full spread. We had turkey, stuffing, creamed corn, cranberry sauce, crescent rolls, sweet potato, mashed potato, and GRAVY. Yum.
I went to work this morning and actually had a good time. Teresa was my partner for the day and it was just like old times. We brought the kids downstairs to make a huge breakfast complete with eggs, sausage, waffles, pancakes, hashbrowns, and freshly-squeezed orange juice. Afterward, we had a three-person dance party down the hallways with our patient, and then finished the day tackling an agitated patient back into his wheelchair. On top of that, I finished all my treatments by noon and was home by 1:30 after it was all said and done. On my way home, I met up with Jes and Koa at the Ferry Building to buy some bread from Acme for our turkey sammiches.
Last night we had a Pre-Thanksgiving Dinner at the Bangs’ new home in Burlingame with smoked turkey and all the fixings. They finally moved out of their Marina apartment to the ‘burbs into a really cute 3-bedroom house. We were also treated by a visit by The Dangs who are in town from Maryland to visit family. It was fun to have everyone together and there were kids everywhere! The great thing about their house is the HUGE backyard. Jack and Andersen had a really fun time running around the big tree and on the grass outside.
Last night we went out to Embarcadero Center once again for Light-up Night. We started at Osha Thai for drinks and dinner while the buildings lit up and the fireworks went off.
Then we headed over to the Hyatt where we admired the lights and hung out at the bar for a few more drinks. Initially I was missing my usual glass of wine but we had so much fun laughing and making fun of each other that I ended up not missing it at all.
The night ended with even more laughs when Matt and Patty decided to put on ice skates at the rink nearby. Patty’s been taking lessons this past year and Matt was just really pumped about the skating. So, they strapped on the skates and took a spin.
It was quite a show watching Matt slip and slide around the rink in NOT the most optimal state.
He took a few crazy spills but this morning he reported back with just a sore palm and a raging headache. I guess this is the beginning of the holiday season and I’m glad that I was able to enjoy it with my friends.
On Wednesday night (11/2), Jes and I celebrated our 9th wedding anniversary. We drove down to Los Gatos, which is about an hour south of SF, for an epic 3.5-hour dinner at Manresa. We opted for the tasting menu and probably had a total of 11 different little morsels.
This one was a really pretty one called “In the Garden”, which is basically a collection of vegetables and edible flowers from their organic garden on site. The food was all very good but I was ovewhelmed by course #8. Kumquat made a little harder for me to eat as much as I usually do so Jes finished off a lot of my dishes.
The night ended with a pair of black sesame/black licorice macarons and candles. Cute.
Before dinner, we was dressed as Captain America and had a cake to match.
Afterward, he opened his gifts and went back and forth between his baseball toy and the bug racing toy.
Seemed like Ryan and Jes were more interested in the latter. Henry and Tweaky raced all night and Jack couldn’t bear to watch his Henry get beat by Jes’ Tweaky 5:1.
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