hummingwolf | Monday, December 18th, 2006

Or at least, happy holiday party weekend! I had a good weekend this time, with many thanks to

tlttlotd and various guests. Saturday night was their holiday cookie party, you see, which meant both good company and tasty high-calorie treats (as well as some tasty alcohol people brought in later). Lyssa, as usual, made sure that nobody left her place hungry, even though she did very, very little cooking herself aside from one much-appreciated scrambled egg. There weren't very many people there when the Doctor picked me up at the Metro station, but their hoome and their cookie table filled up rapidly enough. Early in the evening, we sat around watching Gladiator followed by one of the Lord of the Rings movies--or, as someone put it, "A depressing movie followed by pretty elves, who are also in a depressing movie."

Plenty of good conversation during the night, much of it quite geeky. There was also an extremely impressive bit of belly dancing by Lauren, a newly-professional dancer who's also becoming good with a sword. It was a very good time overall, though the relative lack of protein & excess of sugar got to poor

aekiy who ended up needing to rehydrate after getting a bit shaky & ill. One of the Ravens there was talking about different high-protein foods he could be fed to make him feel better, and as she listed them, it occurred to me that my body might be much happier if I had some protein too. So even though

aekiy wasn't up to eating any food of any kind at that point,

lyssabard was kind enough to fix me that egg mentioned earlier, which helped relieve more shakiness than I'd realized I'd had.

Several of us spent the night there after the party, so I went to sleep to the sounds of

mmsword tapping away at his keyboard. We all woke up reasonably late Sunday morning and discussed where we wanted to go for breakfast. The original plan had been for a Mexican restaurant, but except for

jarandhel and

kyoudai02, who opted to leave at that point, we all ended up going to an Indian buffet. Much tasty food! The chicken dishes in particular really helped perk me up. It's a good thing everyone who was there knows I'm mostly harmless, because statements of "Protein is our friend!" followed by "Our friends are made of protein!" with a manic gleam in my eye might have frightened lesser souls.

( More Christmas spirit )