Friday, January 2, 2009

Party Trivia

More party trivia:

  • The DJs played The Pogues' "Fairytale of New York" at midnight. It's a Christmas song for god's sake.
  • Blacksono actually spent some time mingling with the people, before going off to bed. I hear tell that his favorite drink is Captain Morgan.
  • Blackdaughtero would have nothing to do with the party at all, she did not help set up, she did not help take down. She slept through all the helping and then came back home around 4am. I was not amused.
  • Somehow we ended up with four BBQs. We brought a large and small Weber with us from the US. Maybe they had twins - a pair of Chinese Weber clones. They came in very handy and the fires almost kept us toasty and warm.
  • Larry brought 6 bags of charcoal, Barry brought three. Larry and blacksono went out and scavenged wood. We burned it all and still froze.
  • The sweater I was wearing with the Rasta fringes was indeed hand made for me by blackwifeo when she was 15. It finally fits.
  • Ravid, Shiri and Kesem came the furthest, all the way from Kanaf (next to Syria). They surprised me. When I called Ravid the day before the party he claimed they could not make it for all sorts of reasons, not least of which Shiri is two weeks from her due date. It made the whole evening for me.
  • My in-laws babysat Kesem as well as Dana (thewhitegoato) and Yann's kids. It's not often that having the blackgoldsmithos is an advantage, but they do come through in a bind.
  • We had a gatecrasher. He heard the music, came in, poured himself a drink and sat in the Shanti corner and chatted to blackavrilo.
  • For the first time ever, we did not have enough food. The mob ate all the humus, 200 chicken wings, a huge cauldron of soup, a sack of baked un-shelled peanuts, pretzels, bamba, chips, munchies, chocolate biscuits and brownies, crudites with smoky chipotle dip, and all the pitot and bread we bought for the weekend.
  • With all the various forms of smoke, including cigarettes, cigars, wood, charcoal, whacky backy, and the horrid smoke machine we increased Israeli's carbon footprint by more than the little war in Gaza.
  • Tikva and Itzik passed the hat (a baladi container) and everyone donated their 30 NIS. We nearly covered the DJ, so thanks.
  • Dana brought her two week old baby and Kutner brought his little son, neither of them seemed in the least fazed out by the noise.
  • It's now Friday night and we still have not put the lounge back together. Maybe tomorrow.
  • It was a blast, same time next year?

Anyone got anymore to add?

8 comments:

Yuval said...

we had a great time.
Thanks!!!

Jozie said...

yea, I don't get that he played a Xmas song on new years eve. Makes no sense at all. When I asked the dj why, he said, "oh they are all Israeli's, they wont know the difference". hmmmm. Clearly, he had no clue either. 80%. You need to copyright this concept P.

Scarlet said...

I heard through the CoH grapevine that your party was 'awesome'.

Happy New Year :)

blackpetero said...

You could have come Scarlet. You were invited.

Happy New Year to you

peter

Scarlet said...

That would've killed my other-side-of-the-world mystique.

Also, I am deviod of passport. And money. But apart from that, I'd totally have gone.

mart said...

Sorry we missed it. Next year we will be there!!!!

Unknown said...

hi there! i would have loved to be there! i am kind of jalous!
happy new year to all the blacko family!

blackpetero said...

We definitely missed all of you that could not make it. Our parties are usually worth coming to. It takes me at least a year to forget how much work it is before I can agree to another.

The most tiring thing is that usually at social events I'm the one who stands on the side and people watches, but when it's your party, you have to mingle and chat and make small talk. I'm useless at all of those.