well, i have taken my first road trip of the fall... not so bad for an aging old maid such as myself...
so i drove up to southbend indiana with my sister and two brothers to see the notre dame game... they have some great student traditions by the way. i know nothing about the school but just watching their student section at the game just got me all riled up for the fighting irish... they have a great campus and a real sense of unity it seems... of course, they don't have any frats or sororities, so maybe that is why...
so i'm beginning to hit the stressed holiday season... for most people it's like, okay, where am i going to spend my holidays? who in my family is important enough? well, i know i have to work, so whatever is local is my only option, so that isn't quite the problem. it's our annual christmas party. we always have it in our apartment. but ya know, even though our apartment is huge this year, it isn't really laid out for a party type atmosphere... so what do we do?
have it somewhere else?
that would be completely lame... totally against the tradition and the glory that is the peters christmas extravaganza... so it stands to reason that we need to figure out exactly who is coming so we can be sure to have enough room without getting any fire hazard warnings... so then it comes down to who to invite and who not to invite...
of course we are for inviting everyone we know we can get in touch with that has ever showed up... but that could just be too much... over the past year we've really missed a lot of friends that we haven't seen since last christmas party and then their are some people that we wish we could have forgotten a lot sooner.. but those types of things doesn't make it any easier to form the guest list... at what point can you decide that people are far enough out of your social radar to leave them off of something that has become quite a tradition... it's just a hard kind of question to answer...
at the risk of offending some people, we will have to be very careful about who we invite though... luckily though, our social radar is very forgiving and has a wide reaching radar of sorts... i hope to get everyone here... there are just so many people i really miss having around...
anyways, as the upcoming holidays finally arrive, i'm sure i'll become much more of a mess over trivial things such as who's house to eat thanksgiving at... my parents, my boyfriend's, or just at whoever's house sounds good... all hard questions, but not too life deciding :o)
