First Christmas Party of the Year

Last night Ed and I went to his cousin's Christmas party. I met these cousins for the first time at his brother's wedding. We ended up sitting with them at the rehearsal dinner. They have been married for a year and a half, and they have two Schnauzers, Lou and Heidi. It's so funny when dogs have regular names. I guess Jemma is a regular name, but I don't think of her as a human. Well, she does talk, and has an awesome personality, but she's still a dog, ya know?

So this party we went to had tons of married people, and about 6 kids. 6 kids! The kids that were able to walk and talk on their own were upstairs watching DVD's and the adults were downstairs eating and drinking. We took two 6 packs of Magic Hat, and disappointingly, forgot to take the second 6 pack home. I'm never sure if people will like it, so I hate to waste it, but I guess it was a gift to them.

Colleen, the hostess, is a teacher, so several of her teacher friends were there. One lady was older, and started to feed Lou a peanut, and Colleen had to scold the lady because the dogs' stomachs are really sensitive, and Colleen didn't want them to get sick. Luckily, Lou didn't even want to eat the peanut. If Jemma was in his place, that peanut wouldn't have even fit in Jemma's hollow tooth, it would have been gone so fast! hee hee. Then, this lady kept talking about smoking her little cigars and who wanted to join her. It was this big production. After a while, all the guys and this lady ended up outside smoking these little cigars. It was kind of strange.

Another woman had two kids. One was 6 months old, and the other one was a toddler. I'm not sure how old he was, but he was so hyper. He was screaming with excitement and running around. At one point, he was running past me, and Heidi jumped on him. It made me a little nervous because you never know how dogs will react around kids. I pulled the dog off the boy, and then he ran to his parents. I'm not sure if he was scared or didn't know what was going on. Heidi didn't DO anything, she just jumped on him. The funny part was that they were the same height when Heidi jumped up. :)

Ed and I sat in the corner most of the party. He didn't know anyone, and I certainly didn't know anyone, so we just sat there and talked. Everyone kept offering to carry the 6 month old baby, and I felt really uncomfortable. I was just watching these married/engaged/baby people and I didn't feel that I fit in at all. I didn't even think I wanted to fit in, and that makes me a little nervous. For the three hours we were there, I was thinking 'what does all this stuff really mean? Is this what I want? Do I want to have parties like this?' I think the answer is no. The food was good, and Jamie and Colleen have a nice house. I'm just so confused about everything it's not even funny.

Oh, and earlier in the day, Ed and I stopped by Jared, the jewelery store. I had to get my ring inspected (it's a 6 month ritual), and of course, I love to look at the diamonds and try them on. The saleslady was asking if we were ready to buy a ring or whatever, and we both agreed, that no, we were just looking. I felt bad after we left the store that I was even over there looking, but I LOVE looking and trying rings on. They're all so pretty and nice. I just think that I'm misrepresenting myself when I say 'oh, I like this one. blah blah.' I guess I'm scaring myself and mad at myself. I can go to Jared anytime on my own, yet I only go when I'm with Ed getting my ring inspected. There was one ring I looked at that had like 6 diamonds in a circle, and one in the middle and it looked like a daisy. Ed asked if that was an engagement ring. It wasn't specifically in the "engagement" area, but I told him that it doesn't matter whether a ring is really an "engagement" ring. I said you can buy any ring and propose. The salesgirl wasn't too happy with that answer. I think that ring was like 600 dollars, but it sure was cute. I also saw some awesome earrings for 500. They were round, small, dangly, pave earrings. So cute. I better save my pennies. Ed said 'you never show your ears' and all I said was 'so, I like to have stuff just to have. No one needs to see what I own.' hee hee. I'm the worst!