C’mon in, guys. This is a no frills holiday party. I was super busy today. Had to go to not one but TWO Ikeas today. You wanna know why people in NJ are 49th on the happiness scale? It’s because any time they want to buy anything, they have to compete with 42,000 other people in NJ who want the same damn thing. My new living room rug is back ordered until February at Crate and Barrel. And the Newark Ikea had the basement sofa I wanted (I had to wait a whole year after the reno to buy it) but the covers for the damn thing were in Paramus. Then, I had to drive back to Central NJ, where we are in the middle of everything but close to nothing, through Paramus and Paterson where other New Jersey drivers think there is not enough noise pollution in the world so they must use their horns. But now I’m home, thank God. I had to wait about 10 hours before I could pee. There just wasn’t any time or opportunity. I’m going to relax, dammit and the first person who gets between me and the keg is going to get his knees broken.
Happy Chrishannukahmas and a very merry Kwanzadan. Put down you shopping bags and take a load off. Rico’s on the deck out back with Florence. There’s a keg of some kind of beer or ale type thing out there. It’s in the snow bank to keep it crisp. Never Summer I think. The local beer emporium scored it a 97. Pretty good. If you brought anything, just set it on the sideboard in the dining room. I have one of those orange cheeseballs with the nuts on it that no one wants to admit they really like. And I’ve whipped up some piggy back dates.
Our musical entertainment comes from the annex up north. Remember the McKenzie Brothers? No? Ok, remember “a beer in a tree”? Ringing any bells? Have another Never Summer. It’ll come back to you. Everyone sing-a-long now:
Ladies, gents and Shoobies, don’t mess up my living room. If you want to punch someone’s ticket for being a kool-aid drinking jerk, take it outside. And take the trash to the dumpster while you’re at it.
Party on, Conflucians.
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