Housewarming 2.0 from 6pm to 2am.

The American Dime Museum, as a feature of its April 23 spring benefit, will attempt to host a show of unique odors. The challenge is for YOU to create and contain a very special smell - good, bad, but NOT toxic. The odor must be contained in some way and last from the evening of Friday, April 23 through Sunday, April 25. Judging will take place Friday, April 23 at 9 pm.

I'm writing this on Sunday. This is quite possibly the first time all week that I've had the opportunity to sit down and really relax. The dearth of posts from the last few days is directly related to the Housewarming 2.0 post that took up the space on the top of my blog during that time.

I would try to list out and thank all the people who showed up, but I'd doubtless embarrass myself with how many times I'd have to write "and girl/boy friend" without knowing their correct name that I'll just say all 50 of you know who you are and thanks for making the evening very cool. The party started around 7:30 and went all the way to the scheduled end time at 2 am.

I'll share the helpful advice that really worked for me this weekend: as tempting as it might be to give out the invitations to your really cool party with an end time of "Whenever it's done," that's may be a mistake. Especially in my circle, some people read that as "Get really drunk and have a free breakfast on me."

Last Housewarming party (yeah, I know its weird to say that when I live the same house) I gave out the invitations that way. People stayed until I basically went to bed and left the door unlocked. Unfortunately it also got me really cranky about an hour before I made that decision, but had already decided that I wanted everybody OUT.

So Friday night when people asked me, "Are you really kicking everyone out at 2am?" I could smile and nod yes. At 3am Suzy and I were sound asleep and ready for breakfast with her friend Thomas, one of the three people who asked permission to sleep over upstairs and the only one who finally decided to stay at the end of the evening.

I started out the evening with 8 bottles of hard liquor out on the dining room table and about $60 worth of party supplies like chicken pieces, burgers, buns and paper products next to the barbecue. As the evening went on, the circle of alcohol-filled glass grew larger and more food products began to arrive, especially vegetarian stuff.

I had to tell the story of why I'm having a yearly Housewarming party to a few people, and I got a couple of pretty cool gifts out of the deal.

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