gwax's rumblings

I did make a three-layered (vanilla/strawberry/chocolate) cake but that’s not really what I want to talk about; I’m only ref­er­enc­ing it in the title and begin­ning of this post to spite Hippo, who con­de­scend­ingly sug­gested I blog about my cake. I’d far rather talk about the party I threw Sunday in honor of my recent birthday.

I can say, with­out reser­va­tion, that this was one of the best birth­day par­ties that I can remem­ber and it was all thanks to the peo­ple. The turn out was spec­tac­u­lar, includ­ing col­lege friends, high school friends I haven’t seen in years, co-worker friends and friends-of-friends (some of whom I had not pre­vi­ously met). The party was set to kick off at 3pm, with snacks, beers and even­tual bar­be­cu­ing but peo­ple didn’t start show­ing up until nearly 4pm. For a short while, the turnout seemed like it might be a bit low but then we must have hit the fash­ion­ably late turn­ing point and it turned into quite the social gath­er­ing, peak­ing at around 20 – 25 peo­ple. People were still show­ing up well into the evening and it didn’t start to dwin­dle much until about 10pm or 11pm. I can’t quite say that it went off with­out a hitch as there were cer­tainly some issues but every­thing went well in the end.

It was a great party, every­thing that I had hoped, and my thanks go out to every­one who showed up.