Pre-New Year's Eve Party by the numbers

Every year at Christmas, we have our Annual A-List Christmas Party. We began the tradition in college, and our first party consisted of drinking Boone’s Farm while we made “Man Cookies.” We made gingerbread men and decorated them like the boy who most recently wronged us, and then we ate them. Therapeutic AND delicious! We’ve gone out to dinner and dancing and drinking any number of times, and now usually Kendra hosts and we go to Jordano or make dinner ourselves. This year, Kendra cooked out of her new Rachael Ray cookbook, and the rest of us provided the side dishes. So I now present to you a rundown of our evening – in numbers.

Number of the A-List members present and accounted for -- 4

The Food and Drink Part:
Number of bottles of red wine consumed – 2 (and one was the biggie sized kind)

Number of bottles of white wine consumed – 1 (I did that all by myself!)

Number of “appetizers” that were a throwback to our high school days – 3 (sun chips, cheese dip and twizzlers – YUM!!!)

Number of times we said “I’m SO FULL” and then kept eating – 250

Number of delicious ingredients that comprised Kendra’s culinary masterpiece – 7

The Inside Jokes Part:
Number of references to one time when things between Becki and I got “wheird” – at least 5

Number of references to “Wayne’s World” – 85

Number of references to parties of debauchery at Karen’s parents’ house – 25

Number of times we said things to each other that no outsider would be able to understand – 946

The Music Part:
Number of songs on the “A-List Greatest Hits 1993-1999” compilation cd so awesomely put together by Becki and Beth -- 19

Number of times we listened to it all the way through that evening – 2

Number of times Becki and I stopped in the middle of a conversation to say our favorite parts from “Slam” by Onyx, much to the annoyance of Kendra and Karen – 12

Number of times Becki and I performed a dramatic interpretation of Air Supply’s “Making Love out of Nothing at All” – 3

Number of times we did the above while Karen recorded it on her new camcorder – 1

Number of times you will see that – 0

The Evening Outing Part:
Number of miles we drove to go to a VERY SPECIAL store for our semi-annual visit – 5

Number of items purchased there – 5

Number of times the lady working at Walgreens told us we should get a life since it was Friday night and we were at Walgreens – at least 3

Number of times we thought to ourselves “We need lives? You work at Walgreens.” – at least 3 (especially after she told us the story of her last DUI. Super. Please just ring up our ice cream.)

The Helmet Voice Part:
Number of minutes in which I broke out the patented “helmet voice” – about 10

Number of people we made fun of during that time – 2

Number of minutes we spent laughing hysterically about what I said – at least 20

Number of chances that we’re not going straight to hell because of that – 0

Number of us who would say it was totally worth it – 4

And that, my friends, ends the post that no one will think is nearly as funny as we do. Because sometimes? You totally have to be there. And in this case, you would have totally had to be there for the past 16 or so years. You might say that this post? Is for Members Only.