Life in Party Central

Between November 15^th and December 15^th, our house celebrates five birthdays. This is particularly significant because there are only nine people in my house. Birthdays three and four were this week, Elissa on Tuesday and Jessie on Saturday. For Elissa’s birthday, I fortunately had time to decorate the house because I didn’t have to work in the morning (Tuesdays I work from 12-7, unless I have an accompaniment in the morning). Elissa likes penguins so each of us colored a penguin coloring page and put them up around the dining room. I made her a card out of poster board and trimmed a little off of the bottom and used that to make a crown. I drew kissing penguins and cut around them and it made a crown! I did the same things for Chris’ birthday, but with dinosaurs. I also tried to make “sushi” but I have never made it before and was using corn husks instead of seaweed because I live in Little Village, not some place where they have seaweed. It didn’t turn out at all like sushi, but it’s the thought that counts, right?

For Jessie’s birthday we had brunch. We surprised her by inviting some people that lived in her house last year. The brunch was delicious and a lot of fun. After brunch we went to McKinley Park (by South House) for ice skating. Since I cannot put on ice skates without embarrassing myself, I joined Carlos, Ann P and Jen from South House outside the rink. Carlos, Ann and I made a snowman. We named him Al Capone Daley Jr. He was super fun and super big. We were getting cold so we went back to the ice rink and eventually our friends decided to leave. About ten minutes had passed since we left Al behind but he was already destroyed. And by destroyed, I mean that parts of Al we strewn across the field. After ice skating some of us went to North House and then Elissa’s friends’ house to celebrate Elissa’s birthday with them Ann K and I joined them in going out to bars in Wrigleyville, which was a lot of fun.

For work this week? Some highlights include: going with Kerry to a school on the southwest side to talk about Taller because they are doing an Advent spare change campaign for us and going to Sr Kathy’s house for a staff meeting to talk about the strategic plan. I spent all day Friday at St Agnes which made for a boring afternoon because no clients came in. The beginning of the week was crazy busy but things have calmed down a bit.  I do have a lot of accompaniments scheduled between now and Christmas, though.