December the Fifteenth cleared as a date OK with the 'rents.

PARTY ON!

Items for the day

1. It looks like the party will be on Saturday the 15th. I'll get my schedule cleared at work, and everything should run smoothly.
It wouldn't be a good idea to try to throw a party on the Thursday before you're trying to catch a flight. It would just be too impractical for you and your family, trying to pack/sleep/etc.

I know Frascella comes home from school around that day, so we just need to make sure we give our friends ample notice.
And also hope that we didn't pick a totally inconvenient time.
I would sort of hate for this party to be just you, me, the Malchow boys, Josh, and the 2 people from work who actually showed up.
Chances are someone like Lauren Selfridge won't be home for the holidays yet. But we should still invite her and anyone else we feel like hanging out with (no matter how far away or flaky they are).

2. I'm up for a nativity play. Can we jazz it up a bit?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87wGHfAi17Q

3. I also really want to do a boozy Martin/Sinatra duet of Christmas classics, where we scat, banter, and ad-lib so much that we destroy the pace of the song.
"Oh the weather outside is frightful - "
"But the fire is so de-diddly-ightful"
"You know it is!"
"And since we've no place to go -"
What a shame!"
"Let it snow, let it snow, start a fire, bundle up, its 10 below, let it snow, snow, snow, snip-snop snoppity snow!

It will take 7 minutes to get through "Frosty the Snowman."

4. Ideally, I want our party to look and feel like this.

I think we're going to need to do a nativity play.

What do you think?

Slumber party is totally cool w. me. I'm pushed to go for December 15th (Saturday). I'm probably going to be in Chicago the weekend before X-Mas to visit my grandpa...
Of course we can try to finagle a Thursday night party, and I can fly on Friday and take that day off?

Slumber party

Will it be possible to allow people to crash at your place, if:

* they've had too much to drink
* the mountain roads are too slippery for them
* they're cool people

?

It's not like 50 people are sleeping over (It's not like 50 people are even coming to the party). Most people will be responsible (barf) and head home early, anyway.

This is just in case I get guys like Rob and Jeb to come from NYC and Pennsylvania, respectively, without having to make them leave early to catch a train or something.

Picking a date

The first thing we need to establish is the date for our Indie Christmas Party.

Here's my ideal picks (going from best to worst):

1.) Saturday, December 22nd
2.) Friday, December 21st
3.) Sunday, December 23rd
4.) Saturday, December 15th
5.) Friday, December 14th.

That 14th/15th weekend is almost too soon.

Saturday, the 22nd, is perfect. It is however, the most hectic weekend at work - so in order to navigate my work schedule perfectly, we'll need to pick a date ASAP. That way, I can avoid as many dumb conflicts as possible.