Peter's Holiday Party

Last night I attended Peter and Kim's holiday party. I only knew three people there, but I still had a great time. It's obvious that good people stick together.

Peter is a photographer so he took portraits of everyone at the party. I was balancing a lime on my head. It was a lime Peter was previously juggling. I might have been a little drunk at this point, but who's counting?

There were some interesting conversations at the party. The first and most bizarre was one woman asking another about her work with cancer patients. Woman1 asked Woman2 if she knew how they disposed of the tissues and tumors removed from cancer patients. "Weird," I thought to myself and couldn't possible think of a reason she would need to know that kind of information. Ends up Woman1 is a professional dog trainer. She helps train "cadaver dogs" who (obviously) search for dead bodies. Apparently she needs body fluid and tissues to teach the dogs about the scent. However, it's really tough to get a hold of that kind of material. (Yeah, no kidding.) Woman2 agreed to look into it though I doubt I'll ever know the outcome.

The second interesting conversation was with a woman, Karen. She told me about a cosmic Las Vegas meeting she had many years ago. (It came up because Peter and I told the story of how we met in a Las Vegas elevator.) Karen saw a very attractive man on the plane as she was going to Las Vegas to meet up with some girlfriends. It was the 80's and she thought he looked like George Michael. She was disappointed to see him kissing another woman on the cheek when they got off the plane. A couple days later, she found herself playing craps across from him in the Stardust. He flirted...she flirted...they hit it off and had a fabulous weekend. Ends up he lived in Houston so they dated for awhile. Things ended and they lost touch. Three years later, she was driving on a major highway in Houston and he ends up being in the car one lane over. They stop, catch up, and dated again for awhile. Karen said things eventually ended between them, but it sounds so cosmic, maybe it hasn't really come to an end.

I had a lot of fun last night. I met some really neat people, like Patrick, Peter's new coworker. The wine was great. The host and hostess were amazing. All in all, it was a fabulous party. Of course, it didn't hurt that no less than three strangers complimented me on my clothing, shoes, hair, etc. I needed that.

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