This week has been a blur of after work activities - most of them relating to the holidays. Monday was my evening to cook so I threw together an elaborate meal of spaghetti and garlic toast. In a random turn of events everyone was home so we played a game after dinner. Generally at least someone if not multiple people are busy in the evenings (except Thursdays which are reserved for house night).
Tuesday was my small group's Christmas party. We decorated cookies and had a White Elephant gift exchange. I left with a nice wooden bracelet from Africa I believe. Other popular items were a set of 22 tea candles, a slightly tacky santa advent calendar, the book Feminism is for Everyone, a Red Skins shirt, and many others.
Wednesday evening our office went to the Eisenhower Executive Office Building to go bowling. You may be thinking "That's strange - thought that was an office building for white house staff and the VP" Well you are correct, but it just so happens to also have a bowling ally in the basement (which is connected to The White House!). One of my coworker's husband works for the administration in a different building, but still gets the perks of being able to reserve the alley. I even got a strike on my second frame! It was pretty awesome, but it is rather small and since we had little kids along and there is no electronic scoring we didn't actually play a game - it was just a free for all. Also the lanes tilt to the left - warning to all of you who may one day play there.
Tonight is our house gift exchange. We always seem to be running out of cups or washing them more than we need to simply because we don't know who's is who's. We are solving this problem by exchanging cups. We drew names last week so tonight we get to see what beverage container we will each now be using for the foreseeable future. I had Cara's name so I got a plain glass cup and then I used my etching cream to decorate it. I will snap a few shots of our new glassware tonight a post it soon.
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