Holiday party at my place

Today, in celebration of the upcoming holidays, I had a few people over to my new place for a potluck feast. Below is a picture of the food. Junko and Aleksey brought a home-made quiche (ham and cheesyness). Leymi brought a spinach tart thing. Dawn brought/made mulled wine and Scottish shortbread (kinda like cookies). Cathy brought chicken stuffing (made from scratch) and we made eggnog together (from scratch). I made Hanukkah sugar cookies as pictured below as well.


(You can also see in this picture our super cool, homemade eggnog that was quickly devoured!)(Top are my Hanukkah cookies, bottom is the Scottish shortbread that kinda broke into little pieces in transit).

After lunch, we watched the animated "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" and I thought I would be really nice and download the Spanish subtitles for Leymi. About 10 minutes into the show, I realized that they were the subtitles for the Jim Carrey "Grinch" movie. Whoops! Then we watched "A Charlie Brown Christmas" with the correct Spanish subtitles. That cartoon made me realize that the kids are SO mean to Charlie Brown. They actually call him stupid and an idiot. What a bunch of jerks!

Here are some fun group shots.
Starting clockwise from the 7:00 position: Dela, Aleksey, Junko, Me, Dawn, Cathy and Leymi (with the short brown hair)

Here we are again: Dela, Leymi, Me, Cathy, Aleksey (in the back), Junko and Dawn falling down in the purple shirt.


Dawn and me in a very tight embrace!
Dela and me in a funny pose.
Here I am in my living room, probably on my way to setting up my computer for movie madness.

I leave you with the ever popular British word lesson of the day: manky = dirty
In a sentence: Now my shirt's all manky because I have been making mulled wine for 2 hours.