Monday, September 12, 2016

Score!



     We had company yesterday for lunch, an agreeable group of people, and it was a fun afternoon.   It’s been a while since I’ve hosted anyone other than immediate family and I’d forgotten the side benefits of entertaining.
          Sure, you do have to get the house clean and hide all traces of the squalor that you usually live in. Shoes actually go in closets, the butter dish finally gets washed, and the newspapers get picked up.
          But all the major parts of the house are clean and tidy all at once. It’s a heady feeling.
          Then, you have entertainment delivered right to your door in the form of nice people with good conversation (if you’re lucky, that is).
          And after several pleasant house during which you all eat delectables you don’t usually buy just for yourself, they go home.
          I now have a clean house, two bottles of wine I didn’t have before, and half a cake. Not a bad afternoon’s take.

11 comments:

  1. I love you. Just love this post.

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  2. Ah, the side benefits of entertaining. Love 'em. :-)

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  3. Sounds like you did well for yourself. Hope Mamie was at her best.

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    1. She was good as gold,, very brave and quiet with all those strangers.

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  4. Well done you. That is a masterly reframe of the perils of entertaining. Always look on the bright side of life... Wine and cake help too.
    How nice to hear someone else doesn't have all of the house clean and tidy.

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  5. I'd say that was a good deal. Maybe you should entertain people more often.

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  6. I'd be happy enough with the clean house and cake. Scintillating conversation can take place in other people's homes.

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    1. I think you're on to something. While you're at someone's else house being entertained, someone else comes to your place, cleans, and leaves cake.
      Brilliant.

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  7. The butter dish gets washed! I love that. It's absolutely true that that's a barometer of entertaining!

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  8. oh I seriously need to clean house. perhaps I should invite someone over.

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  9. What a haul and all you had to do was spiffy up a butter dish. Cool.

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