This year, ESI tried a new approach to the Christmas party. We had some food and drinks in a private room at Dave and Busters and then were let loose in the giant game room. Of course, only a few people actually won cards with free game money, but those who did were very generous in sharing, a.k.a freeloading off of Brian's winner's luck. Overall, I thought it was a good time. Josh got into the virtual boxing, and felt it for two days later, Suzie (our team's Admin professional) kicked everyone's butt at skeeball, and Brian showed us up at basketball. The entire Howalt family (one of the vice presidents and the rest of his family who also work at ESI) gave an impressive racing debut as well!
eakfast with Grandmother and plenty of Wii playing.
I had two very heartwarming things happen to me in the last two days, both unexpected but both the perfect thing to put a smile on anyone's face. The first was the delivery of a very beautiful bouquet of flowers from a very special friend (aka my mom), reminding me that this is in fact my 25th Christmas on this earth, wow, can you believe it? The second came from a complete stranger. We were waiting in the pew today to leave church and a little boy (maybe six or so) looks at me and says "Excuse me, I just wanted to tell you, you're pretty." He made my day, to say the least!
This December Josh and I were lucky enough to go with Chrystal and Aaron to a Jags game again. The weather was perfect, especially considering it was December and we had no coats on and probably could have even gone with shorts! The jags played the Carolina Panthers and beat them pretty bad. Battle of the Wildcats!
