8:05 a.m. The wife is approaching panic mode as the smoke detector battery issue has been declared irrelevant.
8:07 a.m. dressed and off to straighten the dining room
8:17 a.m. Shoes and Mouthwash are being placed out of view. God forbid that any guest know that we have any of either. My Fedoras have been exiled into the upstairs bathroom.
8:20 a.m My nephew once told me that age 15 was the year when teenagers are at their greatest pain-in-the-neck stage. My youngest is doing his best to confirm this today.
8:25 a.m. In fairness to the wife she was up till midnight baking cookies and has already done dishes, cut fruit and will shortly be making those awesome Chicken Wings, how she keeps up on this is almost beyond me.
8:32 a.m. Already found an install cd for Works, my missing thumb drive and a piece to the AH game Banzai that was missing.
8:38 a.m. The Bill-vase is now out of sight. Yes I keep my current bills in a vase. Do you have a problem with that?
8:55 a.m. Found the missing Illinois coin the 50 state set is now complete, but the wife’s arm brace is missing.
8:58 a.m Off to the store to buy the list of stuff, will the vacuuming and the sweeping be done when I get back, knowing my boys I wouldn’t bet big money on it.
9:47 a.m. Back from the store two interesting things, Hannafords is already putting out its Valentine’s day displays. Kappy’s not only carries both the Chivas Royal Salute 21 year old scotch but their 25 year old variety. I’ll have to tell Steve about their large microbrew selection as well, but the big thing is they actually had a brand of Lambrusco other than Rinuite. Its the first time I’ve seen another in a local store in decades. The brand is Canei and I’ll let you know if its any good later in the day. The Wine Cask blog seems to like it.
10:00 a.m T-4 hours till the doors open. The unplowed street is full of cars, apparently the Jehovah Witness’ who live across the street (very nice people) are holding some kind of service. If it isn’t over by 1:30 my wife parking will be at a premium on the road. Hope the wife doesn’t look out the door.
10:04 a.m. Vacuuming is done. Youngest son denies that the live-blogging had anything to do with it.
10:52 a.m. Mom is feeling well enough to come, she tells me since Christmas a flock of 21 geese have been hanging out at her house. Aunt Lucy likely will not make it but at 87 years old that isn’t but she did still walk down the road for her newspaper.
10:55 a.m. The awesome wings with the brown sugar and the soy sauce are now in preparation. Lasagna #1 is about to go into the oven. My sister in law Joyce dropped one during an open house several years ago. It gave us a reason to get rid of the crappy rug in the dining room.
10:59 a.m. Irish Creme found in the house. One less item off the list of booze to byo.
11:01 a.m. T-3 hours and counting. The back porch remains at about 42 degrees and has become the backup fridge of the house. Apparently according to the wife Perdue doesn’t puck their wings like they used to.
11:30 a.m. Because of an odd design and a bad move by my son I spent 30 min trying to get a curtain up without becoming eligible for this year’s Darwin awards. There is a sheer drop of one floor beneath one of his windows and he managed to lose the curtain off of it.
Noon t-2 hours: The little stuff is becoming a real problem the boys are needing some heavy motivating and the cars from the service across the street are still there. Wife still hasn’t noticed them.
12:15 p.m. Cookies are on display
12:30 p.m. The Booze is ready had to play with the images slightly
12:52 p.m. The youngest has decided to air out his room, likely not a bad idea, the Lasagna is taking an inordinate amount of time to finish, it is delaying the wings trip to the oven.
1:11 p.m. Who the hell is Matt Smith? Apparently he will be the 11th Doctor.
1:20 p.m. Lasagna #1 is out and Wings are in. Since the wings need a lot of time that means Lasagna #2 will go in during the party proper.
Chicken Wings in Lasagna out.
1:25 p.m. The wife is taking a break and has informed me there will be NO pictures of her on any liveblog of the party.
1:26 p.m. One might ask why bother liveblogging this? It occurs to me that lots of people liveblog big events but something like this is something that everyone does and can relate to the work involved in doing it.
1:30 p.m. The BBC has updated its Dr. Who page. Combom has not reaction other than congratulations.
1:32 p.m. There are already 200+ news articles on this story according to Google, and the blogs must be going nuts. Who wants to bet how long it will take him to become the top entry in google for Matt Smith?
1:35 p.m. All the prep seems to be done except for the moving of a vacuum and the spreading of some ice melt. Lets get ready to RUMBLE.
1:57 p.m. Front door is wrapped we are as ready as we are going to be.
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