my lush friends... not.

FREE BEER! (remember when it used to be funny to write that to get people's attention, then in smaller type to write the real purpose of the note, like, "no, just kidding. we're having a raffle for kids with leukemia." or, "that got your attention, didn't it? math study group at 8 tonight." jerks.)

so we had a bunch of folks from our birth class over yesterday. we've all stayed in touch and gotten together about once a month to compare notes (and babies). we also had our new friends becky and mark and their two babes over. while planning the party, i said in the evite that we would provide the beer.

long story short (if it's not already too late for "shortness"), i nearly purchased a pony keg. i thought, well, we're all still on our first kids, so we probably still have some party in us. moments before making the last moves on a pony keg selection, i decided to do a little more research. well, apparently pony kegs are EIGHTY-SIX 12oz glasses of beer. which means each party guest would need to consume about 7 1/2 glasses of beer. now we certainly have friends who would gladly drink 7 1/2 glasses of beer on a sunday afternoon, but we started having doubts about the drinking stamina of this particular crowd.

so we went with plan B: a couple 12 packs, a few 6 packs, and the makings for gin n tonics.

after everyone left last night, my husband started gathering up the empties. he commented that he had to dump out an inch or two from each bottle. no one had completely finished their beers. after that job was done, he decided to count them. the grand total?... drum roll... twelve. yes, TWELVE beers. that's twelve empties, not twelve beers left. and don thinks two of them were ours from the night before.

now we have a fridge full of beer, and a garbage pail full of beers floating around in now-lukewarm water. so, FREE BEER at our place!