In lieu of a holiday party, we decided to go the non committal route and have a party the day after the world was due to end. That way our friends’ last thoughts of us as they burn furniture for heat would be that we at least made an attempt to get together during the season of gettin’ togetha. And, hey, if they still wanted to make the half day trek by foot fighting flesh eaters we were offering our house as a base for survivors to gather and continue on in the cruel new world as a team. To be certain we were properly prepared, each “party” invitation included a personally picked out skill that the invitee should be able to contribute along with a single strike anywhere match for good measure. Skills ranged from how to build an improvised shelter (given to our architect friend) to how to hotwire a car (mechanic friend) to storytelling (just a great guy). Even though no (out of the ordinary) catastrophe hit, we decided the ambiance of the party should still remain as if it did so all lighting was candle and solar sourced (okay, most lighting), the food was properly themed as camp food (chili, veggies from our storehouse in the basement, high-calorie snack bars), and we burned a fire of fallen branches in a steel can like glorious bums! It was an entertaining evening of skills presentations and the comfort of people you’d be lucky to have around if the earth’s polarity were to shift.
Get your Go Bag ready!