Holiday Hijinx

So Mark went over to a friend's house today to help her set up a new computer. She's a woman 'of a certain age', recently separated and soon to be divorced. While he was there, her estranged husband phoned.

She promptly told him she was busy; she had a man in her bedroom.

Thankfully, Mark made it out alive.

And now for something completely different - we had a dinner party last night and deep-fried everything we could think of. Our friends showed up with lots of different ingredients and even brought an extra deep fryer.

Today, after cleaning up the fallout, I looked on top of the fridge and noticed something wonderful. Somewhere between the deep fried bananas with vanilla ice cream and the deep fried Mars Bars that accidentally got thrown under the couch a little bit, we had forgotten about a bunch of Christmas goodies that other people had brought for dessert.

Mmm... Opera Cake, some sort of Scotcheroo-type squares, authentic Italian baked goods, fudge, and truffles.

Wow, what a score. We couldn't help but have a bit, but we'll bring all those goodies along to the New Years celebration tomorrow, and reunite them with their proper owners. And then hopefully eat some more of them.