Hostess with the mostess? NOT!!

I hosted my first-ever grown-up cocktail party last night - what was I waiting for?? I forgot how much fun it is to kick back and have a few pops with the girls!

Of course, since I'm a novice, plenty went wrong. Since I didn't have enough time to set up properly, the party suffered greatly:

- Completely forgot to cook and/or serve the hot food. Frozen pig-in-blanket anyone? How about raw baked brie?
- Same thing with the garnish.
- Forgot to put out the soda, so the bar only had Costco-size bottle of vodka, Rose's Cocktail infusions, and martini glasses. I'm sure my pregnant friends appreciated that.
- Party started and I had NO makeup on and WET hair!
- Party started and I had NO makeup on and DRY FRIZZY hair!
- Forgot to take pictures, but when I remembered, I was so buzzed from the martinis that, well, it's probably better that no pix were taken!

But I know everyone had a good time, here's proof:

Note the well-depleted bottles of mixers. There were only 15 of us, and each drink uses about a shot glass of mixer. Either the girls got good n' tipsy or they were hopped up on the sugary sweet no-booze versions of the cocktails...either way they were drinking, and I hope they didn't notice what a LAME hostess I was!

Here's what else went RIGHT:
- I got to see all of my local girlfriends and at least say hello!
- I have enough leftover veggies for dinner tonight, and tomorrow night, and the night after that.....
- No one at the party knew everyone there - so I think everyone got to make a new girlfriend, and how often does THAT happen?!
- I have discovered my new favorite cocktail- Cranberry Martini, yum!!

Next time (and there WILL BE a next time), I'll get someone to help me prepare. And I won't be shopping at Costco for a cocktail party again, too many leftovers! In the meantime, I am happy to have my first real, grown-up cocktail party under my belt!

Have a great weekend!
Cheers, Lara

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I threw a potluck for all of my friends that finished grad school and made it through our first year of work. I had tons of wine and was luckily over prepared with a full meal and dessert because all that was brought was a bottle of wine, a weird pasta dish, a super rich chocolate cake and some cold cuts!!! A lot of people came too! There were like no leftovers, tons of cake and lots of wine.
At least you didn't have one of your guests tell you you should have made lasagna instead of home-cooked indian food! Another one said they didn't like indian food and moped a little.
Now isn't the whole point of a pot luck to have the hope/luck of having good food???

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In case anyone needs me, I'll be weeping in the corner over the fact that I totally didn't get an invite.

I want to have a cocktail party! I want to make new friends! Now that I think about it, I'd be happy just to have friends...period. Why is it so hard to make friends as you get older?