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We're up to twenty-seven RSVPs for the wine and cheese tasting tomorrow night, or twenty-nine people counting Julian and me. Jabbett, our fearless programming director, and his wife skabbett procured only thirty wine glasses on their impromptu purchasing adventure a few weeks ago. At the time, I thought thirty glasses were far too many, that the skjabbetts (I just invented that) had wasted money and that I'd have to hide half the glasses so people wouldn't think we'd planned for so many people.

Yeah, so...now I'm thinking that some people will be drinking out of plastic cups. I debated sending a friend out to buy those plastic wine cups (actually, she offerred), but they cost almost as much as our real glasses did, and that seems like even more of a waste, since the point of spending money of glasses instead of using plastic wasn't so much for the look as it was for avoiding that horrible plastic smell and taste.

It's not immortalized in my blog, but I know there are people out there who will back me up when I say that I predicted this two weeks ago. "Either no one will come or else the masses will descend and we will run out of everything," I said. Emergency provisions (wine, fruit, crackers, cheeses) are available in a few local stores Saturday night, though the wine and cheese selection will be more limited. No one selling pre-toveled wine glasses, though. Maybe I'll get lucky and while firty-five* people will show up over the course of the evening (it is not unreasonable to expect a dozen or more people to come without RSVPing), they will be thoughtful enough to space out their arrivals such that some people leave early, allowing me to dash into the kitchen to wash their glasses.

Also, I forgot to buy grapes. Julian, sweetheart, darling, love of my life, have I mentioned recently how important you and your grape-buying skills are to me?

* I realize that "firty-five" is not a number. It was a typo that originally said "firty-fove," and I only fixed half of it. However, I think that "firty-five" is a very good description of both my mental state and an imagined number of people that would otherwise be described as "too many," so I'm leaving this alone.