Getting Old!

Last night Adam and I went to his company's Christmas Party for Autotrader.com. They always do a really nice job with this affair. This was our third year attending, and again had a lot of fun. They hosted it at the Westin in Buckhead, which was where they had it last year, but "stepped it up a notch a little"! They always have a really awesome buffet, music, casino gambling (you never can beat that) that you use your "winnings" to go towards raffle prizes, and of course booze!

It's always fun to get all dressed up! Especially when you're used to hanging out in workout clothes the majority of your life. My mom took the kiddos to her place, so we had the WHOLE night! Some people may take that as an opportunity to "blow it out" (my new favorite phrase :) )!! This is mine and Adam's version of that!

Adam and I got to the party at around 7:30, fashionably late :) We signed in, got our picture made (a must!), and each used one of our drink tickets. From there, it was off to the buffet as we were both starving! We ate and then mingled a bit. Eventually hooked up with Adam's buddies from work and their wives/girlfriends. It's always fun to meet the people that your spouse works with and talks about all of the time!

From there, we were on to the gambling portion of the evening by around 8:45. We scored at the table we ended up at because the blackjack dealer admitted that she had NEVER dealt before! She was so funny! She kept adding wrong, and when we would lose she would forget to take our chips. And it really wasn't that she didn't care, she just wasn't the best dealer. Good thing for the "casino" that we were playing with fake money. We started at the table with $50,000 between the two of us, and left up $75,000 within 15 min. The first raffle drawing was supposed to be at 9pm, so we put our five tickets in and waited a bit. We were pumped because we had like 5 of the maybe 10 tickets that were in there! Unfortunately though, they didn't do the 9pm drawing for some reason. So we ended up bumping into Adam's manager as I was desperately looking for a place to sit. I've lost my tolerance for stiletto heels in the past year of not wearing them at all to save my feet!!

We hung out until 10pm just because we were convinced we were going to win something!! Unfortunately for us, but fortunate for others, we watched 3 lucky people walk away at 10pm with a new playstation, an ipod, and a digital camera. That is the point that we called it a night. In the past two years, we've always gotten a room and stayed the night. This year, we decided it would be nice to wake up in our own bed. So, I drove home and called it a night by 11:30pm. Felt like 3am to me!!

So not sure if it's the 4am wake up call earlier that morning from Gracie, the chasing of the kids, or the fact that I'm pushing 30, but me and midnight don't mix!! And I'm ok with that! We had PLENTY of fun to make it a complete evening without taking it into the witching hours! No matter if it is because I'm getting old or what, I'm ok with my earlier bedtime!

Until Later...

K :)