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Yay for Texas Craft Beer Love!
I haven't yet made it to Whip In, since I'm a Houstonian and rarely get out to Austin, but it's on my list of "must-do"s

When I was growing up, my family had a pool and the liner was black, it was awesome! But then we got a hole in the liner that was irreparable and we had to get a new liner installed. The company we used didn't have the black option and we had to go with ho-hum blue like everyone else. It just lost that bit of pizzaz.

a pillow for my head and a pillow to hug or lean on. Sometimes, I can substitute a person to hug or lean on...

I just returned to living alone from having my sibling and his wife living with me for 6 months. It so freeing to be able to run around the house in varied stages of undress in the morning or while getting ready, chat with my cat while taking a bath with the door open, dance to movies in the living room, and just be myself. However, while these habits change when I have guests, they don't change that much when I have a boyfriend over, he can see me in my varied states of undress ;)

ditto silverfire4200. rim down. even in a closed cabinet, cat hair is pervasive and I hate having to wash my glasses every time I bring them out to use them. To keep the rims from touching the cabinet, I have a cabinet liner that I replace periodically.

I usually deck the halls around the first weekend in December and then take it down at the Epiphany (January 6th). The twelve days of Christmas START on Christmas day and continue afterwards.

I do have some friends who still adhere to keeping the Christmas tree a secret from their kids and setting it up to "magically" appear decorated and all on Christmas morning.

As an avid knitter for the past 5 years, my family received their fair share of completely awful scarves and misshapen hats at the outset of my knitting career. They smiled, thanked me, and quietly placed the more awful of the scarves in the back of a closet somewhere. As my skills have improved, so has the appreciation of my family as they now receive items knit with skill and love to garner compliments from passers-by (I've been told).

The one thing that I keep in mind to ask new friends is whether their allergic to certain animal fibers so I can choose the yarn accordingly.

When it comes to what I want, I usually put together and edit a myregistry.com list of items that I'm loving in a range of prices for family members to peruse. My mom usually asks all of us for a list and then puts them all together in an all-family email.

Oooh, I'm going to have to look forward to this becoming a venue for galas and events down here! Also, so happy to see a Houston post!

Total cloth napkin nerd. I have a stack with enough cloth napkins for 30 people or more, which comes in handy at my parties. They mostly all go into a stash together, so it's the luck of the draw. I have very few tablecloths or placemats mostly because I don't have too many places to store them.

I love guests. But I'm also someone who works full time and so last minute things where I can't clear my schedule end up being:
1. here's a key
2. here's the kitchen layout
3. here's where you're going to sleep and the towels (on the couch or blow up mattress in
the living room)
4. don't mind the cats and the dog
5. act like it's your own place and come and go as you please
6. here's when we can plan stuff to do together.

I have 3 busy, working adults, 2 cats, and one dog in less than 1000 square feet, so people can't expect the Ritz, but they can expect boisterous company when everyone's home and some quiet time to themselves when we're all gone.