Carnivores live longer...

I hosted a dinner party tonight for my volunteer assistants that will be helping me with Pride next week. I really wanted to get together to describe what is going to go on next week, but mostly I wanted to get together for fun.

I also invited Jere Keys, the guy in charge of all of Pride. I invited him mostly because he's moving and this was one of the few times that I'll be able to hang out with him before he leaves. Plus I knew he'd be helpful in explaining what is going to take place next weekend.

When I sent out invitations, I thought about asking for dietary restrictions. I decided not to because I thought Shawn was the only non-meat eater of the invitees.

I was all ready and excited to finally be hosting people in my new house. When Shawn arrived with Eleata, Eleata informed me that she was a vegetarian. It wasn't a big deal because Shawn brought some sauce she could eat.

Then Kate came and informed me she too didn't eat meat. So far, everyone who had arrived wouldn't be able to eat the sauce I made since it had cow in it.

When Jere arrived, the first thing I said was, "Are you a vegetarian?" to which he replied, "yes." Argh! Everyone I invited to this meal didn't eat meat!!

Luckily, they were the only ones and it was easy to open a can of spaghetti sauce for them. It turned out fine, but next time, I'll have to make sure to ask.

I had a lot of fun tonight talking about Pride. We were going to count drink tickets next week, but it turned out that we didn't have to since they were already in rolls of 2000. We ended up just sitting around and talking.

I'm so glad these guys are helping me this year because think it will alleviate some stress that is inevitable. It will be nice to have 20 extra hands to do things for me.