I just received this invitation:
Come celebrate the New Year with us!
Thursday, December 31, 2009
8:00 pm til 2010
[friends’ address], Ithaca
Hang out by the fire, inside or outside, relax, and shake off the old year. Dancing is entirely a possibility.
We'll have the champagne chilled and ready! Please bring your favorite beverage or a nibbly type of thing...
Kids are welcome. Feel free to crash here for the night and join us for a New Year's Day hike in the morning (but not too early in the morning)--or maybe a skate out at the pond...
Hope you can make it,
[friends’ names]
RSVP by Mon Dec 28
This is exactly what I am all worked up over! No one in Ithaca is complaining that their neighbor’s Christmas lights are tacky, or that the mall is a zoo right now. No, they are dreaming up entirely thoughtful and charming parties so that they can say good-bye to the old and welcome in the new by embracing everything magical this time of year...
Friends here are starting to make jokes that I should work for the Ithaca Chamber of Commerce. I guess it’s hard for me not to beam and act like a honeymooner, especially when I am getting enticing little e-mails like the one above!
Cheers!
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