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every year i get dressed up and go to my work christmas party. it's always a good time, and it's nice to have something to dress to the nines for. the only down side is that i always go alone and have hoped that someday i'll have someone special to take with me. this year brendan came. it was very fun, and he did well socializing with all my colleagues – many of which are nearly 40 years older than him. marilyn and knickers couldn't make it so he only had the pleasure of meeting frank (well, he met other people too, but as far as significant workmates, he only got to meet frank). he really liked him though and told me that if he worked at bbd he'd be friends with frank too. i really like frank's wife rita, she's really fun and loud, they're a great couple.

over the last few weeks i've been planning brendan's outfit, and it turned out super good. he even wore some suspenders that are all paisley and awesome. they weren't really visible from under his vest but rita caught a glimpse of him and really liked them. she said the fact that they're not really seen makes them like a garter belt – "very sexy" :p my dress was less fancy than some of the other girls, but i liked it, it was unique because it's red, meanwhile everyone else was dressed in black.

i'd told brendan about my friend atousa who i go walking with at lunch time. she's larger than life and as soon as he met her he could see that i was not exaggerating. she's really funny, and VERY extroverted, she wanted for us to walk around to each table smoozing. it was quite the experience.

our food was good and drinks were free. atousa got me up dancing to "mony mony" by billy idol, which was followed by "rasputin". unfortunately she said that because she's persian she doesn't know how to dance so she was copying all my dance moves – this is unfortunate because i'm not a great dancer :S however, it was fun and she didn't know the difference. b sat out which was totally fine, i wouldn't make anyone dance if they didn't want to. however, "wonderful tonight" by eric clapton (who is a bit of an achilles heal for b) came on, so we did one slow dance (there weren't many, in fact that was the first of the evening). i'd requested a marvin gaye song, but it didn't come on by the time we left after 11.

b did very well, and i think it was interesting for my colleagues to see me with a man. some of the women would watch us with smiles on their faces. it turns out that my colleague francisco's new wife is the mother of b's friend mike from highschool. too funny. they had a nice chat about that because b and mike had just hungout last week! haha.

turned my whole world upside down.