party favors
I can still hear the chant from those college days "PARTY! PARTY! PARTY!". And Lordy, Lordy, Lordy --- didn't we think we had been to the party of all parties. The money in party supplies was mostly spent in grain alcohol and Hawaiian punch. The party favors were provided by a few of those loose college women's panties, and a few glow sticks, and the occasional glow necklace that were always brought by weird little Ray. But he always needed all the help he could get when it came to even getting invited to the parties. Actually, his best contributions to the party, according to some of those crowds, was the ganja, the mary jane, the cool weed --- illegal as it was, he could always find it and wasn't afraid to drag it in. Thank goodness those days have passed, for everyone except for weird little Ray that is. Now we have become so much more sophisticated, so much more worldly and quite frankly so much older, that the parties that we look forward to are those that assure us we will certainly be home before midnight. The parties that we look forward to now are those parties that we hope will offer some interesting food and some options of interesting drinks even if they do not contain alcohol, and the parties that the infamous weird little Ray will not be attending. And now that we are so much more mature and so much more worldly and life is no longer about how messed up you can get and whose underwear you wore home on your head, the party supplies budget for throwing a great party has more to do with the real food and beverages and most importantly the interesting people who will be attending. Of course, interesting people don't have to be mensa members or ballerinas or movie stars, just your ordinary, everyday neighbor and co-worker and family member can make for a fabulous gathering and if you insist on those glow necklaces, so be it. But take it easy on the goofy party games that you think may be just a little ice-breaker game. Just welcome your guests, introduce them to the rest of the group, perhaps mentioning some little thing that they may have in common, put on some good music and "PARTY! PARTY! PARTY!". If I were a gambling person, I would bet that you would be getting those thank you notes and thank you calls and indications that they would love to come again, as long as weird little Ray won't be there.