This Saturday night is our big company Christmas party at the Sheraton. This is always a big deal for my company – they spend a lot of money on the whole evening for us. It starts off with a cocktail hour and open bar at 7:00 pm, so people have plenty of time to arrive and get happy. Then they have a formal sit down dinner with prime rib and all kinds of side dishes. And then we have a kind of awards time, with the CEO giving a speech and a lot of people getting recognition for things we’ve accomplished throughout the year. Then the company President hands out Christmas bonus checks to all the staff, which always puts a big smile on everyone’s faces.

After all the speeches and awards and the bonus checks, they bring out coffee and dessert carts with all kinds of fantastic cheesecakes, pies, cakes and ice creams. And they bring out a DJ and open the bar again. We dance until 1:00 am. It is a crazy fun dinner and dance and fun time with everyone from our office. I’m really looking forward to it and now I have to find a good looking woman to be my date and make me look good in front of my boss and co-workers.