Today With Patty – Nov. 1, 2006

by Patty

Halloween was lots of fun for me this year. Last night my husband and I went to “Halloween hell” in our neighborhood, where all the residents get together to eat hot dogs and have cocktails. I happen to love hot dogs and of course cocktails. Very fun. Our neighborhood had very few kids trick or treating, as most families have their children in college. However, one new family had a little girl named Bethany who was 19 months old. She was dressed in a Virginia Tech outfit, for which her parents received much grief for not having her wear Carolina Blue.

I, of course, bought way too much candy, so anyone who came around received a ton of it from me. Um, I had some of it too. Now the leftovers will go to the office, where I will unleash the hounds on it. With the wine from “Halloween hell” and the chocolates I sampled, it made me fall asleep at 9 o’clock last night. So I had some sweet dreams.

I am happy to say that no one stood me up for lunch today. I met with a potential new client that is going to be huge if it happens. We had lunch at 115 Midtowne, and there were 10 of us at this meeting. I listened to the waiter describe the specials, and one was for a meatloaf with mashed sweet potatoes. I really, really wanted it. But as he took orders from the other nine people at the table, all of them ordered salads. Of course I had to eat salad too. The salad was very good, with pine nuts and cherries. But it was not meatloaf with mashed sweet potatoes!

Steve Wissink, editor of North Carolina magazine, came in today. He is now our favorite. To look at him, he just appears to be a normal editorial guy. Yet when you get to know him, you realize he is a maniac. He skydives and rides a Harley Davidson. He is a closet wild man.

I am off now to see the new building for SEPI Engineering. I will tell you more about that in tomorrow’s entry.

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