#92 - invite someone over to dinner

I made this a goal because--let's face it--my grown-up social skills are nonexistent. I would much rather organize a game night than I would a dinner. It's not like I haven't had people over for dinner before or anything, but I wasn't sure how quickly I would make friends in Florida and thought I might need the motivation to be friendly and homemakery toward strange people.

Luckily, Ricky and I made friends before I had to subject myself to such terrible things, and we had the Kendalls over for vegetarian spaghetti! It was back in November, I think, and I took a picture of the place settings and all that jazz, but I must've deleted it between then and now. You'll just have to imagine them in all their glory. (Ondriceks, if you're reading this, we used your plates!)

After dinner, we had game night...naturally.

#92 is done!

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