going whole hog: blackberry style

After a shameful week of no photo documentation and an embarrassingly obvious suggestion to use my cell phone, it still took me until Mark returned home to figure out how to transfer the photo from my Blackberry to my computer (my cell phone plan doesn't allow me to email pictures--I already thought of that). Anyway--here's the lone photo from my week: my friend Pat (a man in my ward with a catering business) serving up a whole, smoked pig at the invitation-only event he hired me to help with.

Perhaps the most amusing part of the evening came when one party go-er stood looking--awestruck--at the whole pig and asked where we ever found an eggplant that large. Now, I've never seen an eggplant of this magnitude, let alone one with ears and a snout, but then again there was an open bar, so maybe that had something to do with his skewed assessment of the serving presentation.

The best news of the weekend was that, not only did I bring home a nice wad of cash at the end of Friday's event, but also Mark received a merit-based (and completely unanticipated) large bonus during his business trip/conference! Woo hoo! Additionally, Emily sent me a text message informing me that she received a 75 cent raise that day.

All-in-all a good day on the economic home front.