Cheese Hangover

Today I am feeling the effects of ingesting large amounts of cheese fondue at Sarah and Scott's kick-ass fondue party last night. After the cheese course, there was our contribution of fried fish balls, which sounds gross but was actually really good -- like crab cakes but with smoked mackerel -- and everyone cooks their own in the fondue pot which is filled with hot vegetable oil. And then we moved into the chocolate course, which had apples, strawberries, bananas, marshmallows, and angel food cake to dip in it. Along with swigs of cherry brandy and several glasses of wine, a rowdy game of 'catch phrase,' bad jokes about fish balls, and marshall's gorgeously horrific polyester shirt, the evening was a lovely way to start off the new year. Now excuse me while I go take a nap...