How To Be The Perfect Guest - Showing Up For A Party

     "Ken is the best guest.  He arrives happy and lights up a room.   He seems genuinely grateful to be in your home and circulates easily through a crowd--greeting friends and introducing himself to strangers.  He's intuitive and can spot a newcomer and draws them in."  So says an appreciative host, for whom I am appreciative, too.  I've been told things like that for years.

     A party definitely takes on the personality of the host.  Whether stress or ebullience, the host's energy permeates the occasion's ambiance.  If you think that entertaining is stressful, you're sadly wrong... and probably ill-prepared.  Similarly, choosing the best guests is important; their energy influences the mood.  Always an excellent guest, I apply my "spark plug" good energy to keeping things pleasant--and occasionally applying it to sweeten a lull in the milieu.  It's what a good guest should do, and it "works like a charm".

From the moment the first guest walks in until the last candle is blown out, consider it it a performance-art what you ought to enjoy--like painting a canvas or reciting amorous poetry.  

Creative generosity mixed with flexibility.  Control freaks have the most wretched parties.

A confident host/hostess and a lovely gathering of people are things of beauty!

Refer to my 4/15/14 entry about social abilities, and maybe you'll take away some ideas/inspiration...
http://halfwindsorfullthrottle.blogspot.com/2014/04/dinner-with-ken.html