Tina smiled, "Yeah, it was a great party wasn’t it?  Everybody’s either called or dropped by to thank us for inviting them, too!"

"Who spun the music, by the way?," Liz asked. "That house was rocking, girl! Julie showed me moves that I did not know I could make! My sides and back were aching well into the next day…"

"Oh, I’m sure you weren’t complaining that much," Tina laughed, as they both remembered the hilarious scene during which Julie was teaching a bunch of them dance-slash-exercise moves, and Liz, Peggy Peabody and her friends had struggled, gamely, to keep up with Julie’s energetic moves.

"A friend of ours is a DJ back in LA and she sent us her iTouch with sets of playlists programmed into it for the party. All I had to do was plug it into our system," Tina explained.

"Well it was awesome… everything in the party was awesome!," Liz responded.

"By the way… the art around your house is really quite exceptional!  The paintings are so well lit, and the sculpture scattered around, like the few around the open-space area, and the ones up in the terrace," she added, "and especially those sitting in niches along the walls that looked like the spaces were cut especially for the sculpture… just fantastic. When we were walking around the house, I think it was Shane giving us a tour?  Anyway, we didn’t know if we were in a museum or gallery… Or a house!"

Tina nodded, "Yeah, all that art, hanging of the paintings, building the special niches around the house — they’re core aspects of how we wanted the house to come out. We were hoping they’d be expressive of who we are… what, how we consider the world, etc."

Liz was still shaking her head, "I was really struck, Tina.  And thinking, wow! all that must be worth a pretty penny, huh? I mean, I don’t know much about art, but the few paintings I’ve gotten, on the advice of some gallery-types, altogether cost me the equivalent of a downtown apartment, if I had to guess."

Tina didn’t immediately respond, so Liz continued, "and by the look of all the great art you have… it’s likely one or both of you know what you’re doing there, huh?"