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The Essentials have an Annual General Meeting (AGM), just like a corporation.  We had it earlier this week.

You might think "Blech! How boring and stuffy and businessy can you get?"

Well our AGM isn’t boring at all.

We meet at a restaurant with our manager as early in the new year as we can and talk about the last year (which was awesome) and then talk about what we’re going to do in the upcoming year or two.

Then we drink beer and snort tequila shots until they kick us out of the restaurant or one of us is the victim of yet another bogus citizen's arrest (whichever comes first).

Here were some of the other highlights.

1. Did we say that 2010 rocked? Nothing But Blue charted in Canada and hit #1 in Toronto, blah blah blah...we’ve blogged about it enough, you know the deal.
   
   
2. 2011 is going to rock because we’re going to be prepping for our 2012 album but also shooting some video for Nothing But Blue songs, and also recording and releasing some more "home studio" recordings since we got such great feedback on Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer.
   
   
3. As predicted, Janet took most of her Orecchiette Genovese Alfredo "to go" but stunned us all by correctly pronouncing "orecchiette" while ordering the dish with the slight roll of her R and everything.
   
   
4. Thom asked for bread about 4 times (at an undisclosed East Side Mario’s location) and each time, the waiter said "it’s just coming out of the oven and it will be a minute or a minute and a half" and then he finally brought it when we were finished our main courses (no joke).  He then tried to tell us that some people use the bread to scoop up the sauce from their plate and eat it.  Nice try dude - my great-grandfather invented that move.
   
   
5. And finally, Dan made a HUGE MEGA MOTHER-OF-ALL announcements: that he was going to eat even spicier foods in 2011. He’s going to put hot sauce ON his hot sauce and then just light his tongue on fire with a match for dessert.

And that pretty much sums it up.

Have a great year and we’ll be in touch (figuratively for most, physically for a select few),

Jo3