25 things for your cocktail party tonight

Friends are coming for cocktails tonight. Easy - right? Wrong.

25 things to have on hand:

1. wasabi peas or other nibbles
2. ice ice and more ice
3. cocktail serviettes
4. coasters
5. vintage kitsch serving bowls
6. tea lights
7. ice bucket
8. soda, tonic, juice (cranberry, orange, tomato)
   
9. cocktail straws
10. rock glasses
11. extra toilet paper
12. scotch, rye, rum, vodka, gin, dry and sweet vermouth, cognac
    
13. french champagne flutes
14. clean hand towels
15. bottle opener
16. beer
17. burgundy glasses
18. corkscrew
19. bubbly
    
20. organized front closet with empty hangers
21. two bottles of both white and red wine
    
22. nutcracker service with nuts
    
23. proper beer glasses
    
24. smoking jacket, hostess gown or reasonable facsimile - after all, it is cocktails
25. appropriate music