Bachelorette: Part 2

Moving on to Saturday... We all checked into our rooms at The Water Club, had a low-key group dinner at Izakaya, and then headed back to the hotel to "relax and have a few drinks" before going to mur.mur. It started out nicely enough...

And quickly progressed into THIS:

Bachelorette: Part 1

This past weekend was Mel's bachelorette party. On Friday night, I made dinner for everyone at my apartment. We lit candles and sipped wine and it was all very lovely. Fast forward four hours...

And another hour after that...

Under no circumstances

Mel has been working on the playlist for her Jamaican wedding next month. She just sent me the spreadsheet so I could throw in some suggestions. My favorite part was at the end, where she included the following category:

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES-- Celebration Chicken Dance Macarena Cotton Eyed Joe Electric Slide

Dish pan hands

This e-mail was just sent to the entire office, and I pretty much love the last sentence:

Taking some steps toward going green: In lieu of using paper cups, we've given every staff member a Philadelphia magazine coffee mug. Drop it in the dishwasher and you don't have to worry about dish pan hands.

Sleep it off

I just had the following conversation with Larry, who is home sick today (and speaking in the same voice a perfectly healthy 7-year-old uses to convince his mom he can't go to school the day of the big math test):

L: I'm not feeling well today. What if I have the swine flu? A 42-year-old man in New Jersey just died of the swing flu. I'm 46.

V: I'm sure you're fine. Just sleep it off.

L: What if I fall asleep and never wake up? [bitchy little fake cough]

I have no words

Good ol' days

My best friend from childhood, Amy, is in town this week, and I couldn't be more excited. We went on a lovely girl date yesterday, having dinner in front of a fireplace and then strolling around Rittenhouse on the crisp fall night. After acting like such adults last night, we're going to spend tonight choreographing a dance routine to "Jingle Bell Rock" while wearing matching fluorescent track suits--just like the good ol' days.