Couch straddling

My cats are big. I know this. But sometimes I forget just how big they are. Until I see one of them straddling the arm of the couch.

Fight party and mai tais

Saturday was about working out plans to go to the EBR Fight Party with Manfu and friends. Lots of back and forth, rumors of the party being cancelled (or not). Finally it just didn't work out :(

Last night I met Traci and her new beau Johnny for dinner at Lo Coco followed up with drinks at Kona Club. Had a great time and really enjoyed meeting Johnny - he's a keeper.

Quote of the week (6.19)

This week's winner: Elsie (again?!) with "her hair smells like a hand job?!".

We (Elsie, Loraine and I) were at Godspeed on Wednesday night to see Manfu go-go dance and drink $1.50 cans of Olympia (heaven!).

Two guys sitting next to us at the bar start chatting with us. One says he likes the way my hair smells (aw...). He smells Loraine's hair and says "Smells like a head shop". Loraine misunderstands him and says "My hair smells like a head chop?!". Elsie further misunderstands and says "Did you say her hair smells like a hand job?!".

Carry? OK!

Monday night was spent at Encore karaoke lounge. That's right. Monday night karaoke. Because that's how I roll (well, not really, but you know...).

I was on the couch around 9 PM on Monday night. Painting my toenails and watching Intervention (no lie) when I get a call from Starla and Manfu saying they're going to the city for karaoke. How could I resist?

The girls are clearly pros (no, not like that). Their karaoke skills were strong. For reals. Me? I'm sure it's no surprise to hear I tried to bust out a couple of old country hits. Jolene was a total bust (the background music was all disco-y) but Delta Dawn was better.

Good times. Karaoke times...

Quote of the week (6.12)

This week's winner is: Elsie.

Yesterday we were in the car when we started thinking about how long we've known each other (seven or eight years?). I said I'd look up my GCC start date so we could find out exactly when we met and celebrate our anniversary going forward.

Elsie says "I celebrate you every day". Har!! And it's only funny because it's true ;)

Greyhounds -> grey morning

Cafe van Kleef is my new favorite place. Seriously. I'm forever grateful to Heidi for telling me about this place.

After a handful of thwarted attempts to visit it finally happened on Tuesday night. Ilana, Matt and I sipped on the most delicious greyhounds on the face of the earth. I'm talking about half a fresh grapefruit squeezed into your drink. With an enormous grapefruit wedge as garnish. No risk of scurvy here, folks...

Quote of the week

I'm hereby launching a new segment on the blog and calling it "Quote of the Week". I realize it's likely not as funny in the retelling but I still think it's funny. And, yeah, well, that's what matters.

You ho friends of mine are going to have to step up your game. Everything that you say in my presence is now in a competish for "Quote of the Week". Enjoy!

This entry is actually going to be from last week. And I don't have just one quote but two.

1. "Remedial shimmy"
Ilana was telling me about some dance performance in college where they were all required to shimmy. Her shimmy skills weren't up to par so her "friends" forced her to take an intensive "remedial shimmy" class.

2. email from Heidi
I had a really funny experience today with his lady on tech support...
here is how the conversation went:

Heidi: "I have this really NAUGHTY computer that likes to go down on me..."

and then I heard what I was saying and almost had to hang up the phone.