Step by step

Well, we outdid ourselves with this latest surprise for our friend. My friends and I like to pride ourselves on being the best liars friends can be to each other. If we weren't, we'd never be able to pull this shit off.

Enter the New Kids concert. Our friend Katie is a huge fan and mentioned that she'd want to go. For some reason, none of us thought of buying tickets before she mentioned it. (stupid, so stupid.) Because her birthday is Oct. 30, we agreed this would be the perfect surprise and even outdo the surprise birthday party we threw last year. We came up with a story to have dinner at Bar Cento because one of the girls had to "bail" early to some made up location in Tremont. She has absolutely no idea about anything and thought the concert was the next day.

Nicole predicts our birthday girl's reaction.


Katie's actual reaction. (Thanks to our server for helping out with our plan.)


For those of you who missed the madness that was inside the Q, here's a short clip of it.


Everyone was going nuts for two straight hours wearing their t-shirts circa 1990 - I can't believe they still had them! It was packed with women ages 25-40, grown women tearing up at the end and rocking out like they were eternally 12-years-old. It was so much more fun and insanity than any of us ever thought it would be.

Dear Katie, I hope you had a great time. Thank you for being easy to trick so we can pull stunts off like this. Joey loves you, too.

Love your fantastic friends,
Allison, Erin and Nicole

Duggar this

There's nothing like seeking advice from other people who matter to you. Friends, family, co-workers or stranger on the street. Hey- they matter, too! But would one really want to take relationship advice from these two?

According to their site, there is a section called "marriage tools" coming to help you through your tough times in your marriage or relationship. From where? You have been married 3 freaking days! What could you two possibly know?

Let's count how experienced you are in providing advice on relationships.
You are at the old age of 20.
You have been married for 3 days.
Um. I guess that's it.

Josh, you are barely out of puberty and probably never even uttered a good curse word in your life. Go ahead and say it, Josh.

Fuck. Shit. Balls. Say it again.

Your parents can't yell at you. You are a grown man. Start having sex like rabbits with your bride and create 21 kids. Beat out your parents' record and score more reality shows than Jon and Kate plus 8.

story time

Over the weekend, the BF and I attended a gorgeous wedding for one of his college friends. (Since I've attended double digits in weddings in the last two years, I tend to critique things because they all start to look the same after awhile. The decorations were amazing - fall scene with browns and golds that completely transformed the room. It was a great location to begin with but you get the point.) That's beside the point though.

I've only met his college girl friends a few times because most of them live outside of Ohio. However, it never ceases to amaze me the stories they share of him from back in their days at John Carroll. Here's a snippet of our conversations:

"Do you remember when Colleen walked in on you?"
"No, I think I walked in on him with that girl," Jill said.
"Do you remember when his car was stuck in the snow and none of us would help him?," Amy said. "We all just peeked through the blinds which pissed him off even more."
"He lived in the basement. I think it was his idea to move in with us."
"Didn't I blond tip your hair?"

He turned red but never really denied any of it. (I guess you can't when 4 other people have the exact same story.) It seems that they all had a great laugh, and continue to do so, at the BF's expense.

See, his last year of college he lived with four girls - all of whom I've met over the last two years. What on earth made him move in with them is beyond me? Maybe he wasn't aware that we fight, are messy, leave clothes all over and trade shoes and shirts like it's going out of style. Needless to say, they all have their favorite "BF" story and will probably share them on here now - they read the blog.

I wonder how many guys lived with girls and have lived to tell about it? Could you imagine? People like Narm or Tawwd might pull their hair out and OPENLY start wearing Secret deodorant and shaving with women's shaving cream. Maybe that's where the obsession came from?

holy hotness

Everyone has a celebrity crush. The BF's local crush is Abby Ham. And, he's obsessed with Megan Fox - seriously, who isn't at this point.

While watching reruns of America's Next Top Model on MTV, I was reminded of my crush because they were in his video. Put me in a leather bikini, slather some oil on me and I would be your video vixen, too.

Oh, where have you been? You haven't had a popular song in a few years, Enrique. Come back and sing to me. My friends and I loved Escape, Be With You and Bailamos. I know you were secretly singing them to me. If you haven't dumped Anna yet, do so and I'll lose the BF and you can sing to me in spanish.

Watch this video and you can't tell me you don't want to have sex with him. I think it's the pouty look that gets me.

Friday fodder

After making it through the wedding season to end all wedding seasons last year, this one has been pretty mild with only five I believe. Somehow, we end up with three in a span of five weeks. Can you say hello to my depleting checking account? It's gone, gone and gone.

I'm actually looking forward to all three coming up. Hopefully, all are filled with fantastic liquor/wine and desserts - screw the dinner. I just want desserts and wine. Lots of it. (Who really goes to the weddings for the food anyway?)

Other than the free liquor, what is the best part of weddings for you?

And, I love a good trainwreck. Feel free to share stories of weddings gone horribly wrong.

SATC - the release

Did you really think I wouldn't mention this?
Ta-dah! Sex and the City: The Movie is being released all over.

I can not wait. Unfortunately, I didn't purchase an advance copy although Blockbuster asked me not once, not twice but three times if I'd like to purchase it on different visits. I don't think it helped that I desperately wanted the poster hanging in the window for my office. Maybe that's what gave away my obsession with the movie.

Happy viewing.

Mind Ninjas Part II

Guys are very quick to say girls are the vicious, controlling and manipulative ones. To quote Dane Cook, we mind fuck you guys all the time

The BF will turn the big 2-9 on October 3. If you ask him, it was the day God created perfection. (Really. He says that.)

Of course, there is also something else happening that day that I might have to attend. The BF says he doesn't care if I go.

BF: "It's not big deal. Go ahead and go. Have fun."

Well this was on Saturday. So, I ask him again today to make sure he didn't change his mind and was fine with me going.

Until he decided to pull the mind fuck trick on me that girls supposedly pull, and he yanked back his blessing. Well, sort of.

BF: Allison, it's just how girls say whatever to guys. It doesn't really mean 'whatever.' It means 'I dare you to.
Me: Are you daring me to go? I won't if you don't want me to.
BF: No. I'm just saying figure it out.
Me: You don't care, right? You said this isn't a big birthday to you and you don't mind.
BF: Yes dear.
Me: What does that mean?
BF: Figure it out. Now you know how guys feel when girls expect us to read between the lines of their "whatever's and fine's." It isn't that easy, is it?

Are we really that complicated?