This past Christmas Jay requested we make homemade pasta again - it was a real blast a few years back. I think that's also when Jay brought the fondue set up for dessert and we about made ourselves sick trying to figure out what WOULDN'T taste good covered in chocolate... Not much. About the only thing that scared us off was the old spotted dick in a can I'd gotten from a basket raffle. Anyhow...
We'd lost Michael & Nick to the great wide country of Canadia, but we still had fun with the smaller group. Here's Jay, Dave and I making three kinds/colors of pasta on the kitchen counter (THOROUGHLY washed before we started!).
I'm not sure if Randy's grinning so much because 1) the beer in front of him, 2) the big bowl of good cookies in front of him, or 3) the fact that Dave, Jay and I are doing the cooking and Randy's not!?
Your three chefs for the evening, hamming it up! (Apparently Brett was camera man all nite - you don't see him in any of the pics!) BTW - Dave and Jay are both single and loads of fun! Maybe we'll get 'em a date out of this!? ;-)
Larry looks like he's ready to say grace. He's probably just asking the higher powers WHY we made SO MUCH pasta for just the six of us (uh, that'd be my fault...) (Wow, NOT a flattering picture of me there!)
Looking forward to the next fun get together guys!
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Waitaminute! Are you borrowing my idea of pimping out my single gay friends? Maybe we need to toss all yours together with mine and see who couples up as a result. Hmmmm, wheels turning now....
:-)
If you put your friends in wigs, it'd look like my female cousins and I making pierogis.
Peter - yes, I TOTALLY stole your idea, I admit it!!! Maybe we'll host a key party for them? Wait, that implies that they were already in relationships....so maybe key party isn't quite right.
That's not a pretty picture Steven, not that I've met your female cousins!
thay are not coventionally pretty women, let's leave it at that.
Hey guys, aren't gals allowed to join in for the fun or are you exclusively handsome unavailable men? Looks like a lot of fun! Most men are not too fond of obnoxious, blunt married women like myself?? One that can throw a mean fastball and whip an organic meal for seven??
In all seriously looks like a great time and I bet the pasta was divine.
if it weren't for blunt obnoxious women, my family wouldn't exist.
A key party? Wow, shades of the 70s!
I don't think it's the blunt obnoxious thing that scares men off; I suspect it might relate to the married situation!
Happily married, i have decided men can't be friends with married women. It is some big taboo.. Something about their wives or girlfriends being paranoid.. LOL SHeesh women..;)
Most of my friends are married women, that I happen to be friends with their husbands as well is immaterial, I usually end up doing things with the wives that the husbands would rather die than do.
Weeding - you're talking to a bunch of gay guys. We can TOTALLY be friends with married women!! Heck, some of us have even shown we're allowed to touch their breasts in front of straight men - it does NOTHING for us, and just about causes the straight guys heads to spin off!!
Plus "obnoxious and blunt" is fun! So you're TOTALLY welcome here - pull up a chair! :)
So you guys would be the ones who would go shoe shopping with me?? And ones to help me find that next big must have daylily. My husband would rather stay home and clean the house than shop. I swear I have over 20 pair of flip flops alone and heels, we won't even go there.. You guys are a hoot!
Oh you don't want to go shoe shopping with me, I have expensive tastes, your children would starve to death.
My kids wouldn't starve to death we would come and mooch off of your garden Steven..
TV shopping, maybe - I have my bf for that - he prefers doing the tv shopping. (I'm more into the computer parts) And shoe shopping? Hellllll no - yes, I like buying some fun shoes, but I don't understand a woman's need for so many pairs and at such high prices!!
My best friend Michele loves showing off her fancy shoes at work....and her fancy coats/jackets (like the Pepto pink raincoat)...and let's see if I can remember this right...her fancy Kate Spade canvas purse, with pink handles and a different bright yellow sunshine design on each side? How'm I doing Michele? Did I get that right? When I need shoes - well, running shoes at least - I take Michele along for guidance and emotional support.
It is all about how the shoe makes our legs look.. I also have a thing for jeans.. I have about 18 pair in my closet right now. My daily uniform consists of jeans and a light cotton button down floral shirt and flip flops.. I can't be stylish at work, I am a Labor and Delivery Nurse and wear Navy blue scrubs.. Talk about borrrring..
Jeph-- We have a computer part graveyard in our basement, my husband is a network engineer, that loves parts like I love shoes..
See I keep hearing ominous reports out of NYC about my friend's addiction to $750 Rogan jeans and Alexander McQueen pencil skirts.. the girl has Prada boots that are worth a CAR. I suppose I'm partly to blame, I've known her since she was 15 and always encouraged her fashionista-ness
You'll have to excuse me - I'm still picking my jaw up off the floor over those prices!
I believe Michele's maybe referred to herself as a fashionista once or twice?
And Alison - you and I get to dress very similar for work! Well, minus the floral top and flip flops - but as a web designer/programmer, I get to dress preeeeetty casual! Ask Peter - while other's in HIS position in the Library have to dress it up, I work in the Library and wear shorts, t-shirts and tennis shoes! :)
Holy Freakin Cow!!! $750 for a pair of jeans... (choking on my Pepsi here).. Umm I could have a bunch of Sevins for that price..
I am pretty casual, since I am always puttering out in the garden and playing with the kids..
Oh get this: if you WASH Rogan Jeans, they'll disintegrate.
That is just plain wrong.. I guess for peeps with disposible income.. I am not one of those..
Just to put the jeans in perspective: my ticket to Sweden cost $600 round trip.
Yes, yes, terrible waste of money.
Peter: and that was in a pet carrier under Conrad's seat!
They dissolve? What're they made off? Paris Hilton's dead skin cells?!
They're like severely distressed and the denim is woven on some special loom.. it's very thought-ut destruction. New York is a city that has a visual language, most New Yorkers can suss you out in five seconds about who you are and what you make by looking at your clothes, skin and hair. The same is true for Los Angeles, but it's based more on your shoes, watch and car.
HMM... So when I get to NYC one day, they can tell all about me from what I am wearing?? YIKES.. Flip flops and jeans might put me in the "laid back" category.. They would Def. know I was a visitor from outer space.. I have a great friend and older lady who moved here from Manhatten about 5 years ago and said I would fit right in, with all the attitude I carry.. My friend who just moved here from Long Island, asked me "what do these rednecks want, they are way tooooo nice, makes me suspicious".. I laughed at her and told her she must have not heard of Southern Hospitality..
She is also Catholic and asked me where all the liquor stores were, since their weren't any by the church.. I was rolling over that one..
I was on the F train with my friend, headed into Manhattan for some sightseeing and she asked me why I hadn't brought my camera and I said "I don't want to look like a tourist." she said: "Too late, the bright blue Land's End parka is like sending up the Bat Signal." She was such a nice girl before she moved to NY.
Steven, given the seats we had, it might as well have been!
Ah, to be in business class again....
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