Week(end) Update

The blogging gods (Blods?) have been smiling favorably upon me lately. You see, this past week, they saw fit to grant me the opportunity to meet up with not one but TWO of my favorite bloggers. As you know, I do not shut up about my adoration for the lovely Guinness Girl. We have a fantastic time whenever she's in town, so I was pleased to no end when she informed me that she was going to be in NYC for training again. Alas, J was going to a Mets game that night, so this time, I could only meet her for a quick drink. Naturally, we made the most of it. Despite traveling through Grand Central Station every weekday, I’ve never been to this adjoining lounge, which is where we decided to go. It's very old-world banker-ish (if that makes sense to anyone else but me) and has the ambiance of a Prohibition-era speakeasy.

However.

The drinks there are dangerous. From what I observed, all of them had a common theme. And if that theme could talk, it would say "Alcohol?! Gracious heavens, no! Why, there's nothing of the sort in here! We're just innocent drinks, and our delicious sweet flavors are not at all a camouflage for the fact that we contain a bathtub's worth of vodka, scotch, and rum! Hush now, drink up!" No joke. I could just tell that, had I consumed more than one, doing so would have had the unfortunate consequence of me performing my incomparable Christina Aguilera “Genie in a Bottle” dance. (Incomparable, because I've never before done it.) And then passing out, and mysteriously waking up in Nebraska. Clad in a bedazzled Celine Dion t-shirt and yellow leggings. Next to a goat named Leopold. With a copy of L. Ron Hubbard’s Dianetics at my side.

So, fortunately for all, it was just the one drink for me.

Anyway.

Guinness Girl, was, as always, hilarious, and I am continually amazed at her pretty glowiness. How? How do you do it, GG?! Also? She has the best, most fascinating stories EVAH. Seriously. Come back soon, missy!

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My sudden blogging absence was due to the fact that it was an incredibly busy and generally hectic week for me. (Stop weeping, you guys! Please! I'm back!) Imagine my utter glee, therefore, when the adorable and insanely eloquent Lawyerish e-mailed me to get together for lunch. I naturally said, “Oh hells, yes,” and we met up. The girl is brilliant and witty, but perhaps most importantly, shares my Annie obsession. I was enjoying my time with her so much that I was sad to leave, but the fact that we work mere blocks away from each other cheered me up somewhat. MERE BLOCKS. As did the fact that we made tentative plans to see this, whenever it comes out. Are you not jealous?

Due to my crazy week, I have absolutely no idea what’s going on in your lives, but I’ll catch up over the weekend this week. (Damn. Well...this weekend flew.)

I’ll cap this off with my new favorite obsession: A slideshow! (FYI: The little girl playing with Toopweets is my niece.) Oh, and Toopweets? Is going to be 1 in less than a month. Oh, my God.