A break

Sorry peeps, life is just too busy right now...will try to blog sometime next week!

Paper fetching

Our local paper has been steadily shrinking over the last few years. Weekday editions are no more than 2-3 sections and the Sunday paper is depressingly thin. This all means the Anch. Daily News is really pushing subscriptions via neighborhood solicitations.

We signed up last month for a 10-week stint and guess who LOVES going out to fetch the paper every morning? It may help that it is usually wrapped in an orange plastic sleeve and looks remarkably like Drift's orange retreiving dummies...

Back to blogging

February is always a busy month at work and I'm up to my eyeballs in Heart Month events. Three seminars and a health fair are out of the way, but we still have 4 remaining seminars plus a symphony concert sponsorship/marketing tie-in. So I'll be volunteering at the symphony this Saturday night, which is not so bad because we also get to enjoy the concert for free.

This week is also girls' craft night (Wednesday) and book club (Thursday). Sometime this week I will continue my search for the right shade of green tissue paper. I need to start on a wedding craft that will go along with the ceramic guest favors that my sister and her boyfriend have so generously begun creating for the big day.

D has found two of these dog booties out on the trails somewhere, so we drive Drift crazy by making him wear them around the house. The dog acts like we wrapped his feet in styrofoam! It's pretty entertaining for us to see him high-stepping around the house like a Lippezaner pony!

Bachelorette party

My friend Sandra's bachelorette party was a rocking good time: burlesque lessons (complete with feather boas and elbow-length gloves), an "exotic dancer" at Bernie's and a party bus that shuffled 18 of us from bar to bar on Saturday night for a scavenger hunt of sorts.

Our bachelorette - she weighs all of 115 pounds so I'm not surprised she got buzzed pretty fast.

There was another bachelorette party upstairs at Bernie's so we were able to see this "cop" put on a show for the other bride-to-be. I'm not going to post any of the other photos of him!

Our party bus was pretty great -- drove us all around town and there was no waiting in line outside at any bar or cover charge for us.

Me, Carrie and Cindy. This may have been at the Anchor downtown. Those feather boas gave us all pink necks -- the dye rubbed off on our skin!

Sadly, Sandra did not make it to the end of the night -- she imbibed one too many cocktails and went home at 1 a.m.! She was fine the next afternoon though, and has landed in Hawaii by now for her destination wedding. D and I had talked about attending but we have too many things going on right now and are trying to save for our own wedding. I'm trying not to think of sandy beaches and warm weather right now!