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"Why did they make it taste like roses?" Steph, on a dessert we had.
"I feel like I'm eatin my grandmothers bathroom." Hope
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"Are your family trips always like this?" Me
"It gets better." Ricky
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"You met the chef last night." Me, about our French Laundry dinner.
"It's not that exciting today." Ro
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"If it's upscale then it's ok." Ro, on her brother not eating mayonnaise, but eating aioli.
"You so want a cigar right now." Me to Sug while he was staring out on vineyards at one of the wineries.
"How did you know?" Sug
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"I'm ready for the bull." Nicole, at Old Pro for the agency post-holiday party.
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"Why are you acting so drunk? Me, to Mike
"Cause I'm drunk." Mike
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"It's the night of Todd and I singing gay boy songs." Mike, when Todd and LesliE were over playing karaoke games.
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"I want to come to your house and play this game every day." Leslie, SingStar.
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"My wine goes with any cheese." Heidi, on my wine and cheese pairings set up at my party.
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"Pretty good for a Tuesday night and I've been up since 5am." Yed, on a 4 bottle wine night for the 3 of us. Hey, it was a very rough day.
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"We're not dead inside. Sunnyvale parties hard sunny delight." Loopy Mike
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"I don't know when I'm gonna have my next one but a benders not bad." Yed
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"We've had too much wine to think too hard." Yed
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"It's good to see that BlueMountain has not lost their best customer." Kevin, to me.
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"I like teaching people how to do stuff." Me
"I like teaching people when I don't even know it myself." Dad
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"She's not laughing at you cause it's funny, she's laughing at you cause you're stupid." Me, to Dad.
"I don't care--I'll take whatever laugh I can get." Dad
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"Not superficial, wears a calculator watch." James, about a new girl he likes.
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"That's why I love you guys--fellow twisted individuals. I don't feel alone in the world." David, on our xmas gifts
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"We having shabu shabu tonight?" DJ, about my family Xmas.
"Yeah." Me
"Yummy!" DJ
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"Is that what you're wearing to Xmas?" Me
"Yeah. Is that not ok?" Mike
"Well it's not very Xmasy." Me
"It's footbally and you like football." Mike's logic
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"Ooh they have a steak melt now. Yummy." Me, passing a Jack in the Box ad.
"Sounds yummy but if it's yummy or not I don't know." Dad
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"This is the ultimate in practicality." DJ, on the box of boxes of kleenex my parents gave him for Xmas, knowing he liked practical gifts.
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"Where did you get this?" Dad, on his gift of socks.
"From your closet." Mom and our family's weird gifting humor.
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"How many years have you been marred to me? It's horrendous! First moo of the day." Dad, on some clothes Mom got him for Xmas he didn't like.
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"Oh Benjamin--my favorite!" Mike, on getting a $100 bill for Xmas.
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"What are you gonna do on Xmas?" Me, to Dad, since we had our family Xmas a few days early.
"Look for last minute flights to Hawaii." Dad
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"I slept. It felt good." Mike, on the plane ride.
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"What are you most looking forward to?" Me, to Mike, on our Xmas trip to the Carolinas.
"The food." Mike
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"Had Chick-fil-a yet?" Yed, just after we got to Carolina.
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"Can we say we got Nana stoned on Xmas?" Mike's cousin Calvin's comic relif moment after a big ceremony Nana's 80th birthday where everyone gave her a stone heart and said something they loved about her. I was worried they were going to run out of Kleenex. :-O
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"Gobble gobble boom!" Mike's hunter dad to his grandson about a turkey.
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"The world could be falling apart and she'd still be smiling. I'd be trying to find glue to put all the pieces back together." Pop pop, about always positive Nana.
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"Made 8 dozen cookies last night. Sort of champagne inspired." Matt, on Xmas Eve.
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"What flavor of wine do you like?" Marc's text to Mike.
"Flavor? Tell him grape." Me
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"Wine makes everything better." Nicki
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"A lot of raspberries give their life for that bottle of chambord." Mike's Dad
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"Are you going to be able to drinky drink and play GH?" Marc's concerns when I told him I had a cold on the way to visit him.
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"I'm thirsty. I need beer." Marc
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"I like to think I'm living life the right way, I do some things with reckless abandon because they make me happy. If I crave lobster, I get it and won't care if it's too expensive. I generally help and respect people..." Part of James' evaluating himself text.
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"Now you can say you've hung out in Greenville, I mean Ashville, wherever we are." Loopy Mike
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"I like Greenville. I'm more of a yuppy than a hippie." Marc
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"I am reading. Very different." Yed, one night over Xmas break.
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"I have to start cooking or at least heating things up." Marc
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"I feel like we've just been here. Oh it's cause we have." Me, in the same section of the airport we arrived in a few days before.
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"Getting you some v water and 2 zins... 2 zins are for me." Yed
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"I don't like too many choices--I get confused." Ronnie, at the Burger Bar.
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"I can't wait to get drunk and eat hot dogs." Ro, in Vegas.
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"You're such a cute couple." Ro, joking about Cridge and Joy.
"It's not me, it's her. She makes me shine." Sappy Cridge
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"We'd be the better version of Yed." Ro, on if she lived close to us.
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"I'm kind of ready for my hot dog now." Ro. Super sad news is the hot dog place we were all looking forward to wasn't open yet! :-O
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"Miss U MADLY!!! Need to drink wit chu... I hope I'm interrupting something very important." Matt's silly texts.
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"I'm gonna grab your butt later just so you know." Ro
"That's ok--there's plenty to go around." Mike
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"It's 2008 in Jerusalem." Matt, on 3pm on NYE.
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"Drink more, you'll like me more." DJ, to me.
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