"I am so 5th grade right now." Me, being all giddy.

"My other son said that you called..." Heidi (Mark's mom) on a phone message to me.

"I know it's only quasi legal to call you before noon on any given day of the week..." Dice's phone message to me.

"Just a few months–that's not enough time to get annoyed with each other yet." Mom, on my cousin's new girlfriend.

"I still haven't had something sweet–I still haven't been satisfied." Mom
"I'll satisfy you." Dad. Oh dear! :-o

"Yeah, you are right, I am wrong." Grandma, to Grandpa, seeing that arguing with him is pointless.

"Hey, is this Vegas?" Ricky, on our cousin Tip's video of her trip to Rome.

"Are you starving yourself?" Uncle John, to me.
"Who me? Are you kidding?" Me, totally surprised, being a big food lover.

"Do you need a walker?" Me, to Grandma.
"No, you are my walker." Grandma

"Look at all of these people up and walking–it's only 10 o'clock. Insane." Mom, one Sunday morning.

"The best part of the night was Eve grinding with me–and the plantains." Stacy

"Vic, you are the best. Can we clone you?" Leslie R

"I will have a drink cause crutch girl can use all the help she can get." Leslie R

"Oh no Eve. Is that the infamous... I've finally seen it!" Kathi, on my quote book.

"Victor doesn't do anything half way." Kathi, after Victor was the first one to down his mojito.

"If I could, I'd get up and come over there!" Leslie, to Stacy, by the pool.

"I wanna squeeze!" Kathi, on the mojito limes.

"Should I just start crushing limes?" Stacy, once she walked into Kathi's apartment with the mojito supplies.

"Gratuitous strip scene, explosions, it's basically a music video." Clayton, on the new Charlie's Angels movie.

"You still there? If so, you better get out cause the hoodlums are coming." Dad, to me, on the Gilroy Garlic Festival.

"Ok, is it going to be bikini shots the whole way through? Because then I can't look at these at work." James on the Key West pics.

"*hugs and shim sham memories* =) c4 (aka adam lover...hehe)" Caroline's closing in an e-mail to me, using my nicknames for her.

"Boys never think they're wrong." Eric C.

"Trick me once, shame on you. Trick me twice, shame on me..." Payless Eric. I know he didn't originate the phrase, but I like it.

"Hey Sweet Thing! I had a great time with you tonight as always!" Nicki, to me. With those kind of girlfriends, who needs guys? ;-)

"Still working on the 6 word closing!!!! Should take me only another 30 minutes or so!" James on composing an E-mail to a girl.

"Wow. that's an hour before I got up." Jaimes, to me, on going to bed really late one night--er--morning

"Girls suck...xcept u." Payless Eric, to me over IM. Man that was two in one day! I get a lot of that from my guy friends lately

"If Eve had a man, he'd be in for a treat." Hope, making fun of me getting into one of our fun playful dances to "All That Jazz."

"These nuggets of wisdom just don't come back." Daniel

"Everyone returns to the mother ship." Cle, on Adobe

"Glad to hear you guys fought through the sadness brought on by our departure and kept the tradition of debauchery alive for Sunday." Jake's e-mail response to my extreme stories of what happened the night he wasn't there with us in Key West.

"Where are you? I've lost track. You've got nothing on Carmen Sandiego." Dice's text to me.

"For some lighthearted entertainment: Catherine decided to say 'Oh shit' today. We are trying to correct that." Clayton, on his 21 month old daughter.

"I just add craziness to the photo gallery!" Nicki

"I hit the jackpot before I looked–that's the way to do it, man!" Dad, on one day buying a car off of a lot he knew nothing about and looking up the reviews a few days later.

"I've enjoyed you enough–give me your sperm!" Jen, to Jose, on the timing of them having kids.

"I'm gonna find a Counting Crows fact you don't know by the end of the night–that's my goal." Guy sitting in front of us at the CC concert in San Diego who kept on asking me CC questions as each song started to play.

"I haven't made out in the pool since high school–sounds like so much fun!" Married Steph.

"Denny's, pizza, coffee, whip cream..." Stacy, rambling about possible morning food options to the cab driver on our way home our last night after he told us how early we should leave to get to the airport.

"I had fun there–I actually have memories of that place." Sarah on Irish Kevins.

"I thought you were going to get water and you came back with jello shots." Leslie, to Sarah, at Fat Tuesdays the last night we were out in Key West.

"Out of five years of mooning Mallory Square, that was the best." Jim, on our catamaran cruise the previous day.

"You guys aren't trying enough on." Jim, shopping with the girls one night.

"T-shirt, bong anyone?" Stacy, commenting on Key West shops.

"Does anyone wanna go swing or are we all just gonna sit here?" Jim

"Can you hold this? I'm gonna go swing." Jim, at Blue Heaven.

"You know what I don't like? Unflirty waiters! I don't care if they're gay or not. I pay for dinner, I want flirt!" Stacy

"Suck on that baby!" Sarah, to Stacy on mint leaves from her mojito.

"I think we should all have matching body parts." Leslie, to Sarah

"I think there should be condoms in the back of the journal." Stacy, on the Key West journal they didn't have this year.

"I honestly think they put the team together for women." Leslie on the Oakland A's.
"It's the hottest team we've ever seen." Stacy

"I always end up with the jackass." Leslie, on the Luna Park plastic drink animals.

"Tell me if I poke you with the poky thing." Stacy, to Leslie, on aloe.

"You are the most resourceful guy I've ever met." Me, to Jim, who spotted an Aloe plant and tore off a bit when Leslie was commenting about how her sunburn was bothering her.

"How are you, a guy playing ping pong, gonna drink a chocolate martini?" Stacy, to Jim.

"Jim ditches the four chicks to play ping pong with the kids." Sarah, while we were waiting for a table for dinner.

"We'll just stop drinkin at 3 instead of 4." Stacy, on taking me to the airport at 5am.

"It's 5:30pm and I'm hammered–super!" Sarah

"I try not to wear bras on vacation." Shannon

"My wife and I are on our honeymoon and she's not feeling too well so I was wondering if we could change the flight two another without a penalty." Jim, trying to help Shannon be able to stay in Key West with us another day.

"Have you worn that swimsuit yet?" Me, to Stacy
"Yes, it's my night suit. This is the one that hit you on the head." Stacy

"I'll tell then where I went. I won't tell them what I did." Teacher Sarah, on telling her kids what she did this summer.
"I think you need to tell them that the Vikings still roam the South Seas." Jake, referencing his infamous hat.

"Instead of drinking all day, can we eat all day instead?" Leslie, planning our last day in Key West.

"I almost passed out from plunging so much." Stacy

"Like my knee pads?" Leslie, with big blue stickers on either knee.

"Sarah was brought home without pants." Stacy

"Location, location, location." Matt

"I think this is the part where you say something nice so I'm not upset with you." Me, to Matt
"I think this is that part where I shut up and dance and look cute." Matt with not a bad plan B.

"Any girl who would take my name is awesome." Bill Spanks, on his new wife Meg.

"I like playing hard to get on the dance floor." Matt

"I'm gettin my mojo back." Matt, out dancin.

"I can't believe how lame this place is tonight." Meg, at Garden of Eden before all of our friends showed up.

"Matt? Who's Matt? Oh, that's his name!?" Bill, who has been talking to him all weekend.

"It's not gonna lick itself!" Stacy

"Is it flashing time yet?" Lisa, on our sunset catamaran cruise on the way back in.

"I like your habit of recording things. RJS Key West '03." Jake's writings in my quotes page. I was expecting a KIT or something yearbook like.

"I rouged my knees." Stacy, playing off of our "All that Jazz" song we were singing a lot.

"Bosom buddies!" Me, to a few of my new girl friends I made the first night out.

"Whose thong is in your purse?" Leslie, not recognizing my camera cover string at first.

"I'm a button pusher and I'm done." Jake

"Elvira!" Jake, to me
"Will you stop it already?" Leslie, still defending my honor the next day.

"Put it away!" Jake, on my quotes book

"It's kinda fun the stupid things we say that we can read the next day." Leslie, on my quotes.

"I love the Eve–I hate the evidence." Jake, on my quotes.

"I think I'm gonna bring my purse." Stacy
"Yeah, I think that's a good idea cause we need more drama." Leslie, commenting on Stacy's recent track record of losing her wallet.

"Look at this mosquito bite!" Me, on one on my butt.
"Are you sure it was a mosquito?" Leslie

"Did you just tell yourself to shut up?" Me, to Leslie
"Yes, somebody has to." Leslie

"I can't drink now or I won't be able to survive tonight." Leslie, at the start of our day.
"I need to start now." Stacy

"You have pretty lips." Classic Leslie on the trip.

"Can somebody dress me?" Leslie, in the morning.

"Oooohhh–Pop Tarts!" Me, on the Pop Tarts and Coffee Sarah brought us one morning.

"Do you have blue ovaries?" Stacy

"It's not gonna suck itself!" Matt's contribution to Bill's idea to come up with a worst pick up lines book.

"Try it on, you conservative bitch!" Leslie, to Sarah, on one of her skirts.

"They say they aren't leavin til they see me naked!" Jake yelling across the pool, about us female Key West newcomers.

"I'm good at spotting dead people." One of the friends we met in Key West, during a story.

"I'm gonna turn red and start sweating soon–a normal state for me." Leslie, blowing up the bright pink pool raft.
"You volunteered Miss Blowy." Stacy, to Leslie.

"I wanna sleep in the drawer." Stacy, on the large drawer in our hotel room in Key West.

"I'm going through withdrawals." Stacy
"Coffee or alcohol? Or food?" Leslie
"Vodka." Stacy

"I'm not making you guys nauseous dancin while I'm drivin am I?" Leslie, driving on the way to Key West groovin to the 80s tunes.

"I like to smell like a baby's butt–clean or dirty." Leslie, using Purell.

"Bait and tackle–isn't that what boys try to do to us?" Me, commenting on a sign we saw at Holiday Isle.

"It's good you turned off the radio and started thinkin." Sarah, while Leslie was drivin.

"This is what you chose?" Sarah, to Leslie, on surfing radio channels on our drive from Miami to Key West.

"Get out of my dreams and into my car." Music we heard coming from our hotel in Miami while we were loading up our rental car to leave.

"I'm in love with that meat." Leslie, on her Cuban meal of ropa vieja in Miami the night before.

"Don't ever let me thrust in public again." Stacy, on her silliness in our hotel lobby the night before.

"I think I'm gonna call downstairs and ask for a lumpier pillow." Stacy, in Miami

"We just bbq'd. We've decided that we hate women." Yed's text message from home.

"I expected umbrellas and more bells and whistles in the drinks." Leslie, on our FL vacation.

"Any drinks with pink flamingos in them? Say hi to Crockett + Tubbs 4 me." James' text message to me while we were in FL.

"U r a fancy gal–doing IM on your phone from the beach." Leslie Mice's text message to me

"Have fun in Floooorrrida!" Dad's text message to me.

"We don't have any lightbulbs." Hotel staff in Miami looking at our dark closet.

"Sorry I couldn't get us a pool, but I did get the right day." Stacy, on booking our Miami hotel.

"Do you feel like a princess cause we all gave you our drinks?" Stacy, to Leslie, at the misty bar we visited for happy hour in Miami.
"That or the biggest lush." Leslie

"It's called Clinique–my minibar." Stacy, on her storing her mini bottles in a Clinique makeup bag.

"Cheers for pushing a button!" Leslie, in the elevator in our hotel.

"I'm from Baltimore." Sarah, telling us a bit about herself on the first day of our trip.
"Was it raining in Baltimore?" Me, with my Counting Crows reference.

"I'll have to sample a lot of drinks to see what my Florida beverage of choice is." Leslie, as soon as we got to Miami and sat down for a drink.

"It's refreshing–lemon water." Stacy, on putting Bacardi Limon in her Dasani bottle of water on our drive to Miami.

"We didn't worry about bringing cameras cause we knew you would be here." Stacy, to me.

"Maybe I'll remember the date next time." Leslie, on a little confusion on the rental car reservation in Ft. Lauderdale.

"This is the earliest I've had a drink without still being out from the night before." Me, at 6:30am in the Chicago airport on a layover spiking my McDonalds orange juice with a baby bottle of pineapple run Stacy gave me.

"It just came our wrong–as most things that come out of my mouth do." Leslie

"I can fall asleep on any form of transportation." Stacy when we met up in Chicago after our red eye the night before.

"Ok, give us the details. And if you act it out, you get bonus points." Loeby, to Eric, asking about his date.

"I don't even know him and I miss him." Loeby, about James.

"Have fun! Don't get corrupted!" Mark's final words to me before I left for my Key West trip.

"Thank God for your e-mails Eve! I feel like I can live vicariously through you!" Malts, on my Ofoto updates.

"Your trip looked insane!! Jealous. You guys did SO many cool things. I want to go to NYC with you!" Steph, the girl who on her last trip to New York hung out with Alyssa Milano and super models in a trendy bar.

"Thanks for the rips. Ya lit'l ripper. Rip it up. Jack the ripper. Ripley's Believe it or not. Rip tide. Rip…I'm all out!" Julie

"I've come to realize I got fat and lost my rhythm." Julie, on taking her first dance class in a while.

"When I blow my wad, I blow it big! Mark, on making a few big purchases.

"I like the Central Park part." Me, on our ride to the airport.
"It's like a carriage ride, but four wheels instead of four feet." Kelly

"It was almost like hearing myself just now and I loved it." Kelly, on one of Christie's comments.

"Maybe some of you didn't hear the barf fest cause they were too busy with the mac fest." Kelly

"We had multiple festivals this weekend: Mac Fest, Barf Fest, Grunge Fest..." Kelly, on our New York trip.

"We're our own bellgirls." Me, on us pushing our own bag cart out the door at the W Hotel in Times Square.

"I can't find where we live and I haven't even had a drink." Kel, one afternoon.
Maybe we need a drink to find it." Christie

"All this shadiness makes me crave Tylenol." Kelly

"We saved the shadefest for the last day." Kelly

"Cartwheel fest 2003!" Us doing cartwheels very late at night at a park where we could see the Statue of Liberty.

"No worries, we r drunk home might fun!" Nicki's drunken off of wine text message one day. ;-)

"I'm just happy walking around with three hot chicks in the big city." Mike, on our shopping day.

"Can you imagine havin a skateboard here? Do you see all the things you can grind?" Kel, when we were somewhere in New York.

"I want a party in my mouth." Christie, referencing the writing on some menu.

"We can tell my brain is working again." Kel, when she started to talked animatedly again.

"Doesn't that make you feel better knowing you can still look cute when you feel horrible?" Me, to Kelly when she was hungover one day.

"I have my red shoes, blue skirt, and white legs." Christie, on the 4th of July.

"They're sitting in our booth!" Mike, when we were watching Seinfeld on TV after we visited the Seinfeld diner.

"Looks like your key lime martini last night." Christie, to me, on a lake in Central Park.

"Did anyone else's pillow headboard fall on them?" Mike, in our trendy New York hotel.

"Oh no! That means I missed Regis and Kelly!" Kelly, on waking up at 1:45pm in New York.

"Oh, no! Are you building the love wall? Mark would be thrilled." Kelly, to me, in our hotel room.

"We got the teacher and the unemployed one of the group, so we'll see how it goes." Kel

"You're such a girl." Mike, to me.
"Yes, I am–never claimed to be anything else." Me

"That's the most meat I've eaten in my whole entire life." Kelly, ordering a steak for dinner one night.

"I've been around–I've lived on two coasts and went to school in the middle." Mike

"Eve, I don't like the way you make me feel. Like I wake up and just want to eat all the time." Kelly

"Look–it's a New York City policeman!" Me
"Looks just like the ones in NYPD Blue." Kelly

"I like driving in New York cause it's like playing pole position." Boston Mike