Hey Everyone!

I'm sure you all remember Paige's awesome/sleepy birthday last year, which we tagged as Paige's Faux-Birthday.

http://fabulouslydirtpoor.blogspot.com/2009/12/happy-birthday-paige-today-may-or-may.html

Well we are having another faux-birthday for her this year!
If you didn't receive that invite, here it is! Although this doesn't necessarily mean you are invited. I mean, we love people that give us the time of day but...well sure, come over and bring some gin or Lambrusco. So here is the invite:

Hello Ladies!!!!

Our deer friend Paige is will be turning 25 on December 27th!! This obviously needs to be celebrated because halfway to fifty if definitely a milestone. Paige has always said she wanted to spend this day with a bottle of champagne alone under a cozy blanket with a few Ambien samples. Well too bad Paige!
Here is the plan for Paige’s second annual faux birthday:

December 18th
5:00: Paige and I discussed last night ordering Pizza Hut’s Cheesy Bites pizza for dins(we really just want to know how to eat it when all of the cheesy bites are gone). Everyone girlpiles on the couch to watch this: http://www.mylifetime.com/movies/christmas-proposal
All girls do their nails and Paige gets to start drinking.
7:00 Various ladies get naked to shower, we may have to do this in groups if we have too many people (this is fine, really). People blow dry their hair and try on various sequined outfits. Concealer and sunless tanner is borrowed, all while listening to catchy upbeat music from the 90’s. Everyone joins in drinking with Paige.
9:00: Humans of the opposite sex arrive and they get to join in drinking. Some cake may be involved.


Some gifts may be involved. Emily signs “Happy Birthday” by herself while being the top of a human pyramid. Applause ensues.
10:30 Shots shots shots shots shots!
11:00ish Paige gets blindfolded
11:09ish Everyone gets in Evelyn brand cars. Chrissy sits in the front of one and demands some Top 40. Christina Aguilera's “Dirty” will probably come on.
11:30 We arrive at the bar and Paige won’t be blindfolded anymore and all is fun and well and we have a great night.

So? What do we think? Yes?
How great will it be to blindfold Paige while she is drunk?!

See you then babies!

Xoxo,
Holly

Our First Post About Fatal Animal Attacks

A few days ago, after much heated discussion (emailing at "work") about Halloween and all things related (there are many) we decided we need to recognize the effort we put into this particular holiday.

Similar to favorite Christian holidays, such as Easter and Christmas, this non-denominational holiday has a number of components involved leading up to October 31st. Right? What would Halloween be without a night of pumpkin carving and rum drinking (knife safety at its best, obviously). Or without hours upon hours of awkward, slightly coercive emails making suggestions (threats?) about what we will and will not dress up as. So we decided, much like the 12 days of Christmas, that we would create a nice little Halloween countdown.

I procrastinated (okay, procrastinating doing blog writing on top of procrastinating"working" is pretty serious...) and decided if I was going to double procrastinate I should at least be on CNN instead of looking at fashiontoast or something. So I procrastinated (third times a charm) reading articles about Afghanistan and instead immediately clicked on "Ice Skating Bear Kills Russian Circus Hand". Who wouldn't? The irony!
So instead of a festive Halloween countdown, I think we need to pay tribute to this hell of a story, as well as the events that followed.

Please click on the CNN link and read this. It's a little graphic, a little sad, and also helps explain why the Russians put so many poor monkeys on the moon.

After reading this article I immediately emailed to Paige, asking her if she thought it was weird that this story made me think of her immediately.

This is how Paige replied:

hell no that's not weird, of course i love that. here are some pictures of skating bears and other things i love

This is pretty great. But wait it get's better:

Email from Paige:

what do you think the demographic is for people who google "Unicorn City"?

This a good question. I suppose if you were to average out the age's, Paige's ripe 23 would up the average...although dare we include the ages of Dungeons and Dragons fans?

And then this came into my work inbox from Paige's work outbox:

To which I replied:

How badly do you want to be that man? You would have it all. A patriotic unicorn lover, a great tan, AND an authentic-looking pina colada...

About 12 emails later we moved on from rebellious skating bears and pictures of what is probably a man/unicorn honeymoon. Quite the frisky Friday. And it's just the start of the weekend.

We want to wish everyone a great weekend-before-Halloween-weekend. Watch the spiked cider while pumpkin carving. Call us if you find It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown on television this week. May your costume searching, face paint practicing, and re-buying-Halloween-candy-because-you-already-ate-the-KitKats-for-trick-or-treaters be filled with warmth and joy.

P.S. Please, send us tips about other fatal animal attacks so we can all find out.

P.S. Our roommate Kristy just informed me via BBM that she is watching Aquamarine starring JoJo. We had to include the link to the trailer.

Forever Your Girl,

Holly