Happy Birthday Siobhan and Meredith!

On Labor Day, Ari organized a surprise party for Meredith's birthday. It was awesome and, even though she had just gotten off a plane, we partied pretty hard for 31 year olds on a school night.

And on Thursday we continued to party as we celebrated Siobhan's 30th Birthday with an amazing dinner at Rye!!!!

Colleen & Kenny Wedding Festivities Begin!

This weekend was one of the best times EVER. Not only was it my birthday, but this weekend we also celebrated Colleen and Kenny's wedding shower and on Saturday night the girls took Colleen out for her bachelorette party!

Andy + Maria

Margot + Matt

Brooke thinks to herself, "What is marriage?".

Meredith made this and it was goooood.

Pre-bachelorette party I spent a couple hours indulging myself in honor of my birthday.

Mmmmmm....Peter Pan Donuts.

Abe got me a bird house for my birthday!

Piper made me this for my birthday breakfast!

I can't really show photos from the bachelorette party.  Not because we did anything bad, but because we were a pack of feral dogs and I don't think we need the world to see us in feral dog mode fully accessorized in bachelorette party supplies.  Let me just say that I love my friends and I can't believe how lucky we are to have each other.  We started off real classy with a wine tasting at Bottle Rocket and then moved downtown to Biny for several hours of karaoke, and then ended the night at Enid's in Greenpoint.

It wouldn't be a birthday if I didn't end up with dessert on my face.

We Love a Gala

Last night I went to the LOVE Benefit,  WET Productions' annual gala.  It was AWESOME.  I don't know what was my favorite part...the space (Angel Orensanz Foundation), the food, the short plays, or all the amazing people in the room.  Sasha and Victoria know how to throw an amazing party.  (And lots of love to Sasha who has a baby on the way any day now!)

Sasha and Victoria sit on stage as Nora Ephron presents and award to Linda Obst

Oh, I know what was my favorite part!  Taking photos in front of the step & repeat and pretending that we're Real Housewives of NYC.

Piper and her mom looking fabulous.

Colleen & Piper acting casual

Giving Jill Zarin, Bethenny Frankel & Kelly Bensimon a run for their money.

Happy Birthday, Brooke!

Since Brooke was in Amsterdam for her birthday, we had to celebrate with her a week later with dinner at Alexandria in the West Village.



Brooke's actual birthday is on New Year's Day so we had to bust out the champagne.

Upper Weird Side

Abe is back from Olympia! We celebrated with a random night on the Upper West Side (I don't know, it just happened).

I bought a cute new Fruit Treet quilt by Alexander Girard from Urban Outfitters on sale from $148 down to $69.00 and then an additional 50% off - holla! (do the kids still say holla?) so $35!!



Saw other weird things on 72nd St...

Ok, so, you have $25...are you going to practice your pranayama breathing, or are you going to double down on Dutchess Sweet Baby Trillion?



Hmmm, let's just call it a night and have some jerk General Ttso with black beans and rice, ok?

NYC Marathon 2009

The NYC Marathon was today - my favorite NY day of the year. Having it the day after Halloween was a little tough in the morning, but luckily Colleen and I started walking from Greenpoint to Williamsburg just in time to catch the pro runners and the wheelchair competitors. We walked all the way to N. 8th and parked ourselves for a couple hours and cheered on the runners.

Colleen's brother-in-law, Harry, was running in the race. We spotted him, screamed his name, and jumped up and down. He was able to maneuver across the street to come say a quick hello.

After all that exhausting marathon-watching we met up with Brian at Juliette and had an amazing brunch.

Congrats to Preeya and Her Fawn

Last night was the Gauge opening at ArtJail. Preeya's little fawn was displayed in the center of the room. I think Colleen said it best when she said "That deer would be so happy right now if it knew about this."



Preeya found the skeleton pieces while a bunch of us were in upstate NY for a weekend. While on a hike we spotted the skull and Preeya proceeded to dig up every last piece. The poor little deer died under a tree and you can imagine how scary it must have been for the poor little thing. Preeya poured years of love into re-building the skeleton and now it's on display as a work of art. I'm so proud of her - it was an incredible process.







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Doug posted more & better photos on his blog DLT XII.

Over Here, Over in Times Square

Friday night Abe and I went to see the final performance of Over Here, Over There part of Manhattan Repertory Theater's Summer Fest series. The play was written by Vincent A. Apollo and starred our very own Ryan Fitzsimmons. Congratulations to Fitz!

We walked over the Pulaski Bridge to catch the 7 train.

Pianos

Thursday night there were four bands playing at Pianos and I had friends in three of them so it was very fun... and very convenient. Felt like we live in a small town with one music venue.


Sadek, Margot and Mamie-Claire walking to get pre-show falafel.


HEXA


Bear in Heaven


Suckers

Bike New York 2009

Sunday I rode in the 5 Boro Bike Tour. It's a 42 mile bike ride through all five boroughs of NYC. This year it was raining pretty hard and I had a baby shower to go to so I stopped riding in Brooklyn.

Night of a Thousand Stevies

Honestly, there is nothing I enjoy more than putting on costumes, drinking some beer, and "playing pretend" with my friends. I am very lucky to roll with a large group of people that feel the same way.

Friday night started off at Chelsea and Sam's apartment where a group of people were prepping for Fitz' "Summer in Miami" party. It was 50 degrees and raining outside, but that did not stop them from barbequing and partying on his deck all night long.





Unfortunately, I could not participate in Miami night because I was meeting my friends for A Night of a Thousand Stevies (click the link to learn more - I can't even begin to explain). We met up at Margot's house to begin the Stevie transformation.






Photo shoots ensued and then we left the house and walked to the train - making sure to walk down Bedford Avenue to complete the spectacle.





We hopped on the L train and from 8th Avenue we walked to the Highline Ballroom. All but one of us were virgins to NOTS and we had no idea we were walking into the greatest drag show in town. Honestly, I thought it was going to be a small venue filled with women and the occasional man in drag, but us straight girls were definitely the minority!




We took the upper floor and danced the night away, but most of us left by 1am completely exhausted.

After all, we are adults with responsibilities.

An Evening with Fleetwood Mac

Last night was one of those magical night ladies spend their lives dreaming about...I went to a Fleetwood Mac concert. Me, Chelsea, Lauren, Colleen, Meredith, Piper and our token male, Kenny, bought the tickets months ago and have been anxiously waiting for March 19th. I don't think I have been this excited for a concert since Green Day.

First we met at the Triple Crown for some din-din and pre-show drinks.















The show was amazing with ups (Stevie and Lindsey embracing on stage) and downs (fake horn section during Tusk) and twists (gold shawl) and turns (black shawl). Stevie was incredible. Lindsey still seems like a genius/douche (lots of prayer hand thank you's to the audience).



Fleetwood didn't hold back - we heard all the hits and loved every second of it.


We were on a bathroom break when Rhiannon started - this is a photo of Meredith flying out of the stall and Lauren taking her place with lightning speed.

At times I felt like I was at a Jimmy Buffet concert, but whatever, I wasn't...I was with Fleetwood Mac god damn it!