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i love a good joke

Today is one of my favorite days of the year. There's nothing better than coming up with a brilliant old-fashioned prank and executing it on a group of your closest friends and family. And the best part about April Fools Day, is that everyone in the world KNOWS that it's April Fools Day and is deliberately trying to come up with jokes and pranks to play on people, and yet it is still totally possible (and most of the time, probable) that you will be successful in the carrying out the prank. Glorious.

So here was mine:
I started out by sending a simple text to all of my siblings and siblings-in-law. It was short and to the point: "I'm engaged." and then I just waited for the texts to roll back in... I think that was the most number of texts I've ever received in such a short amount of time - ever...which I kinda loved.

All the responses back were great, and had me rolling in laughter at my desk, but this one, from my sister-in-law, Monica, was by far the best:
I am pregnant with twins! Just found out. So much for getting my tubes tied. Due in november. Congrats to you.

Even though when I talked to her later she said her heart did drop for a second when she first got my text...she quickly figured out what the date was and decided to dish it back at me. Annnd that's why I love April Fools Day.

good-bye Stephanie!

Shake Shack burgers and fries, concretes with chocolate truffle cookie dough, 12 '08 grads, 2 leaders, and a (brisk) spring night in NYC. Can't think of a much better way to wish our sweet Stephanie off to pursue her singing career on a cruise ship than that!

Celebrity-ish Sighting #8

I'm not really sure if this is a "celebrity" or not, but definitely a well-known figure. And only in New York would you wake up at a friend's apartment and look out the window to see Sponge Bob making his way down the street.

it's Friday... but is it 6:00 yet???

survivor contestant?

No one else may find this story funny at alllll, but I almost lost it today at work as the following email chain played out between Brendan and me:

[a little background: last night at dinner, I was telling Brendan that I thought I should apply to be on the next season of Survivor. Free trip to somewhere tropical and exotic...and afterall, that is where my obsession with Elsbeth Hasselbeck started anyway! He said he'd support me if I decided to go on the show - he was kidding, I, of course, was dead serious.]

PP: it looks like i missed the deadline for the next season of survivor...but i just saved this application to my computer and will definitely check back on the website to apply for the next one! [Survivor contestant application attached]

BS: haha, i'm glad you checked on that. and you have to send a video in? they have an extensive application.

PP: yes, it was very extensive... but for the question that says "which survivor contestant do you most relate to", guess who my answer would be?! :)
yeah, maybe i should video myself doing very adventurous things...in new york city?

BS: yes, like eating a cookie from a shelf or hopping on the 2/3 train late at night.

This could be my big break:

[sign posted in McDonald's]

Sunday noontime, downtown 1 train [approaching the Rector St stop]:

I spent three very long subway stops listening to an obviously visiting family "breathe in, breathe out" in anticipation of not being able to get out of the subway doors in time when they opened and before they shut again...

THIS is why I love New York.

most perfect day ever...or pretty close


If there has ever been a perfect day, this one has come pretty close to it. This morning I had to get up and be at Redeemer to teach Sunday school at 8:45 (ah! there we go - that makes it less than perfect...I had to get up too early.) I love teaching Sunday school but sometimes it is a daunting thought to have to get up so early on my last day of the weekend to sleep in. Boy am I glad I didn't miss today! Not only were my two favorite Asian twins in attendance (as well as on very good behavior!) but we also had a new little girl move up to the 4-yr old class this morning. And while I am bursting from within right now as I type this, I decided for respect of the family, I would indirectly blog about the new student in our class...rather than using her full name and/or her parents full name. I don't know why, I just feel like church is probably the one place celebrities (for those who actually go to church) want to be able to go without being swarmed with crazy, obsessive fans (yes, like myself.) However, as inexplicit as I hope to be, if you know me well AT ALL, you are bursting from within right now too, because you know exactly who the new student in my class is...and the new mom that actually introduced herself to ME this morning as she left her daughter under my care!

freshman year in the real world: SPRING BREAK

This week was my alma mater's spring break, so in a quasi-attempt at savouring every last bit of college life that I no longer have (namely: a spring break) I emphatically hosted two great friends from Auburn and helped them celebrate their one week of scholastic freedom. It was A. BLAST.
Court and Rose Lynn on their first night in the Big Apple!
Me and Brendan at Burger Joint with RL and Court
Trying to convert Rose to a true "New Yorker"...it looks like she's well on her way with the Starbucks in hand.
Watch out for the biker lane, Court!!! 
I have NEVER seen a hot dog this big. And I have consumed a lot of hot dogs in my lifetime.
Me and little Rose petals at Serendipity
Court and Rose wishing Mary Lindsey was with us
Classic Serendipity pic with our chocolate peanut butter fro-ho-cho
Before... (can you tell the whip cream is GREEN for St. Patty's Day?!)
AFTER!
Times Square (thanks photog, Pamela!)
Reenacting RL's visit/our photo shoot from Summer 2007
One short friend, one tall
Court got tired of smiling...
beautiful Central Park!
Rose's one-bite cupcake
Introducing Rose Lynn and Courtney to Magnolia cupcakes.
cupcakes, NYC, and Auburn friends...doesn't get much better than this...
until I get a stomach ache from too much sugar.
Our last hoo-rah at Benihana. (Not quite up to Mikata standards, but definitely good...and considering it's the ONLY Japanese steakhouse I have been able to find in NYC, I'll take whatever I can get!)

out of the mouth of babes

Text message from my oldest brother, Brent, this week:

"McKay said that is how you go to Gammaw's, then turned to her friend and said her real name is Sandy, but we call her Gammaw because she is an old girl."

spring has sprung!

or, supposedly...as it is currently snowing outside right now.

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(ps - notice the Chappy's Deli sign in the right background! I would kill for some of their ranch right now...)

i'm sleepy...

It's been an exhausting (but FUN) week...hence the reason I haven't had much time/motivation to blog. However, many blog updates are coming. Rose Lynn and Courtney and I had a fabulous time playing in the big city, and many fun(ny) pictures are to come this weekend!

My game plan for the weekend is looking like this (thanks to the suggestion from Caylen) :
"rent movies and sleep in and eat big macs! :) eating a big mac with no shame! haha"

I can't think of much more that sounds more perfect than that!