the engagement party

it's a lovely tale of bad humor mistaken as wit and a grand scheme to excuse bad decisions. and it was so fun!

so a few weeks ago my computer stopped booting up. i needed my installation discs which were all back in rhode island. my friend found me the correct installation disc here from one of his friends and in my haze of elation i told him i would marry him. now this guy is a 20 year old brittish kid who is into house music and drinking himself silly. he is also skinnier than me. would never marry anyone skinnier than me. but, ironically, his name is brad. that caused some confusion on facebook (since my real and wonderful boyfriend is also named brad).

anyway, we decided to throw an "engagement" party and invite all of our friends. i was obviously the "bride" and bradley the "groom." my roommate, caitlin, was the mother of the bride and emily was the father of the bride. betsy was the flower girl and werner was the uncle of the groom (not sure what part the uncle plays really). bradley set up an event on facebook in which he listed rules for the attendees. we were all to dress as if actually going to an engagement party, each guest was to bring a gift for the happy couple, and everyone had to tell the bride (me) how beautiful i looked "despite how beautiful she does or does not look." (thanks bradley)

so many people showed up to brad's flat. i received lots of wine, chocolat viennois (it's bread) wrapped in paper with a string around it, lolipops, keychains, chocolate eggs with toys inside of them, a candycane and a small plastic bag filled with anthony's hair. if you all knew anthony (pronounced antony), you would understand the humor in THAT gift. he's a socially awkward welshman. we're going to go see britney spears together - she is his greatest love. i plan to throw the bag of hair on stage for britney. maybe it will inspire the poor girl to shave her head again.

i had a great time at the party. i'm pretty sure everyone did. there were italians, brits, americans, french, columbians...i love how diverse our parties have been lately. europe is beautiful in that way i guess. the pictures are great - they look as fun as the party actually was. i did, however, recover in bed for 2 days watching the entire (and only...and WONDERFUL) season of freaks and geeks. it wasn't so much that i drank too much. in fact, it's really because i got to bed at 4 and am just too old these days. my body needed some rest. it might have also been due to the snow and cold weather the past 2 days. the couple of hours i did leave the house yesterday i lost feeling in all of my extremities.

emily and werner slept on our new pull out couch (which fits wonderfully and beautifully in our tiny little apartment). we all got up in the morning and went in search of food. it took us hours to find something worthy of day-after-party food to satisfy our need for greese and lard. we finally landed on pizza but our 2 hour walk was so bitterly cold that i couldn't bring myself to leave the house again. we are going to watch some football (yay!) at an american bar in the 6th tonight and that will be our first time out of the house. i suppose i should try to come up with a lesson plan before that.

well, that's my story. turns out it's not as great as i thought it would be. i guess you had to be there. but you can't tell me the pictures don't make you wish you had been...