ok on to the long awaited story!
sarah flew in on sunday afternoon and that evening we went to devon's house for a drink and then on to dinner and a few drinks. for the evening, it was devon and patrick, patrick's friend (whose name i am drawing a blank on), and devon's friends christine and nikolai. we made our way to multiple locations and had a bevy of various beverages. it was such a fun evening! i'll post pictures soon - i got a new camera for christmas and haven't figured out how to upload pictures yet... or rather i haven't felt like figuring it out...
on sunday, sarah and i went shopping for nye clothes. i had planned on wearing this one dress of mine but it didn't fit right and thus set off the "i must find a great dress or i won't look cute and nothing looks cute" mindset. not a good mindset. we went to scoop nyc first and sarah found the perfect outfit in no time. i, on the other hand, found nothing and so i dragged sarah around to a bunch of stores all up and down north... as it started to snow. and i found nothing. devon joined up with us and we decided to go and get an afternoon snack of tacos. they were so yummy! eventually, we went back to scoop for sarah to get a belt and i ended up finding some great bracelets and decided that the bracelets paired with the blue dress i have at home would be perfect for the evening.
once we got home, we rested for a bit in front of the tv and then the preparations began. showers, curling irons, straighteners, and gobs of makeup all over the counter in the bathroom showed how serious we were about looking good on this rather annoying annual tradition called new years eve. that's a whole nother blog though about how much i hate the build up and anticipation of new years when really, isn't just like any other night?! why must it be this fabulous night?! and further, why is it that the night is never fabulous?!? but i digress...
kim and jared came over a little later - i think around 6:30 and we had a lovely dinner at my house. kim had made a delicious caserole and salad and i provided chips, salsa, and queso. and a bottle of cakebread wine... yum! after dinner, we bundled up in our warmeset scarves and coats and braced ourselves for the jarring cold and snow. we were all wearing dresses and kim and i had on open toed shoes. perfect for the snow, right?! we headed out and went to rockit bar and grill in river north. once we got there, we met up with brian and his friends. brian is a guy i work with here at tsg real estate. and then.... i began sucking down the stoli orange and sevens.
and then i continue to suck down the stoli orange and sevens. in my defense, it was an open bar and the drinks were small with a lot of ice cubes. not so much in my defense, i did drink a ton of them very quickly! and then at midnight, there were balloons that dropped down from the ceiling and we all had a champagne toast. it was a lot of fun. sarah, kim, and jared all decided to leave at some point and even though they definitely told me and i handed over my keys to sarah, i didn't compute that they were really leaving. so i floated around talking to random people and i was talking to some random guy that knew a guy i knew in high school. and then i decided to leave or rather the bar was closing so i had to leave. as i was going down the stairs, i of course, fell. go me. and i bruised my left arm really good. it is finally just now disappearing! whoops. and then i went downstairs to get my coat. and it just continues to get worse and worse....
i went to get my coat and sarah and i had put our coats together and had both the tags. she didn't know which tag was for which coat so she just gave me one tag and took the other when she left. unfortunately she grabbed the one that i had been wearing which was a longer warmer version and also had my scarf and gloves in it. the other coat was a shorter coat that sarah had borrowed... so it wasn't as warm. and then i headed outside with everyone else to look for a cab. and couldn't get one to save my life. everyone was out there fighting for a cab and i couldn't get one. so i decided to take out my directions for the el and try to find that to get home. i'd mapped it out before leaving for the night knowing that cabs would be a problem. however, in my drunken state, i started walking, but couldn't find the el. somehow i managed to walk to somewhere... and find a little indoor vestibule, but i was already freezing. let's not forget that it is still snowing and i'm wearing a dress, bare legs, and open toed shoes. and a short coat. i tried to call sarah a hundred times and i tried to call kim too. but i couldn't get anyone so i started to get really scared. i had no idea where i was since i don't know that area at all and i was so freaking cold i thought i might die. finally i got ahold of kim and finally jared got a cab up by his house and came and got me as there were still no available cabs anywhere to be seen by me since all the bars had just let out.
so, jared, being the saint that he is, came in a cab and rescued me just as my phone was about to die he found me and i ran out to the cab where of course i started to sob and apologize for being so stupid and thanking him more than profusely for coming to pick me up and rescue me!! so then, b/c i was so shaken i made him hold me (and no it's nothing like that. he's kim's boyfriend and i don't see him in that light at all) and then take me all the way up to my house and then back to his house which is only slightly out of the way. ok it's probably a 10 minute round trip out of the way. i finally get home and i know i scared sarah to death and i feel terrible about that! she put me in much warmer clothes, made me eat, threatened to make me go to the hospital if i didn't stop sobbing, and then put some extra warm blankets on the bed. such a wonderful friend! but i felt terrible... i will never get that drunk again. that was ridiculous!!
oh the hangover the next day too! my lord. that sucked. and we had to get up early b/c sarah had to leave. it was much much too short of a trip!!
2 comments:
uh oh! no pics of me in glasses!!!! and once you put your NYE story up I'll write mine. You have until Saturday to write it because after Saturday I'll be able to read again and will be playing catch up.
i didn't think we put THAT much make up on :)
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