thirsty tuesday!? a night out with wine connoisseur & baseball players!

ohhhhhh what a random fun drunken night tuesday became! it started as a lovely book author event hosted by the junior league and the union league of chicago. it turned in to a wild crazy drunken night!!

as i've written before, i love the book author series and this one was featuring mark oldman, a wine connoisseur who happens to have a new book. so when i got the email announcing his appearance along with wine tasting and food sampling, i thought... oh yes please!

mark is all about "wine speak without the geek" and told us that he thought prosecco was totally underrated and the 7-up of the wine world - in that it was super easy to drink and not too expensive. he autographed all of our copies of the book and did so by making them personal which was super cool esp after the totally unpersonal way dara torres signed her books. but, he essentially inscribed it to me, told me texas girls new how to drink, and to drink bravely. awesome. he also told us that we'd all better leave sloshed, bc wasn't that the point?! and to that end after 7 sizeable tastings and small plates of food, i indeed left there highly sloshed with 4 new friends. so yes, it was a blast!!

so i sat at a great table and met 4 new friends: jaime, amanda, katy, and sara. we'd all agreed that we needed to have a night cap... just one... and so before leaving, katy decided to slip our author a note. she'd overheard the person in front of her telling mark a not so fab place to go after dinner to meet his friend so on this note, she told him to go to the purple pig and a few other places for reasons that a big wine person would like... then she wrote purple pig again and said b/c the junior league girls are headed there!! after much laughter, the 5 of us headed over to the purple pig.
i'll end your suspense at this point: nope. mark did not show up. i'll mention that as we started talking we all admitted that we'd thought he was gay til he mentioned that he'd had a french girl as a dinner date and all of us were surprised by that! however... we met waaaaaaaaay better friends there instead!

somehow we'd all managed to belly up to the bar and find seats and were chatting away when at the end of the bar, i saw this cute cute guy and had to ask the girls what they thought. was i looking thru the drunken goggles again!? nope, they confirmed that he was indeed hot and that he kept looking at us (hopefully maybe me?!). there was also some speculation as to whether or not he was a cop based on the shirt he was wearing that had a patch on his arm. and so before i knew it, they had the weirdly hot bartender send a drink his way. and so, this hot guy comes over to thank us. he was there eating dinner by himself b/c he was waiting for his buddies to finish up their work.

chad (the hottie) - well, turns out he's from houston and played baseball for a h.s. team that is known as the best. we talked about houston and how people in my neighborhood all moved so that they could play on bellaire. we tried to play the name game, but when i asked how old he was or however it came out - turns out he's a baby! as in he's 25. so of course i kept calling him a baby and as sweet as he did, he asked how old i was and i told him 31 - and he was all, no way... no you're not! even if he was lying, i don't care... i'll take it!!

i may or may not have fb stalked him... and sent him a message/friend request!! and this picture may or may not be from his page...

and it turns out he isn't a cop - b/c we had to ask about the shirt and see if we were right in our drunken predictions... and he just laughed and said no... so we start talking some more and more and turns out he tells me he plays minor league baseball ... for the yankees! he'd played for the padres prior and had gone to TCU - where again we tried the name game, but 6 years is a lot of differential with that and thus, we didn't know the same people. and btw, his friends that he was waiting for?? yeah, that'd be some white sox players that had to finish playing their game and then were meeting him! he kept talking about this guy gordon who i finally met when he showed up... i don't remember the others' names, but in any case, i googled gordon and turns out he plays 2nd base.

turns out chad got called up to play this past summer... and he got a base hit!

that's him on the right.

and this would be his buddy gordon who had to finish up his 'work' before he could come hang out...

i ended up talking to hottie for quite awhile and then also his buddies when they showed up. and then the girls were starting to leave... and they were leaving, so i left. i wanted to keep hanging out with the boys, i mean, hulllllo, but alas i made an ass of myself and they somehow jumped in a cab and disappeared. probably better... i was wasted... and needed to go to bed!! so you may want to know how i made an arse of myself... well, i managed to miss a step or slip on a step and went down. all the way down. managed to find myself sitting indian style as if i just crumpled unto myself. i got up as fast as possible and the boys and girls were all "omg, are you ok?!?!" to which i assured everyone i was fine. fine! and just laughed it off. turns out when i got home, i looked down and my foot was a big bloody mess... i guess i scraped it really well when i fell. and it is still sore today. really super sore. i think i have a super deep bruise or semi sprain... who knows, but it isn't really swollen and i can walk so it must not be broken... thankfully! so yes, it was totally time to go home... but i really like this hottie... leave it to me to randomly find a hot boy who turns out to be from out of town and a freakin' yankee!!!

and while i didn't get his number, nor did he get mine... i did get 4 girls' phone numbers and 4 new fb friends along with the promise to obviously go out again since the night had been so much fun! and to top it off, one of the girls even suggested i apply to her hubby's company and she's going to have him help me out. so fingers crossed that something good comes from that!!