aced it

date: Dec 13

drink: Yuengling, a few hefeweizen and a hoegaarten

what: V's birthday - V being one of J's friends, which meant meeting j's friends and sister for the first time at the marshall stack, some other bar on Rivington and then on to Becky's

so, incase anyone is keeping score, i met 2 of J's closest friends, his sister/BIL, and other assorted friends... and by the way, thats a LOT for one night. i wont lie - i was a little deer-in-headlights for the first hour or so but once i got the feel for the group, i was good.

In fact, in the end, i was SO good at meeting the friends/sister/etc (well, no etc, just friends & sister), that i'm due to send out a blog link to one friend, slated to get a box of christmas cookies from the sister (ok, they're for her brother, but they are coming to my apartment - thats something, right?) and, solidifying my awesomeness - J got high-fived for having snagged me ;)

However, moving on from my narcissim... one of the best parts of the night had to be when the Santa-Conners made it to the bar... partially cause its always good fun to see some santa-conners without the rest of the group (just making them people running around in santa suits if you dont know of santa-con which means its fun to watch other people react to them) and partially because these people have been drinking ALL DAY. and you havent. and there's nothing more fun than watching drunks make fools of themselves...

Case in point:

These two - they walk out of the bar and then proceed to lean right up against it and go at it... and of course, because we're all mature adults, the entirety of the bar forms a semicircle around them (from inside), watching, cheering and taking pictures... they finally noticed the flashes and the crowd that had formed and you'd think that maybe they'd move on? or realize that they were being out of control? oh no. instead, they just moved down past the windows, found themselves a nice spot on the LES sidewalks and sat down and continued (and probably progressed - i tried to not look too closely).

I believe that we all applauded when they finally returned to the bar an hour or so later...