Textorama

Text messages can actually be quite tricky. They have actually caused a lot of trouble and worry that we wouldn't have ever had before the invention of this tiny little message.

I personally am a bad texter. It used to take me forever to write a short message because the phone I was using was as old as a dinosaur. Now that I have my new iPhone, I am a fast texter but I'm still pretty bad at it. I'm an awful texter because I don't really ever know what to write back to people. I try to be funny but I sound sarcastic and mean. I try to sound consoling and instead I just write a :( face. I try to flirt and be cute and it comes out dumb. Someone needs to offer a class - Showing the Right Textmotion 101.

My friend is having a text message issue as well. She hasn't heard from this guy that she has been interested in for quite some time now. Yesterday, after a long hiatus, he text messaged her and said "Hey you". How is that for literary genius? Since she decided that she deserved more than a silly 2 word message she didn't write him back. Instead she held out for a phone call that hasn't come yet.

The politics of texting between people can get so heated. My friend is now in the game of who will contact who. How will this guy ever know that she would have preferred an actual phone call. We might say "How hard is it to pick up the phone and call?" but for some, it takes more effort to send a text. When I send an important text, I think about it for awhile, write it, delete it, write it, edit it, give up and send it. Then it usually doesn't say what I want it to say anyway so I have to follow up with another text. Honestly, sometimes more thought goes into a text. You can't deny what is written down and saved in another person's phone but you can say that someone misheard you if you happen to not say what you meant to say.

So who is right here? Is it bad manners to just text message if it has been awhile since speaking? Is it better to just not say anything at all? Would a phone call really have helped in this situation? Are there classes for etiquette with phone use - Textiquette perhaps?

Bug Bites Bite

I currently have a huge bug bite on my eyelid. It is puffy and looks like a sty. I almost cancelled my date with Meat Head tonight because of it. Unfortunately he is going on vacation later this week and I won't get a chance to see him any other night (More on how I've become a loser later).

I cannot put anti-itch cream on my eyelid for fear that it would run into my eye. I can't take Benadryl internally or I will fall asleep on my dinner. Thankfully there are these amazing inventions called eyeliner and mascara! My eyelashes are currently super long - Thank you Loreal. I also have covered the bump which is right on my lash line with the eyeliner and have covered that with eyeshadow. Just to take extra precaution, I have parted my hair on the side and will sit through dinner with bangs in my face :) The picture below is of the boots I am using to cover up the bites on my ankles!

The mosquitoes won't get the best of me!!

The Tipping Point

When I am out at a party or at a bar there is this point in time that I would like to think of as "The Tipping Point." That point is when you have had a few drinks and are having a fun time but you begin to make decisions that you might consider to be bad decisions if you wouldn't have had that last drink.

One of the bad decisions that I make often is that I decide to drunk dial. I look through my phone and decide that the guy I haven't talked to in a few months, needs to hear from me. This guy doesn't need to hear from me. Don't drunk dial. One of my close friends decided to take action against drunk dialing. She changed the name of the guy that she normally calls when she is tipsy to "Don't Even Think About It" instead of his name. This way, there is a reminder every time she thinks about picking up that phone.

Another not so hot decision is kissing the boy that keeps getting cuter the more you sip your margarita. Don't drink until he is cute because at a point down tho road, you will be sober again and he won't be as cute. If you do decide to smooch with beer goggles, make sure not to take any pictures with him. That way you can always be in denial about him and think he really was that cute.

Don't be "That Girl" which isn't really a conscious decision but is way after the tipping point. If you do get super drunk, go home! "That Girl" usually decides not to go home and continues dancing like she is on the set of footloose, falling all over her friends, accidentally showing her floral undies to the rest of the bar when she tries to sit on the bar stool and falls off of it. If you are a friend to "That Girl" be sure to make the right decision and get her home immediately!

Always make sure to wear cute shoes when you are going out. However, if you get to the point where you look like you are walking on stilts and wobbling all over the place, it might be your cue to slow down on the drinks. Don't ruin your shoes because you are drinking. That might be the worst decision ever!

Are Guys Made To Buy Drinks?

Last night, a few of my girlfriends and I went to a cute little bar in the Lower East Side called The Vig Bar. We finally got out of a conversation with the weirdest guy ever (he was listening to his iPod in the bar which had a DJ blasting music) and happened to spot a set of 3 cute guys - the perfect number to match our party. We were all talking and having a good time and drinking. The girls bought more drinks and then awhile later, the guys bought some drinks but didn't offer to buy us any. It is not that we always expect drinks, but it is a nice gesture (and if you are a guy bragging about how many properties you own in the city and across the US, you can certainly afford a Dirty Martini too). We continued on to another bar with the boys who, again, didn't offer to buy drinks. This bar was super crowded and it was very difficult to even find the bar much less order from it. When they bought theirs, they should have offered to get some for us.

By the end of the night, one of the guys made a comment to my friend about being a guy and being expected to buy her drink and how he doesn't do that. She hadn't said anything to him and had been buying her drinks all night without complaint. Should guys make the offer and buy the drink?

- Girls buy makeup, purses, cute outfits, lots of shoes, hair products, etc to make themselves look cute to go out. Do we have to buy our own drinks on top of all that?

- It is a nice gesture to buy a girl a drink or at least offer. If you are a guy and don't want to buy a drink for a girl, wait until she has a full one in her hand to get one for yourself. That way, you can offer but she will have to say no since she already has one - unless she is a lush and wants to down 2 at a time. In that case, run.

- Girls, don't wait around for a guy to buy your drink. Make sure that you can in fact buy your own. The point of getting a guy to buy your drink shouldn't be because you are strapped for cash. Very few guys want to see a desperate woman in need of a drink waiting at the bar empty handed. You will look more confident if you just waltz up to the bar by yourself and open your own wallet. Hey, who knows, the guy standing at the bar might be cuter than the one you left standing on the dance floor.

- If you are chatting with a guy for awhile and he doesn't offer to buy you a drink, he might not be into you. If a guy likes you, he wants to show off his macho man moves and offer to get you something from the bar. It is a nice gesture and he wants you to stick around and have that drink with him. You should drink your cocktail with the person who bought it for you.

Just a few things to keep in mind when you are searching the bar for someone to quench your thirst...

Synched Up

I tried my hardest to post a blog from my new iPhone, however, I am accepting defeat on this one for now. I just cannot get it to type into the box it is supposed to type into. I can give the blog a name and a label, I just can't type it. Posting while being out and about in the city would be perfect. Until further notice I am still posting from my computer.

Freebees!

Isn't it funny how hard some people work to get things for free? I am definitely on top of that list of people. Tonight, I spent a lot of my evening running around Soho looking for a free goody bag for a Lucky Magazine shopping event. After my friend and I finally scored our gift bags, there were countless girls who asked us where we got them. If they only knew that the bags contained a magazine and a few crappy lip gloss samples they might not have been so eager to get them.

Free things are so much fun though. It is like a little bonus that you get for doing nothing but just being in the right place at the right time (the key is to get one before they run out). Another fun thing to get for free are drinks. In the city there are a few open bars that happen every once in awhile. It is a nice change of pace to get a drink for free rather thank pay upwards of $12 for one. An open bar is sometimes the devil in disguise. The drinks are free which make you drink more, and sometimes faster if there is a time limit, which gets you drunk pretty quickly. Usually the open bars are right after work which means that they are before any sort of dinner, another hazard of the open bar.

Just like anything else, it is only good in moderation. Too many free drinks - well, you can guess what happens. Too many free gift bags - they lose their luster and appeal. Too many free shoes - there is nothing wrong with that. I can't wait until that day comes for me!

A New Name For Meat Head

Over these past few weeks that I have been seeing Meat Head, there have been a few people that have asked about him. When they ask "How is Meat Head doing?" or "How are things with Meat Head going?" I don't typically think of him. Instantly my imagination takes me to a fist pumping, hair full of gel, muscle milk slugging, Jersey Boy. This is not my Meat Head, therefore, he needs a new nickname. I am also thinking that people are beginning to assume he is stupid or slow (no offense to you real meat heads out there) and he really isn't. I don't want people to think that I would spend my time with someone really dumb. Here are some of the names I was thinking of...

- Rebound Guy - I might be his rebound girl, so I might as well just call him rebound guy. I am always rebounding from some kind of date, even if it isn't an actual relationship.

- Buff Guy - While he isn't a Meat Head, he still works out and has nice muscles.

- Jersey Boy - Yes, he is from Jersey (which is one of the main reasons that he was named Meat Head in the first place) and it is only appropriate to base his namesake off of the wonderful state that he comes from.

- Sneaker Man - Every time that we have hung out and gone to dinner, he has worn a different pair of sneakers. He even has a pair with his name embroidered on them. Now you all know what we have in common - Footwear!

Until further notice, I guess that I will continue to call him Meat Head. I am going for drinks with him tonight, so maybe I will come up with a better name then :)

Birthday Fabulousness Part 3

This weekend I finally finished celebrating my 25th birthday. It is a lot of fun celebrating for an entire week, however, it is also exhausting. I was in sunny Pennsylvania this weekend to party with my family and old school friends (not that they are "old school" but they are longtime friends that I went to school with). Here are a few of the new things I learned this lovely weekend - It is true that you get smarter with age:

1) Birthday shoes are a must. They are fun and fantastic. See below for a few selections from my week.

2) Electric fly swatters are a hoot and can make hours of fun. They are also quite effective and totally worth the $3.00. I don't suggest shocking yourself with it though. It seems like a fun idea and it's really not fun.

3) Chicken cutlets (not the food) are a very interesting invention. Who knew that something that resembles a cold dead bird can make for such lifelike and realistic looking cleavage.

4) Nothing beats a home-cooked meal. I lied. Eating a home-cooked meal with your family is even better.

5) Eating a home-cooked meal with your family and having birthday cake for dessert is priceless. I know I sound like a credit card commercial but, damn that cake was good.

Here are some of the shoes that helped me celebrate my birthday....love them!

Also, thank you to everyone who helped me have fun in these shoes while I celebrated...love them too!

I Heart Surprises

Today after a long day at work, I walk into my building and my doorman says that I have a delivery. That delivery happens to be a beautiful bouquet of flowers! The fabulous surprise came via Meat Head.

I think he likes me :)

Birthday Fabulousness Part 2

Last night I celebrated my turning 'half of fifty' at the Minetta Tavern. I was so excited to go to this restaurant since it is almost impossible to get reservations (a few months wait for a table = impossible). The dinner was absolutely worth the wait and amazing! Can you say "mashed potatoes mixed with blue cheese" amazing? I probably gained 10 pounds at that one dinner.

At dinner, we were approached by a couple of guys that my friend knew. They sat down and bought us another bottle of wine. They seemed nice at first but then they were a little too tipsy for my tastes. All of the boys that read this blog, please know that girls don't generally like guys who are drunk, talking too close to your face, trying to put their arms around you when it is uninvited, and kissing you on the cheek when it is very uninvited. Us ladies don't really tend to like that too much.

Despite the really drunk guys, I had a wonderful time catching up with friends and toasting to my last 25 years and my upcoming ones. I can't wait to see how fabulous they are going to be!