Rachel: [to Monica] You’re going to love this cake! I got it from a bakery in New Jersey, Carino’s!
Monica: That place has the creamiest frosting! I used to hitchhike there when I was a kid!
Rachel: Well, they make make these great novelty cakes in different shapes; and if you give them a photo, they’ll copy it in icing!
Monica: Did you do a picture of Emma?
Rachel: On a cake shaped like a bunny!
Ross: Does this bakery by any chance bake erotic cakes, for bachelorette parties?
Rachel: What are you talking? -OH, MY GOD! They put my baby’s face on a penis!
[Everyone rushes to see the cake.]
Phoebe: Now it’s a party! -Friends

I think a lot of you won’t be surprised when I tell you that Match and I decided we wanted to have a co-Bachelor/Bachelorette party, or some call them a “Jack and Jill” party. We’re each other’s best friends and we don’t really like the all girls or all guys get togethers that much. Match might go bachelor paintballing one of these nights, and I may have some girls over for wine, but for the crazy partying, we prefer to be together.

My friend Baker Chic wanted to throw it, and has a ton of games and fun decorations planned for it. She won’t tell me the details but in almost all of them it will be a battle  of the sexes, or girls vs. guys. She also came up with this adorable theme: Black and White or Animal Print-Classy or Classless! Is that not so fun? There are so many different ways this can be interpreted and ways to make it fun. I’ve decided I want to use both parts of the theme, so I’m going with Zebra being that it’s animal print AND black and white. I’m on the hunt for my perfect outfit. I want something sexy and fun but not over the top. Plus keep in mind I’ll have my big hot pink “Bride to Be” sash on. I’m searching for a black skirt with zebra top, or maybe a zebra dress, though I seem to be striking out there. I also don’t want to spend very much on it.
Here are some that I’ve found online so far:

Do you love how the mannequin has sass? I’d pair this top with a black short skirt.

Also, here’s a few ideas I had for Match. He’s going to wear black dress pants, a black pinstripe button up shirt that makes him look so sexy, and we’re going to give him a hot pink button or something that says “Groom to Be”.

Btw I’d totally buy the coat too if he’d actually wear it, which he wouldn’t!

I told him I want to get him a hat and he was all on board with the idea. I think it’d be great if I could find him a Zebra tie as well.

What do you guys think? Any other suggestions for either of us, or places I can find these items for cheap?

The party is set for August 21st and I can’t wait! SoDid you have a bachelor or bachelorette party? Did you do a Jack and Jill party instead?

Roy: [answers phone] Hello, IT. Have you tried turning it off and on again? … OK, well, the button on the side. Is it glowing? … Yeah, you need to turn it on. Err, the button turns it on. Yeah, you do know how a button works, don’t you? No, not on clothes.
[Moss's phone rings. He answers it.]
Moss: Hello IT. Yuhuh. Have you tried forcing an unexpected reboot?
Roy: No, there you go, I just heard it come on. No, that’s the music you hear when it comes on. No, that’s the music you hear when… I’m sorry, are you from the past?
Moss: You see the driver hooks a function by patching the system call table so it’s not safe to unload it unless another thread is going to jump in there and do its stuff and you don’t want to end up in the middle of invalid laptop memory… Hello? -The IT Crowd

It’s the last week of July people! Let’s raise a PINT to the last Tuesday of the month.

Lauren: when you’ve disrespected someone so much, they arent going to be there for you.
Audrina: No, not at all.
Lauren: And at this point I have no intention of being there for her.
Audrina: Oh well, what can you do?
Lauren: All I know is thank you for getting out of my life because now I have a better roommate and a better apartment and I’m just in a better situation.
Audrina: Yea.
Lauren: Cheers, Frankie’s birthday.
Audrina: Let’s go have fun, who cares, it’s done and over with.
Lauren: It’s going to be a long night. -The Hills

Yesterday all day at work I was counting the hours until I could go home. I’d had a late night hanging out with Baker Chic the night before and I didn’t get much sleep (Match was all about the snuggles and I just couldn’t resist ok?). Match and I had originally planned on going out to eat for date night before he left for work, but as the day wore on I got more and more sleepy and sweatpants were calling my name. So we decided to do take out from our favorite Vietnamese place and have our date night in.

After dinner Geeky came over for a long overdue gab sess. I bought these scrumpious almond chocolate cookies from Trader Joe’s and we cracked open a bottle of Late Harvest Zin (courtesy of BT’s family). We hadn’t talked just the two of in what felt like forever, and we ended up staying up til 1 AM! The night before Baker Chic and I had watched He’s Just Not That Into You and had a gab sess as well. I love hanging out in big groups, but sometimes it’s really nice to have that one on one time with good friends.

When Geeky was over, she mentioned that she doesn’t like Drama Chick anymore. I high fived her because seriously I don’t get why people continue to hang out with that girl. She’s rude, bossy, and above all, she is completely disrespectful to our friend Couple Wife. Drama used to sleep with Couple Wife’s husband way back in the day, long before CW met him. While that’s awkward enough, Drama goes out of her way to MENTION it at every chance she gets, to Couple Wife! I just don’t understand how a woman can be so gross and disrespectful not only to herself but to her friend like that. What’s funny too is Geeky, Baker and I all agree that while CW is a total Alpha Female in some respects, she just can’t seem to tell Drama off and she continues to spend time with her. If it were me and an ex of Match’s were hanging out with me, constantly bringing up details of her past with my man, you can bet she’d be getting the business side of a knuckle sandwich and some choice words.

It was funny how the two gab sessions I had with Geeky and Baker were like convex mirrors. Both times we lamented on the dating game and how relieved that we’ve found good guys, and both times we also talked about how sometimes men can be so clueless. Geeky and I laughed about how both our men are so oblivious to the female attention they get all the time. They never seem to catch on that girls are hitting on them! I love having girl nights like last night and Thursday. I’m going to have to get Baker Chic and Geeky over because I’m sure the three of us we’ll have lots to gab about.

When’s the last time you had a girl’s gab session with a close friend?

Does my being half-naked bother you?
— Jacob Black

It’s no secret that I’m a huge Twilight fan. When I first met Match, he was romantic like nothing I was ever used to. I credit the Twilight series for making me believe in romance again. When he first started sleeping over, I was in the middle of reading Eclipse. I remember he used to tease me because I’d have vampire dreams and mumble Edward in my sleep. Eclipse is one of my all time favorite books and definitely my favorite of the series, so I couldn’t wait to see it on the big screen.

Saturday I finally got the chance to see Eclipse with Baker Chic and her mom. Being my favorite book of the series, I figured if they got the storyline even half right I’d be happy. They went above and beyond that and the movie blew me away. It’s definitely my favorite movie of the series too. I loved all of the humor mixed in with the drama. I’m totally on Team Edward, but let’s face it, when Jacob says, “well I am hotter than you” I could not agree more. In the books, I know Edward is a hottie, but in the movie Jacob has the man beat in the looks department. I am pretty sure I could watch an entire movie of Taylor Lautner as a mechanic doing rv repairs shirtless for hours. Hehehe.

I came home and asked Match if he could get abs like Jacob as my wedding present.

Also, blond moment or Freudian slip happened as we were leaving the theater. We were talking about the awesome Harry Potter trailer (I know I’m a geek) and Baker Chic’s mom turns to me and says, “So two months huh?” and I said, “What, until Harry Potter?” all excitedly. They both started cracking up as Baker said, “No…till your WEDDING!” Ha, shows where my priorities are huh?

Berg: I have to meet Bernie and Fitz at the gym at nine. We’re watching intermediate aerobics.
Pete: Come on Berg, just go to the ten o’clock session.
Berg: That’s advanced aerobics. Any girl with that kind of discipline, totally wrong for me. -Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place

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