I Wasn't On the Invite

Don't you love that no matter how old, females often have a habit of resorting to Junior High behavior. As much as we all try to feign a disgust for drama, I think most of us secretly crave it. Let's take last night for example. I was hanging out with four girlfriends over 1/2 price bottles of wine (things always get crazy when wine is 1/2 off!):

Friend #1 to Friend #2: "I noticed that Friend #5 and Friend #6 weren't on the email about tonight. Were they invited? Because Friend #5 asked what I was doing tonight and I didn't know if she was invited so I didn't know what to tell her."

Friend #2: "No, they weren't on the email, but they can come if they want." Besides, it's not like they invite us to everything! Well, except for last Thursday. Friend #5 sent out a text asking if anyone wanted to get a drink."

Friend #3: "I wasn't on that text!"

Glamour Girl: "I wasn't on that text either!"

Friend #4: "I'm never on the text!"

Friend #2: "It's no big deal. I didn't end up going anyway."

Friend #1: "Thursday night was always OUR night! Is Friend #5 replacing me?"

Friend #4 to Friend #1: "Well, remember the story that Friend #5 was telling us this weekend at Friend #7's bridal shower?"

Glamour Girl: "Friend #7 had a bridal shower this weekend?"

Friend #4: "Yeah, she sent out an email invite."

Glamour Girl: "I wasn't on the invite!"

Friend #4: "You weren't? I could have sworn you were."

Glamour Girl (with almost 1 full bottle finished): "Well, I always invite EVERYONE when I do something. Like my bachelorette party in NYC, I invited everyone not thinking that everyone would actually end up going, but they did. But, then we had a bigger group than I thought and I thought everyone was mad because we couldn't all stay at the friend's apartment I promised."

Friend #4: "See Glamour Girl, that's how much we all love you! Of course we all wanted to go with you to NYC!"

Glamour Girl (via text after arriving safely home and forgiving all for not being on certain emails/texts/invites, etc.): "Thanks for a great night! I love you girls!"

Seriously, where would I be without my girlfriends?

Would You Rather....?

Ok readers, you asked for it and here it is. The winning story from Friday's "Choose Your Own Adventure" post:

Let's flash back a moment, ten years ago (has it been THAT long???) to 1999 where a young, post-college Glamour Girl was taking New York City by storm. I had signed up with a temp agency that specialized in the entertainment industry. They would send me on jobs to places such as Comedy Central, Miramax, Sony, Vogue (insert oooohs and aaawwhs here!).

Of course working in places such as these led to many interesting experiences. One such experience happened when I got a call from my agency to report for a two month gig at CBS's As the World Turns.

After working at CBS headquarters for awhile, I learned that the studio where the CBS Evening News was filmed was in fact right off the main lobby of the building. As I walked by one evening on my way out, to my surprise, the door to the studio had a window. I peeked in and there he was - Dan Rather! Doing the freaking 6:00 news! I was watching something in person that the rest of the country was at home watching on their television. It was such a weird feeling!

So, I made a habit out of peeking in the window every night on my way out the door. Ya know, not stalking or anything, just checking in on Dan, still surprised that anyone working in the building could just peek in this window anytime and watch. What if I waved or made a face at him? Would he notice?

One afternoon, I was standing out in front of the building waiting for delivery of an URGENT, VERY IMPORTANT, LIFE ALTERING package (if you've ever worked in NY, you know that everything at work is URGENT, VERY IMPORTANT and LIFE ALTERING!). The CBS building is on the very west end of town, isolated, in an area with not much foot traffic. I glanced to my left to see a well-dressed man in the distance walking toward the building. There was no one else around him.

As he got closer, I couldn't believe my eyes - it was DAN!!! Yes, of course we were on a first name basis at this point. He was just waltzing into work all by himself, no entourage, no limo, not even a taxi dropping him off. It's like he just parked in the nearest garage and walked on over to work like a normal person.

Now usually I have this well-crafted facade I put on when in the presence of a celebrity (What? Oh - I totally didn't even notice Brad Pitt standing right beside me. My, I barely even know who he is. Even if I did, I wouldn't care because he's just a normal person like everyone else. DUH!). Dan must have thought I was some kind of moron because I was in a complete daze at this point and rendered uterally speechless. He looked right at me, smiled and said, "Hi, how are you?" and walked right in the door. I'm sure I probably managed to smile, nod, or maybe even utter some type of sound resembling a word. Not sure.

You know how I've mentioned recently that sometimes the imaginary life in your head is better than real life? Well, after Dan walked in the building, I smiled smugly. "Oh yeah," I thought to myself, "I bet this whole time he's been spying on me and stalking me too! I bet he even has a CRUSH on me!"

and I'd Rather just leave it at that...

My Imaginary Weekend

Ok, since I'm in a dancing mood, I've decided to add a new feature to my blog - "Playlist for this Weekend" located on the sidebar. This will be a custom selection of music each week based on the mood I'm in. You can turn it off if you want, but if you do you're officially NO FUN! :-P

Sometimes the imaginary life in your head is way more fun than real life. For example, this weekend on my to-do list is power washing the front porch and trimming hedges. I know - don't be jealous!!! But...my imaginary to-do items include going out to A-list dance clubs, shmoozing and dancing my ass off.

I will wear this dress that I'm lusting after right now along with this cute blue clutch I'm lusting after right now. Both at Franchesca's. I love that store!

In honor of my high-profile weekend with my A-list celeb friends, the "Choose Your Own Adventure" theme for this Friday is the B-list celebs I have encountered in person. I have included these story choices in a previous post, but have not written about any yet. Choose your favorite and I will tell you the juicy details on Monday!

1. Dan Rather's huge crush on me


2. The night Venus Williams became my BFF


3. Milli Mystery (or, how did I end up partying with Fab of Milli Vanilli for two nights in a row without knowing who the hell he was??!!)

Have a Dancerific Weekend!