I had an interview a few hours ago, when it was raining.
Now the sun is out and taunting me, all “Look at me! Shining away! Rubbing it in your face that I wasn’t around earlier, when you had to make your way downtown in the rain! While wearing a white skirt! TO AN INTERVIEW! Sucka!”
A white skirt that now, as of a few moments ago, is dotted with droplets of VitaminWater (dragonfruit, which is pink - hot pink, because OF COURSE).
Note to self: no more white skirts because, really, who are you kidding you spaz.
The interview went well. In fact, I wasn’t nervous at all until I met the interviewer and he was tall and British and handsome with perfectly mussed hair and Converse and for a moment I was all, “this thing? On my left hand? The thing that is currently blinding you as we have a conversation? Oh it’s just costume jewelry. You know, to keep the men away at the bar. Now, tell me more about…”
Oh shut up. Like you’ve never flirted to get a job. (Wait, you haven’t? Really? Just me? Is the hair toss and flirty laugh too much? What about absentmindedly caressing my cleavage while answering a question?) (Note: I’ve never done any of the previous except maybe a mildly flirty laugh; I am six for six in post-college job interviews.) Alright. No one wants to read about my damn interview, I get it.
How about bachelor parties? Want to read about them?
I’m not going to give you my thoughts on them. Mainly because my thoughts consist of “eww dirty gross one last night of freedom bullshit fuck off marriage does not come with a damn pair of shackles you retarded frat boys get over it.” Ahem.
I am going to ask your thoughts on joint bachelor/ette parties. M and I both want to have ours in Vegas. Because, why not. When we both realized this, we kind of looked at each other across the table and were like, “why don’t we just do it at the same time?” Because, truth be told, we’d rather be there together, with all of our friends, than be there separately, missing each other (dependent much? Shut up.)
Is that lame? (Answer from M’s friends, I’m sure: A resounding YES!) I’m thinking we don’t have to do everything together, as in - he can have dinner with the boys and us girls can have dinner elsewhere and then, sometime during the night, we can all meet up and get drunk and I can make out with my fiancé instead of sitting in a corner with a damn veil on my head, drinking a Cosmopolitan out of a penis straw, watching my single friends make out with random men while I dream about making out with my fiancé who is all the way back east in our apartment in New York City.
It’s so far in the future and I really should be more productive with my time for there are color schemes to be picked out and venues to be looked at and blah blah blah, all I can think about is “oooh where would we stay?” and “oooh, which of our friends will end up hooking up?”
Because I may be engaged, but I’m still 25 years old. And while I’m ready to be married, of course, planning the bachelor/ette (Jack & Jill?) party is a lot more appealing and a lot less stressful than planning a wedding. Trust me on that one.
INTERVIEW-RELATED UPDATE: Guess who just got an offer? For an awesome job? Making a ton more money? Aww, that’s right…seven for seven, baby.
My thoughts (slightly influenced by our convo yesterday): I like the idea of you going out to Vegas together, but I would probably do seperate parties and then meet each other in the room later that night. It’s your only bachelorette party ever. Live it up in the way only bachelorette parties can be. With all your girls and no boys…except maybe some from Thunder Down Under.
Did you ever watch My Fair Brady? (No? Um, yeah, me neither…) They both had their parties on the same day (in Vegas, I think) and ended up wasted and fighting and all the friends were so over it. Not to say that you and M are like that, but why even put yourself in that situtation?
Anyway, just my (very long) thoughts!
I say do whatever you want to do! I most definitely do not want a bachelorette party in the traditional sense and will absolutely run away if anyone tries to do it.
I always have more fun when BFF is around so knowing that I would be able to see him later would proabably make it more fun that thinking about him cross country.
I’m sure you and M will come up with a good compromise of having your own time with the girls and boys but still getting to see each other. What you both want is all that matters - it’s your wedding!
It’s your wedding!! You should do whatever you want.
Congratulations! I just came back here to leave a comment I realized I didn’t mention the interview and saw the update. YES!
Yay!!! Congrats!
That’s fantastic on the interview! Congratulations!
On the party… do whatcha want, as long as it’s respectful of each other, you know? If his friends need to take him out in order not to think he’s totally whipped and that’s important to him, then let them. And if you both want to meet up later in the evening, then do it. Personally, I would die if #1 suggested Vegas for his bachelor party (if we were to get engaged, that is). I know he would probably just want to play craps all night, but I don’t trust his friends to keep him innocent in such close proximity to so many strip clubs ;).
Dang, Clink. An engagement and a job offer. Go buy a lottery ticket or something.
Hi Clink… just a lurker but I had to post a comment after reading your blog and loving it so much. The proposal was ADORABLE and M seems great… I personally LOVE the idea of a joint party but I agree, for some reason the guy’s friends never go for it as much… oh well - it’s YOUR party! do whatever you want
My Big Bro and his wife did a joint party and it was really fun! We kind of make fun of them for it but it was an awesome time and I had more friends on the “bachelor” side of the party anyways. We did separate dinners before hand and then all met up to party together.
I say, do it.
Congrats on the offer!
I think that having the joint party in Vegas should satisfy even the frat boy-est of M’s friends.
CONGRATULATIONS!! WHOO HOO.
I agree - I love the idea of you going to Vegas together and spending some time with joint friends but I would def do separate parties. Let the boys be boys and the girls be girls b/c in my experience bachelor parties are only as worse as the stereotype and it is very rare that a man even wants to go all out stag party and get wild crazy. And you seem to have a great man in M - so def keep it separate
if for anything - all your single girls who just want to get wild and crazy 
I have a friend who did just what you describe in Vegas. She and her gf’s stayed in one room and her fiance and his friends in their own room. They would actually have dinner together and then go out on their own, so a bit opposite of what you’re thinking, but either way I think it’s whatever you guys want to do.
Congrats on the job offer!!
The Vegas thing is totally do-able. Some friends of mine did it. The guys had their own party bus and the girls had theirs…then they met up at the end of the night/early morning for breakfast and to swap stories and stuff. It was a blast. They got to have their own thing and then have each other too. Did I mention that the party buses have a stripper pole in them…pole dancing while drunk and in a moving bus isn’t the best idea. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. Have fun!