Birthday drinks

Last night, in honor of Matt's 33rd birthday, we went to The Tilted Kilt for a few drinks and some eye candy for the boys. This place is like Hooters with a Celtic twist. The girls are all dressed in short plaid skirts and half shirts... just click the link and you'll see what I mean.

Our waitress was named Keri. I thought she was nice enough, but the guys thought she was kind of scary. The first time she brought us a round of drinks, she spilled two full beers all over the place and all over Steve. I don't think she would have been the guys' first pick for a waitress, but we were in a good spot for them to scope out all the others... we were near the drink station at the bar and a lot of the waitresses stopped there pretty frequently.

There are like 1,000 tv's in this place. The food was decent. I had some pizza and the guys had wings and spinach dip. I was going to order wine, but the waitress says to me "you don't want the wine here, honey". Ok, I'll take that advice.

As usual, when hanging out with work colleagues, we spent the night gossiping about other work colleagues and trying to figure out who was the hottest in the office. Seriously, does everyone do that or is it just these guys? Whatever... it was fun times.

Matt is off work today (lucky duck!). When I left, he was already camped out on the couch watching ESPN. I have a feeling he might be in that same spot when I get home from work tonight. Let's hope he showers, at least.

Matt and me


Matt turning the camera on me


Colin turning the camera on himself


Matt and Keri

Happy Birthday Matt!

Hope you have a great birthday!

Or I guess I should say "birthday season"! : )

Slappin' da bass mon

On Sunday night, we went to the Purple Otter for their 80's trivia night. Ross came up with our team name, "Slappin' da bass mon", apparently from the movie I Love You Man. I haven't seen it, but it's a fav of his.

Our team did respectable, but nowhere near winning. The questions were tough, and the trivia lasted over four hours! And the place was hot, because the a/c was not working well and it was like 1,000 degrees outside on Sunday.

I was mentally drained and sweaty and gross by the end of the night. But, I got my fill of greasy bar food and Miller Lite, so the night wasn't all that bad. : )

MOB dress shopping

My mom took the train into town on Saturday morning. She wanted to find a dress to wear to our NYE wedding reception, so we hit up some bridal stores.

We stopped first to check out my wedding dress... it came in a few weeks ago, but I wanted her to see it and also just to make sure they got the color and length right. It was perfect! And A LOT heavier than I remembered. Maybe because it was such a hot day, I noticed the weight more than I had in February when I originally tried it on.

We almost had a dress disaster, though... when Erin went to zip the dress back up in the plastic bag, part of the dress got totally stuck in the zipper. We all just looked at each other like 'uh-oh'. We got the store's alterations lady and she was able to maneuver it out without too much snagging/ripping. Whew! At least it was in a spot that wouldn't have been noticeable even if it had ripped.

My mom tried on loads of dresses and we finally found the perfect dress. It looks great on her! We also found some goodies for the gift bags for the Bahamas! Things are starting to come together and I'm getting anxious for the big day to get here!

Interns last day

Friday of last week was the summer interns' last day of work before heading back to college. Every year, we do a big send off happy hour in the office for them, with games and such. Last year, we did the TP Olympics. This year it was scaled back a bit and we had trivia and the Family Feud.

One of the trivia games was intern coordinators/battle of the sexes. Matt is an intern coordinator, along with another girl we work with, Erin. And there are also two others, Nate and Monica. Since I am dating Matt and Erin is married to John, who also works at TP, they decided it would be fun that the six of us battle it out in a rapid-fire trivia game. Did I mention that Nate and Monica are dating also? After the first round, the girls were up by 4. But, round 2 was a debacle and the guys ended up winning and making up the difference... some might say their questions were a little easier than ours in the second round. I did not say that, because I barely remember the questions I was asked, but we heard people talking about it afterwards. It was all random, so it was pretty much luck of the draw. Originally, I was worried that it would be just me vs. Matt and one of us was going to be pretty embarassed. And by "one of us", I mean Matt, of course. : ) But, luckily it was 3 vs. 3.

Some of the other trivia competitions include 25th floor vs. 26th floor (26th floor won), Notre Dame grads vs. Notre Dame haters (ND haters won), Kraft team vs. Sara Lee team (Kraft team won). The Family Feud was between the four groups: Top Dogs, Middle Management, Young Guns, and Interns. (Middle Management won - yay!)

Afterwards, we went to Dave and Busters, where we played some more trivia. I got lots of Tootsie Rolls with my ticket winnings. : ) We finished off with dinner at the Blue Agave. Lots of interesting people watching at that place.

Greek Town

Every year, a group of people from my office go out for a big dinner in Greek Town... which just happens to be down the street from where Matt and I live. The girl that arranges the dinner, Georgia, is Greek and speaks Greek to the waiters. This year, we went to The Greek Islands.

Basically, we just order tons of appetizers and pass everything around. We get to try loads of good stuff. We had quite a big group this year (like 20 of us!) I'm a big fan of Greek food! : )

Weekend

Let's see... we stayed in Chi-town this past weekend, which was cool. We seem to have a lot of weekends where we're on the go these days.

We went to Colin and Jeannette's house for a BBQ on Friday night. Great food, great drinks, perfect weather... all made for a great dinner party. Did I mention the great food?!?! Colin is quite the chef and grilled huge steaks and sweet potato wedges for us. I had never had sweet potatoes on the grill and they were excellent!

On Saturday, Matt and I registered for wedding gifts. We've been out of town so much lately and kind of putting this off, but we finally got through it. Of course, it was a long day of looking at things and deciding what we needed. Matt was in charge of the gun, so at least he wasn't too bored.

Some people from work were celebrating their birthdays by doing a pub crawl on Saturday, so we met up with them at the last stop, Brownstone. We actually got there a little earlier than they did so we could grab dinner. Brownstone has awesome food! It's always interesting to be relatively sober and meet up with people who have been drinking all day.

Fuzzy self-taken picture at Brownstone


Matt doing a b-day shot with Georgia... can you believe they actually had a shot on the menu called the "Georgia Slut"??? Very funny!


We stayed out for a bit and then came home and crashed.

Sunday, we spent a lot of the day relaxin' on the couch. We met up with the half-marathon runners at Flat Top Grill for some brunch. So good! Congrats to Erin, Ross, Brett, Keely, Brian... and anyone else who made it the 13.1 miles!