you make it easy...

so cathy has these friends that got married a few months ago, a couple of azians. i have never actually met them but i feel liek i know them via their wedding website. Being the total bitches that we are we mocked their love. we made fun of their proposal story of how

"I slipped my already prepared teal colored box in the trouser pocket and asked ___ to take a midnight stroll with me on Eagle Beach, just outside of our Amsterdam Manor. Under the majestic black sky with millions of sparkling stars, and Venus radiating from above almost as bright as the moon, I surprised ___ by first saying those three words that I've never said to anyone. And as ___ was overcome with pearls of joy..."

two ibankers finding love in Shanghai, pearls of joy, tiffany boxes, venus radiating, recorded duets they sang together on their website...it was all too much for assholes like us. Cathy actually went to the wedding in NYC and said it was quite fabulous, or so she was told. In true cathy fashion she was too drunk to remember. Recently cathy showed me their wedding highlight video. God i love these things!! They always have really cheesy music, and lame shots of "pre wedding jitters" and all that good crap. The wedding actually did look quite beautiful and more importantly, fun. Key moments: the removal of the garter - this has always creeped me out at weddings. like, hello TMI!!! the 3:00 minute marker when some crazy asian man does some spinning dance but the key part and the reason i am making you all watch this video woudl be at time stamp 3:23. Note the small dark asian girl throwing her hands up in the air and jumping. yup, that's cathy.



so here is what is funny. We initially mocked it, as we are apt to do. we had conversations like:

Cri: dude what is this song?
Cath: is this an azzzian song
Cri: i mean it's sexy...i guess? What kind of song woudl you have on your wedding video?
Cath: it's kind of a hard cuessssstion
Cri: my video would have multiple songs with like an intro, the crescendo, the volta, and then the dimunuendo. I'm thinking "just like heaven" and "how deep is your love" thrown in there. obviously it would have lots of shots of drunk mexicans doing crazy shit. and a shot of my dad singing mariachi and taking tequila shots with me
cath: you swear! I don't know, planning a fake wedding video is kind of hard

sometimes i would call cathy and sing to her "never been here. how about you? you smile at my answwwwwer." Point being we mocked it. But then as with all things i mocked i slowly started to love the song, sing it while riding the bus to school "you make it eeeeasssy, to watch the world with love." slowly i began to feel...pearls of joy. yes it's true!! Ugh. So today we had this conversation

Cath: what if i danced to that song at my wedding? i kind of want to
Cri: what if i dance to "smooth operator"
Cath: Ooh sade is so sexy! No but seriously
Cri: (me singing smoother operator in the background)

at 9:06 eastern stadard time we finally gave in. Over a phone meeting we decided to split the cost of the song and purchase it on itunes, that way we could forever feel pearls of joy at all times of day. I mean, i'm listening to it right now. Another interesting thing to note, the song is not in fact by an azian pop group, but rather is by the british electronica band Air, of "sexy boy" fame.

So i say to all of my readers, "How'd you do it? How'd you find me? how did i find you? How can this be true? to be held and understood." this is how you all make me feel.

DUBBS DUBBS!!! SIDENOTE AND TOTALLY OFF TOPIC. HAPPY BIRTHDAY SARA, a woman who truly makes it easy to watch the world in love.