80's parties, vacates, and drink recipes.

yes it has been forever!! or maybe it hasn't...i really don't know. i've been in intense group project/final papers mode. WE are at the time in teh quarter when i'm checking off to do boxes and new things aren't being added which is very cool.

so let's see, big news, big news....

tomorrow night is my 3 way march babies 80's birthday party with my 2 friends. here is the picture from the evite.
awesome, i know. I took my face from this pic of us pretending to surprise my friend before he actually got there. I figured we wouldn't be able to take a picture during the actual surprise part so we should take it before to memorex the moment. This whole thing is having a slight damper put on it by the fact that i suddenly got a wicked head cold today. I have been waiting to drink without judgement for a long time so hopefully it will all get better in the next few hours. I'm gonna do some 80's work out wear wiht a leotard and tights and a short baby tee and leg warmers and pig tails and a bright pink headband.

but onto bigger news!!!

we are going to puerto rico!! me, cathy, ivan, bob, and dan are going to glorious puerrrrrrrto rico. generally we tend to hate the kind of east coasters who fly to the bahamas for a 3 day weekend because it's cheap and close and stay in the resorts and carry around giant camera bags and are pasty and white and dont' look good in bathing suits. BUT this is so very not us. we are from california and the carrbbean is kind of far and exotic and although we are staying in resorts (on corporate america's tab!! thank you rich people!) and we are ethnic and turn a nice shade of caramelo when the sun kisses us. so the goals are as follows in this particular order

1. drinking
2. fagulousness
3. beaching
4. the yunque national forest
5. casinos

eeeeeeemagine!!! i am in the process of getting totes svelt for the occasion. Maybe i'll start doing my pilates tape again. The one good thing is that i have not gained weight, i have lost weight since being in grad school, now i just have to get toned. also i am now a size XS which really makes no sense to me because i have never been an XS so the clothing industry must be playing some mean joke and lyign to women making them think they are smaller than they actually are.

oh yeah and another sidenote, my friends and i invented the greatest drink this weekend. We were having a girls dinner in and singaporean jen cooking us a delicious meal while we listened to her jazz and bossa nova records. So at one point she said "i have lychee pronounced L-I-Chee!! we should make lychee martinis."

lychees? check
martini glasses? check
vodka? shit we had none
but wait, we had champagne!! check
ice? again double shits we had none.

so here is whta we ended up doing. we couldn't wait for things to freeze because we needed the liquor like right then and there so Jen found some ice packs (the blue kind) in her freezer. We cut them up to make smaller mini ice packs that would fit in the shaker. We took those, put them in a shaker, poured lychee juice in it, then poured a glass of champagnem a lychee, and some of the chilled lychee juice. It was super ghetto what with the whole blue ice fiasco and at one point jen had to say "if you see anything blue DON'T DRINK IT." but it was also very chic what with the whole champagne thing. Anyways you all should try it. it was like champagne on crack.