parties.

my shower and bachelorette party went off without a hitch. no drama, no awkwardness. no weird sentimentality or embarrassing moments either. just girls having a good time.

i did spend several hours by the pool and am still recovering from the sunburn (i haven't yet become attached to the spf as i should). also, at some point on sunday i lost my voice, which i am blaming on allergies because if it was due to my determination to talk over the loud music, my attempt at singing at the karaoke bar, or god forbid, my intake of alcohol, i'd be over it by now.

i do remember the entirety of the bachelorette party, which includes the parts where i attempted to sing "total eclipse of the heart" with 3 other girls and completely botched the words in the first verse; where i attempted to dance on a giant speaker and was removed by a guy wearing boxers and a tie (who, by the way, stole my pink garter that said "bachelorette" and immediately took my place on the speaker, wearing my garter on his head, and never gave it back); where i moved to dancing on the bar (which was apparently more appropriate than dancing on the speaker); where i ran into a former basketball player from my college, asked him what he's up to now, and bragged to the basketball player that i was going to call my fiance and brag to him about my conversation with said basketball player; where i ran into two old, old frat guys i used to hang out with when i was a freshman in college; where i slurred over and over how much i loved the BM who was driving us home for being so kind as to drive us home, considering she absolutely does not drink and had to tolerate my dumb@ss drunkenness; and my favorite: the part where i met some guy from new zealand and realized the only thing i know about new zealand is that they filmed the lord of the rings movies there -- my completely numb brain could remember this fact but could not remember the name of the damn movie. lord only knows what i said to the guy, because all i remember is him repeating, over and over, "it's not australia!!"

as i relive these moments in the sharing, i remember why people tend to black out when they drink, and wish my own brain could have been so kind.

i'm sure some incriminating pictures will surface soon enough, as i did not bother to carry my camera around, knowing i would have either forgotten i had it, or lost it altogether.