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Post by LejaOMG on Jul 29, 2009 8:49:06 GMT -5
The wedding is next weekend, lol. You had my brow all furrowed like "who got married...?"
Right now I'm trying to plan the bachelorette party and broke heffas are giving me problems. I had all these fly ideas and folks are shooting them down off top because they haven't been acquainted with my plan-ation skills, lol
If I get one more email like "oh that sounds fancy, but i'm on a budget. It's a recession" I swear to beans we're gonna eat pizza and play spades in my dining room and I MIGHT spring for a redbox rental.
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Post by LejaOMG on Jul 29, 2009 9:43:33 GMT -5
Ok, "broke" is a frame of mind and I dislike being around people who possess it. If you think broke, you'll act broke, and you'll continue to feel broke (even when you're not).
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Post by BKupInHere on Jul 29, 2009 10:01:43 GMT -5
But here's the thing: I'll ASSUME ( correct me if I'm wrong Leja) that youve all had at least 6 months- a year until the wedding?
So how could they not KNOW that the Bridal Shower usually is thrown/coordinated by the Maid/Matron of honor & the Bridesmaids. I know in some cases the Mother of the Bride likes to participate,but its usually the Bride's girls whi do this.
With that being said...what did they plan for the bridal shower/bachelorette party?
Dont be surprised if you'll end up partying with the Bride-ALONE!
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Post by LejaOMG on Jul 29, 2009 13:00:58 GMT -5
They got engaged in December, finalized the party in Jan or so. It's not so much a matter of the coordination; I got that. But where's the budget coming from? Come ahhn.
For the bridal shower, the maid of honor, though well meaning, stretched herself far too thin, spent far too much of her own money (without consulting the rest of the party) and then expected us to retroactively reimburse her. I wanted to help, but seriously, she should have thought that through a little better.
Which is why I'm trying to actively involve the rest of the party in the bachelorette party decision-making. I just want to do something clever (not corny) and memorable.
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Post by QueenOH on Jul 29, 2009 13:17:30 GMT -5
Some places (bars, clubs) give discounts for bachelorette (sp?) parties
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Post by BKupInHere on Jul 29, 2009 13:26:49 GMT -5
I see. People mess up makig plans for OTHER PEOPLE to participate in without consulting those "other people". Sounds like she'll have to take the "L" on that one.
Queen's idea is good. Ive seen bridal parties rent a limo for the night and club hop
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Post by LejaOMG on Jul 29, 2009 13:33:22 GMT -5
So far, it's lookin like this:
1. Hors d'eourves
(Maryland Crab Dip, Fresh Salsa, Black Bean Dip)
2. Martini Mixing and Pasta Pairing at my home
(Martinis: Washington Apple, Bellini, Lemon Drop, Cosmo Virgo)
(Pasta: Mac & Cheese, Spaghetti & Meatballs, Lasagna, Fetuccine Alfredo)
3. Transfer to downtown
(the brokeness of the broads determines how we're getting there)
4. Salsa Lesson
5. Party and Scavenger Hunt @ Latin Club
(scavenger hunt: take a picture with various "guys" i.e. old man in the club, colored contacts guy...we'll compare pics at the slumber party)
6. Grown-up Slumber Party in my basement
(I really, really want to do personalized bathrobes, but again...broke broad syndrome. If nothing else, I'll decorate with pipe & drape to where the whole level looks like one big budoir)
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Post by Chal™ on Jul 29, 2009 13:36:49 GMT -5
I think i need to be trying to get to that party. um, the bride is my 3rd cousin oh her daddy side
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Post by LejaOMG on Jul 29, 2009 13:45:43 GMT -5
LoL. Oh it's gonna be fly regardless. I'm just tryna be a recessionista about the whole thing  The bridal party is also known as the church choir. These jawns are like mad churchy...and if you know me at all, you know what a big deal it is for ME to be calling somebody "churchy." Some are balanced, moderate and cool like me. Others, are afraid of alcohol, men and smoke. I was advised not to plan anything the least bit risque for fear the maid-of-honor would drop to her knees and begin praying for my soul on sight. Even my bar-hopping tour of Baltimore was shot down because of the inevitable abundance of sinners. I'm dead up. |
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Post by LejaOMG on Jul 29, 2009 14:41:10 GMT -5
Ok, so I just heard from the bride. She tried to "bridezilla" me real quick, lol. All I can do is chuckle to myself. Real talk, when it's my time, I'm not having bridesmaids. I'mma hire a ill-azz wedding planner to set up my shower, bachelorette party and rehearsal...grabbing my man, my minister 8 or 10 of our closest friends and hitting Tahiti or Bora Bora or somewhere. Honeymoon in undisclosed location.
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Post by LejaOMG on Jul 30, 2009 8:58:55 GMT -5
AKAs, please get your Basileus together. My mother came over my house this morning to tell me:
Ma: I heard about your soror!
*before I even knew for sure what she was talkin*
Me: THAT AIN'T MY DAYUM SOROR"
*then I thought about it*
Me: ok, wai'mi'n't, who?
Ma: IDK, Mickinzie or whatever. The jawn with the Blax in Wax statue"
(LOL!)
Me: "THAT AIN'T MY DAYUM SOROR"
Ma: *long silence* well...IDK, ya'll all in the same clique.
uh, no. Got enough ratchefy in my own organization. Don't need to take credit for ya'lls too, lol
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Post by LejaOMG on Jul 30, 2009 10:50:01 GMT -5
My new name for Damie is: Lovebutton.
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Post by T-Rex91 on Jul 30, 2009 12:42:12 GMT -5
AKAs, please get your Basileus together. My mother came over my house this morning to tell me: Ma: I heard about your soror! *before I even knew for sure what she was talkin* Me: THAT AIN'T MY DAYUM SOROR" *then I thought about it* Me: ok, wai'mi'n't, who? Ma: IDK, Mickinzie or whatever. The jawn with the Blax in Wax statue" (LOL!) Me: "THAT AIN'T MY DAYUM SOROR" Ma: *long silence* well...IDK, ya'll all in the same clique. uh, no. Got enough ratchefy in my own organization. Don't need to take credit for ya'lls too, lol Your Mom and Chal's sis should get a show on BET....LOL! |
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Post by LejaOMG on Jul 30, 2009 12:45:23 GMT -5
My mom would buss Kia tail EARLY if they were on a show together...
I just came back from lunch-break shoe-shopping. Got a pair that would've looked FLY with the outfit I wore to a party last weekend...I guess I bought them just to redeem myself. I foresee myself returning them. The other pair is funky and chunky...different from my usual point toe/stiletto routine. I look forward to rocking them with some short shorts and a tank top before the end of the summer
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Post by BKupInHere on Jul 31, 2009 0:22:00 GMT -5
AKAs, please get your Basileus together. My mother came over my house this morning to tell me: Ma: I heard about your soror! *before I even knew for sure what she was talkin* Me: THAT AIN'T MY DAYUM SOROR" *then I thought about it* Me: ok, wai'mi'n't, who? Ma: IDK, Mickinzie or whatever. The jawn with the Blax in Wax statue" (LOL!) Me: "THAT AIN'T MY DAYUM SOROR" Ma: *long silence* well...IDK, ya'll all in the same clique. uh, no. Got enough ratchefy in my own organization. Don't need to take credit for ya'lls too, lol Trini parents ALWAYS get ish wrong! Like the time my father said I was gaining weight and told me I should get a... ...BREAST TUCK!!!      |
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Post by LejaOMG on Aug 3, 2009 12:47:19 GMT -5
So the day before I left town, the bride sent me another list of folks she wants me to invite, a week out from from the bachelorette party...names and numbers, no e-mail addresses. So I actually called all these bamas and requested their email addresses for the evite (i know, i know...but it's 4 days away, can't risk a hard invitation). How many of them you think got back to me? You guessed. Narry one. So the bride sends me a text (while I'm still out of town) asking "when are you going to send the e-vites? My friends say they haven't received them yet." I meeeean, did your friends get back to me with their email addresses? What do you even say to a question like that?
Further, I don't see any reimbursement in my future for the expense to which I'm going to produce this event. I mean, at the end of the day, I suppose I can always write it off, but I'm a little saddened that none of the other bridesmaids feel the least bit obligated to contribute. The maid of honor (yes, the same one who planned the bridal shower and asked for donations AFTER she had spent all our money, so we couldn't decline if we wanted to...bootlegazzness) said she can't afford to contribute because she's unemployed. I told her she could come a couple hours early to help with the set-up; that way, I could cancel the help I hired for the day and ultimately save even more money. Apparently, neither does she have time to contribute in that way. My question: why the eff not? You just said you ain't got a job...
I'm over here making Party City runs on my lunchbreak, but other folks plan to just come and eat/drink my money. I said I'd PLAN the event free-of-charge. I ain't said nothing about absorbing all the cost. Heffas.
...and omg @ "Breast Tuck" LOLOLOL
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Post by QueenOH on Aug 3, 2009 13:28:41 GMT -5
Charge five dollars at the door.
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Post by LejaOMG on Aug 3, 2009 13:41:14 GMT -5
Funny you should say that...
I would be offended/put off at best-- appalled at worst if anyone charged me to attend a party, especially if I had to travel to attend. However, the bride and her friends are not as...how shall we say...etiquette-conscious as I and may deal with it just fine. It is not the least bit out of HER character to literally charge folks to attend a party in her own honor, but I doubt I have it in me to do such a thing
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Post by LejaOMG on Aug 3, 2009 15:07:29 GMT -5
Millenials in the Workforce- oldazzness in full effect
So I sent an email to someone on my team (who fancies herself my “supervisor” and is not, but hey…who’s counting? We millennials probably need to sit down and hush up somewhere anyway, right?). I asked her if she had a certain office supply (let’s say paperclips) because I didn’t have any and needed some for a project that was due. She, in-turn, emailed the chief office supply monitor (or whatever her job title is) and asked her to secure me some. Apparently, “paperclips” are standard issue for all employees, but apparently, as the new kid, I was supposed to figure this out on my own (after all, why should someone have to hold my millennial hand and tell me what tools I’ll need to do my job at the outset? Does it not make much more sense force to me to take the initiative to do it the wrong way several times, all the while wasting company time and resource before someone actually just gives me some straightforward instructions?)
At any rate, the most worshipful grand supply overseer granted me a magical card that allows me to procure supplies at this top-secret central supply warehouse here in the compound. I went, copped two boxes of “paperclips” (just to be on the safe side) and came back. The same jawn who occasionally tells me what-to-do (but whose rear I should probably kiss, which we millennials are so loathe to do) commented that she was out of “paperclips.” I, trying to be collegial offered “I picked up 2 boxes, would you like one?” She replies by email--- “Standard Operating Procedure - Usually, whenever someone on the team goes for supplies, s/he asks other team members if they need anything. - Just FYI.” Oh…so now that you’re disappointed in me for not checking your personal paperclip flow, now is when you decide to give me the scoop on this standard operating madeupazzness? Got it.
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Post by BKupInHere on Aug 3, 2009 21:16:34 GMT -5
Sounds like she hasnt had "any" since it last had her...she's probably home now,feeding her 15+ cats...
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Post by LejaOMG on Aug 10, 2009 10:34:33 GMT -5
I'm so thankful that this wedding is OVER...Now on to bigger and better events for which I'm actually getting PAID!
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Post by LejaOMG on Aug 10, 2009 13:25:42 GMT -5
Of course...things might've been better if my escort hadn't lied-then-flaked (not sure which order), causing me to roll dolo to my own LSs wedding...
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Post by DamieQue™ on Aug 10, 2009 13:33:25 GMT -5
Oh you're spying on him now?
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Post by LejaOMG on Aug 10, 2009 13:52:39 GMT -5
When you have sisters who got your back, spying on him isn't necessary. But I mean...if him wanna talk about it, him can speak up.
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Post by DamieQue™ on Aug 10, 2009 13:58:16 GMT -5
I'm just asking a question. I mean if "him" were to spy on you would it be cool - you know - under the auspicies of having brothers that had his back?
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Post by LejaOMG on Aug 10, 2009 14:08:02 GMT -5
"him" would never catch me in a sloppy azz lie. Nahmean?
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Post by DamieQue™ on Aug 10, 2009 14:19:06 GMT -5
Naw just a well manicured lie...
...but I digress, 10 digits, push 'em or bounce - either one's good
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Post by LejaOMG on Aug 10, 2009 14:21:16 GMT -5
done did all the digit pushing I'mma do, Cletus. IDK HowTF you gonna ignore me for two days then pop up out the blue talkin bout "call me" on some internet $hit. Come on.
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Post by DamieQue™ on Aug 10, 2009 14:23:27 GMT -5
Due process. Is that something they teach in law school or is that another one of those unicorns? You gonna assume you know what the deal is and YOU haven't talked to me? For real? You seriously wanna go back and forth on here?
Bet.
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Post by LejaOMG on Aug 10, 2009 14:25:44 GMT -5
Unicorns my butt. Your failure to answer the damn phone tells me what I need to know. Of course, if you got something else to say, you know what to do.
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