Bachelorette party

[jethrien]

Thanks to some lovely friends, I had my bachelorette party this past weekend.


We started off with a picnic in Central Park. Absolutely perfect day for it. Katertoticus had intended to make whipped cream by shaking heavy cream in a jar. While previous tests had apparently been successful, events conspired against us. When we opened the carton, the cream had solidified. Curds, with a little bit of whey. It smelled and tasted just fine, so we tried shaking it anyway. It turned to butter. So we had sweet butter and blueberries. The texture was a bit odd, but it tasted just fine.

We went on a traipse down Fifth Avenue. Went into a couple of the top-line department stores that I'd never been in. I fell in love with a jacket (silk, looked like a modern interpretation of the top of a kimono) - $1,443. Umm, no. We did discover an intriguing tea house in the basement of a Japanese department store.

We stopped in Sharper Image to play with the massage chairs. And discovered the iJoy Ride. It's sort of a mechanized saddle thing - you straddle it and it rocks around and you try to not fall off. Allegedly, it "strenthens core muscles". Actually...it just looks vaguely...not right. Ride 'em, cowgirl.

The Labor Day parade got postponed, so we also got to see a bunch of very impressive metal floats made by the sheetworkers' unions, and some less impressive marching bands wilting in the heat.

We went to dinner at Dallas BBQ - the one up by trinityvixen and feiran has much better service than the one we usually go to. The plan had been to go goth clubbing afterwards. But the club we were going to go to suddenly stopped being goth on Saturdays, and, well...there had been too many margaritas. Those of us still standing had a nice little dance party in trinityvixen and feiran's living room instead, and played DDR and hung out. Eventually, this devolved into watching some kind of crazy martial arts movie that I fell asleep five minutes into.

Dim sum for breakfast.

All in all, it was a really nice weekend. I got to have lots of my favorite people in one place, and we had a really good time. Thanks, guys.

Comments

[ecmyers.livejournal.com]

Thanks, guys.

Surely you mean "ladies"? :P

[jeths-mom.livejournal.com]

Sharper Image has a new type of "Forbidden Chair"!? The underage kids must be lined up around the block waiting for their 18th birthdays so they may be permitted to "ride 'em".

[freekofnature.livejournal.com]

You know, a few years ago Mattel came out with a motorized "Harry Potter" edition toy broom. It had a vibrating battery powered motor in it that stimulated the experience of flying around on a broom in the Harry Potter book series and movies! Well, pretty soon they were prosaically "flying off the shelves" in the toy stores and the Mattel people were mortified when they discovered the reason! It seems that underage teenage girls were snapping them up for a most "stimulating" experience that had absolutely nothing to do with the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry! Seems they were reverting to the original usage of brooms that supposedly witches adopted in the Medieval period !!!
Mattel had them pulled off the shelves and recalled them soon after...

[jeths-mom.livejournal.com]

That's hysterical. I was referring to an experience Jethrien would remember when our family was in NYC for a play and wandered into a Sharper Image, where her brother, who was about 13, was asked to please leave the chairs because no one under 18 was allowed to sit in them. We all thought it was the dumbest thing we'd ever heard, but it could be something like the Harry Potter brooms....

[dushai.livejournal.com]

...a most "stimulating" experience that had absolutely nothing to do with the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry!

Clearly you haven't read the fanfic. :)

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

...and trinityvixen took a video on her cellphone.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Which I will, with great restrain on my part, not be showing to the web in general. I'll just make sure I e-mail the file to you and chuckro.

[maydove.livejournal.com]

It sounds like it was a lot of fun! I'm sorry I couldn't be there. It was a combination of being sick and having to write a paper due this week.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

It's ok. You were missed, though.

[tigermelp.livejournal.com]

I remember making butter as a school project. We each had to bring in a baby food jar, and then the teacher gave us each some cream to shake. We were also making a big pot of grape jelly (I think this may have been a unit near Thanksgiving about colonial life). So we had crackers with our own butter and grape jelly on them at the end of the day. :)

Whipped cream can't be made in a jar, I don't think...it requires a lot of air that a jar wouldn't have.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

We did that too.

Apparently, the key is having about half cream and half air in the jar. The intention was to do so here, but the fact the entire carton fell out in one squishy lump made this problematic.

[tigermelp.livejournal.com]

The cream came out of the carton in a squishy lump?? That does NOT sound good.

[jeths-mom.livejournal.com]

I think they took the cream on the Sharper Image chair ride before they tried to make whipped cream. Now this bachelorette party is beginning to sound more interesting.

[tigermelp.livejournal.com]

Yeah!!!

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

But it wasn't spoiled. It was just fine, actually. I think the carton must have gotten shaken around a lot in transit.

[tigermelp.livejournal.com]

Your mom tells it better. :)

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

She does. She's cool like that.

[hutubachick.livejournal.com]

Sorry I missed all the fun :) glad you had a nice time though!

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry you couldn't make it. Are you feeling any better, at least?

[lyriendel.livejournal.com]

Sorry I couldn't make it either. At least I got a whole mess o' coding done. I better get to go to Rome for this. I've never been to a bachelorette party before, sounds like it was a blast.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Neither had I. :)

[maydove.livejournal.com]

This is a long shot, but are you submitting something to the IEEE conference in Rome?

[lyriendel.livejournal.com]

If by the IEEE conference in Rome you mean ICRA, then yes. :)

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

...my first bachelor party will be my own. And I suspect it'll be a rather atypical experience.