Fri July 19, 2002 -
So last night was Carol's Baby Shower over at Aphrodite's place.
Generally Baby Showers are kind of crap, but this one was much fun, mainly because alcohol and popeye chicken was served, this is good Shower, yes???
Well I thought so. Although getting there was a major pain in the ass, especially as Mary Anne had decided that lugging TWO bottles of wine into the office was too much, therefore she asked me to pick them up. This normally wouldn't of been a problem but it was soooo sticky out yesterday evening, AND I had to pick up fairy cakes (you guys call them cupcakes, I prefer our version personally) from Magnolia Bakery.
So I decided that I would just bring some wine from our house, get my nails done, then head for Magnolia. Now I know this bakery is popular but good god, it's 4pm on a Thursday afternoon, don't people work? The place was jam packed, literally about 25 people all stood in this tiny little shop, all salivating over huge white chocolate cakes and trendy carrot cakes, it was insane. Of course purchasing fairy cakes is self-service, so there I am trying to squeeze past these two queens with annoying, yapping dogs (should really tie them up outside I think) while trying to keep a grip on my large bag with rolling wine bottles in, and also trying to delicately pick out these cakes without smudging my newly manicured nails. Oh yeah and by this time I needed to take another shower, I was soaked with perspiration, no people, horses sweat, women glow.
So by the time I get to Aphrodites I'm completely knackered. So I met Roberta, wonderful woman, loved her instantly. Sat and stuffed a Popeye thigh down my throat and then ventured out again to pick up a gift certificate from Toys R Us. Actually even though this is a not so nice Toys R Us in the middle of Union Square, they did have a rather fabulous display of "Lord of the Rings" dolls, all with full warrior fighting gear on, really cool...
So Tex Man 
was supposed to be the next arrival with his potatoe salad and as Aphrodite clearly pointed out, gay men DO NOT use plastic tupperware to transport food in, oh no he probably used one of his best bowls.
He doesn't arrive until nearly 7, the same time as the all important Carol, which was kind of annoying as it was supposed to be a surprise for her, but I think Janice and Denise 
had the let the cat out of the bag. Please, it's no biggie.
Carol did look fabulous, I think the pattern of her dress was toile, if so then I'm surprised she managed to keep it on without Mary Anne ripping it off her. As we all know Mary Anne does have a penchant at the moment for toile, so Carol was lucky to get out of the apartment alive really...
Aphrodite had managed with the money that we had put in, get for little baby Connor as he will be named, some fabulous little romper suits. I think they should make romper suits for mums as well, I mean new mums always look knackered and dishevelled so why not look kind of stupid as well, you know like a grown up Teletubbies or something.....
It definitely was a fun evening, the food was delicious and I did scoff down one of the fairy cakes, which was just divine and now I know why Magnolia's is ALWAYS PACKED.
It's funny actually because we didn't really talk 
"baby talk" that much, it's not that I would of minded, but because most of this lot are all in retail, they gossip about that instead. You know how long Steve Madden's term in prison is going to be and whether or not Kelly Klein is actually a lesbian. Actually not sure if the latter one came up but who cares.
I managed to stay sober, quite easy really, just lots of wine, but I didn't want to get mad drunk because I have the interview tomorrow with Mandi Norwood, so I need to keep my wits about me.
The night wrapped up about 10:30, I called Morpheus to say I was on my way home but as it was he was actually on his way out to The Barrow to shoot some pool.
Oh alright maybe ONE more drink at the pub.....
Yeah, right, stay sober huh???
The pub was in full swing, I was very happy to meet up with a couple of girls, one I know from the pub and her sister-in-law, who seemed at first a bit hard to talk to but she soon warmed up and we had a jolly good natter. 
Actually I've never taken pictures in The Barrow pub before, but I did have my handy digital camera with me and felt that it was time for the world to see my local scruffy pub.
As usual Ayla was looking delicious, although definitely more busty than she usually looks, 
but I'm sure no one in here was complaining. Also it was lovely to see Ki Ki, who looked great with her new shortish, brownish hairdo. I much prefer this look, her last blonde look wasn't very flattering. 
Also Ayla told me that she now has her fabulous Manolo Blahniks for her wedding day. I love a woman with style and the fact that she purchased a $600 pair of shoes to probably only wear once, definitely cool in my book.
Well it seems that my comment of not making it a heavy night went completely out of the window. You know you spend one part of the evening with a bunch of girlfriends that are sophisticated and quite proper, then the latter half is spent in the local spit and sawdust pub with another bunch of girls who are completely outrageous, sexy and couldn't give a shit about anyone. God I love living in this city, the variations are splendid.
Right well I think that's enough for one night, as you can see burning the candles at both ends is definitely not good for my complexion 