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Monday, November 10, 2008

Showered with Frisbee Love

Everyone signed the back of this disc decorated by Waldo (who also made the invites and used the final pages of her photo album gift to scrapbook about the party as it was winding down, which was pretty impressive.)

No wonder brides get more excited about weddings than grooms do: we get an extra ring AND an extra party. Forget waiting until the wedding weekend for partying and gifts, we also get a bridal shower beforehand. And thanks to my generous and geographically widespread friends and family, it looks like I'm going to have two or three. I feel very lucky and excited.

My friends from Hydra - aka the University of Virginia Women's Ultimate Frisbee Team, the #1 team in Virginia and Tennessee and one of the best decisions that I made last year - were ridiculously on the ball (on the disc?) and threw me a bridal shower the first weekend of November. We started by consuming large amounts of delicious food - and I learned that the best dip recipe comes from the back of a cracker box. Then the girls took slips of paper and compiled marital advice and pillow talk for me. By pillow talk I really mean frisbee euphemisms; there is a lot you can do with the common frisbee terms "score," "deep," and "handle." (Attempts to use "dump" led to some interesting results.) Next Skinny Pete the skeleton stood in for Kyle as we played "Pin the Chore on the Husband." Krispy upped the ante by laying down her crutches to take a spin, and then Ducky and StaceMichelle showed off their two-person pinning skills. It was a good time for us, and probably for Skinny Pete as well: I imagine that decorative skeletons don't get much attention after Halloween.

The official theme of the party was "Martha's Secret." The idea was that gift buyers could think like Martha Stewart or like Victoria's Secret (or, as a number of people did, could combine underwear and kitchenware in creative ways). I really, really love all of the gifts that I got. They were awesome. Even the repeat or similar gifts were useful in multiples and made me impressed with the amount of Hydra ESP going around. The Bed Bath & Beyond registy seemed to be helpful too, though I have to warn eager registry watchers (and especially Pat who tried to claim them) that McVey and Henni snatched up one of the most amazing items: the monkey pot holders that we will use just as often as hand puppets. In other the-internet-is-awesome news, thanks to GoodReads - one of the best websites ever and a major obsession of mine; check it out as soon as possible if you like books and organization even a little bit - Gonzo and Krispy could stalk my bookshelves and find out what I wanted to read but didn't own. I am now the happy owner of Everything is Illuminated and Tim Gunn: A Guide to Quality, Taste, and Style. (For those of you who haven't encountered my girly side much you should know that I am a huge fan of Project Runway and its resident fashion mentor Tim Gunn, the man who brought us "Make it Work." He's an endearing gay man with fashion sense and an impressive vocabulary...how can you get any better, really?) I can't wait to read both when the semester ends.

So yeah, it was a really great party. As an added bonus I tagged along to practice afterward. I've been taking the fall off from ultimate - now that I'm out of UPA college elligibility it seemed like a good time to rest my ankle for a few months - and wow do I miss it, especially with Hydra. It was great to be out on the field with them again, and a perfect end to this celebration.

Thank you so much Hydra!

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