I've had a card that would get me into the Jive & Wail dueling piano bar without a cover charge for nearly a year.  Tonight, Mike and I went.  It was lot of fun, especially after we got a table.  There were a BUNCH of bachelorette parties there tonight, and one by one, they brought the bachelorettes up onto the stage to pseudo-embarrass them.  My ( Read more... )

Note: This title is to be read in a sing-song voice, ascending then descending ( Read more... )

For those of you who are unaware, St. Louis' Mardi Gras celebrations are second only to New Orleans in the United States.  Places around here start partying Friday night and don't stop until Tuesday night, so tonight.  Anyway, this is the second year in a row that my friend Liz has had a Mardi Gras dinner party.  Why our group of friends gets ( Read more... )

On Friday, I was laying in bed at 8:30 in the morning, in that state of half-awake and yet still half-asleep, debating with myself whether I should get up and make the alarm shut up for good or snooze a little longer, when the apartment phone rang.  It was the General Manager of Coldwater Creek calling because there was a large shipment coming in ( Read more... )

My friend Sarah got engaged in September, and she asked me to do two things for her wedding: sing, and design the wedding invitations.  I have no problem singing for her wedding, but at this point, I'm about ready to throw my hands up in frustration as far as the invitations are concerned.  It took me until December to get her to to tell me the ( Read more... )

One of the originally planned activities for the conference was attending the "opening concert" at the Lincoln Memorial the Sunday before the Inauguration, and for some reason the word came down from on high that we couldn't go.  The official reason was that it would be "too cold."  This was stupid because it was actually warmer that day than on ( Read more... )

The title comes from Marcy's post demanding a post from me.  It would not be what I would title this post on my own.  I would call it "The Inauguration Experience" or "A Politically-themed Exercise in Sleep Deprivation."  I don't really know how to put the 9 days I spent in the DC area working the conference into a blog entry.  I want to preface ( Read more... )

I had been planning on doing a post that was a "year in review" ennumerating all the reasons why 2008 SUCKED (these ranged from deaths [5], illness, to job issues and more) but I stopped in the middle and eventually lost the post.  I have since realized that it is probably better that the post got lost into the depths of cyberspace.  If it hadn't, ( Read more... )

I was working a catering event tonight and a white version of Tina Turner was in attendance!  It was as if Tina Turner from the mid-eighties had stepped into a time machine just to come to this construction company's Christmas party.  I was hanging people's coats for them, and this woman arrived wearing an ankle-length coat.  All I could see was ( Read more... )

So there are a couple of people in my church choir who royally piss me off.  They have an aura of arrogance about them and speak and act as if they are the best musicians in the whole wide world, as if they are God's gift to music and to the world.  For months now, almost years for one of them, I just thought that they pissed me off because they ( Read more... )