Or at least Texas Holly and Miss-Elaine-ous are cool like that. Thank you ladies for planning such a great event!
About a month ago my friend Jes sent me an email that read, “DFW Blogger Dinner Party planned for February 28th” and I replied immediately, “I’m in!” I mean you are combining 3 of my favorite things: Food, People and Blogging. How could I say no? The only thing more tempting would be a pillow fight with Giselle Bundchen, Heidi Klum and Tyra Banks.
When the date for the blogger party finally rolled around my best friend Joe came into town for a wedding and so I forced him to come along with promises of delicious food and fun people. Unfortunately for the price the food wasn’t all that delicious, but the people more than made up for it.
When Joe and I first arrived at the Grand Lux and we saw this gaggle of women all standing around I turned to Joe and said, “Do you want to stay or should we just go someplace else?” I was feeling a little out of place and that is when Texas Holly swooped in and introduced herself and then I met Jay and Jenny B and I was suddenly at home. In a group of strangers I need only a couple of nice faces to bring me out of my shell and then look out! Seriously, look out, because I have a tendency to try to dominate the conversation and put on a show. As Britney says, “There are two types of people in the world, the kind that entertain and the ones that observe.” I’m the one that entertains… or I try to.
At my table: Bianca, Jes, Laurie, Jean, Jenny, Anything But Nice and of course Joe. We had a great time talking about everything and nothing and then the ladies at my table started hovering together and talking about Twilight – here is where I piped up and said, “My name is Edward!” – what I didn’t divuldge was that I am also a Vampire and that the Twilight series was based loosely on my life.
At the end of the night I zipped down to the other end of the table and met Natalie and Dorsey and a few other cool ladies. I think part of the reason I feel right at home with a group of ladies is that I have two older sisters and I graduated from Texas Woman’s University and because women like me. I always smell like chocolate and I look huggable and women like hugs and chocolate.
Photo is courtesy of Jenny B.
It was very nice meeting all of you ladies and gentleman. I hope we can do this again soon!
P.S. Jean left a comment and so I have updated her blog site address! Yeah!
I had a great time Ed even if you did forget my blog url
Thanks for putting up with our impromptu Twilight party.
You really went to Texas Women’s University?
Great to meet you Eddie! hopefully we can spend some more time at th next one, assuming the women let us come back!
I would have replied directly to your email, but you still have your no-reply status…here’s a link if you want to fix it.
http://halftimelessons.blogspot.com/2008/11/here-is-how-its-done-4-make-your.html
Jay
Eddie, I’m so glad you stayed. I wish I’d been able to talk to you more, hopefully next time. And you better be there next time too! : )
And you are so right, us woman do love hugs and chocolate!
P.S. I went to UNT and used to love to go to the library at TWU. And the campus was just so pretty in places…
It was fantabulous meeting you!!! I’m so glad you came down and got to hear my story about my son and daughter. hehehe Next time I SO want to have a round table for like 50 people or SOMETHING hehe I need to meet/mingle with more of you all!! hehe
Once again, I am glad you came, stayed and entertained. You were definitely a highlight. I hope to get to know you better by stalking your blog, and hopefully we can become real life friends too.
I was at the table beside yours! It was so much fun! I hope we can all do this again
It was so fun meeting you. I am so glad you came. I loved your idea of having musical chairs and meals at the next event. Genius.
We will be better prepared next time…we would have been thrilled to get 10 people and were completely blown away by 30.
What a fun evening!
Anything But Nice is Colleen from anythingbutnice.blogspot.com.
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