6 women, 4 stories

I noticed that Friday afternoon's most of hte BI and FM team go out for lunch, last week we went to Panera's and this week to Gramm's - gramm's is all about comfort food, Gramm's means Grand Ma, they say. We were 6 of us and when you put 6 women together, some stories are bound to come out, you like it or not, women share and talk.

Anyway, on our way to Gramm's I found out that K met her spouse on Match.com, hello! That is so .....(I don't know hte word for it), she is a petite, feeble, sweet, pretty girl with an Italian last name but who's been married for 2 years. Then once we reached there, sat on a round table and the smell of comfort food was enticing, someone started talking about Anchorage, Alaska, K then mentioned that her sister lives in Fair Banks, Alaska, wait ! That's not all there in no water and electricity. Right now, she's “baby-sitting” 30, yes, 30 sled dogs, she brings water to them in buckets, and feeds them meat and stuff. Her (K's sister's) bf builds cabins there, ok, it's only like -3 degrees there, and it's dark most often, so go figure. This is more interesting, since they don't have showers in the houses, the Laundromat and the Video Store has two showers each….OOOOkkkkaaay. Yeah, imagine that! You go to do laundry and decide you might as well take shower since u r there, the shower is yours for 20 minutes, people! I find this so adventurous, this is hardly scratching the surface, I believe she even lived in Nepal for a year and somewhere in a town near a pretty beach in Puerto Rico, c'mon, it takes so much to be so gutsy, I so wish I could do that. I believe K's folks are also bitten by travel bugs long long time ago, so they think that K's life is so dull and boring since she hardly travels and she only thinks that she's “Normal”. Ha ha ha…what is normal ? Normal couldn't be normal if it wanted to….

So, then C starts talking about this wedding she has to go to of her first cousin's, which is scheduled after a month. She's amazed at how someone could have a wedding on Sunday, that too “around 3 pm” as it says on the invite. She thought that though it's none of her business, she thinks that couple is very immature to get married. Apparently, they don't want to live together nor get engaged and instead get married right away, and they feel that this way it'll be more exciting. Okkkkaay. Marriages are anything but….She also mentioned how that neither of them have a job yet, and that the groom is not welcome in her other cousins home because he stuck a play dough kinda thingie in the kid's hair and that poor child had to cut her hair to get it out, and he (the groom, u need to concentrate) thought they were joking about him not being welcome at their home. She then said they are only like 20 something.

So ofcourse, I replied “20's too early to get married”, well, C would agree but apparently she got married at 18, she's my PM, people, so I had foot in my mouth. Next time, just remember to politely nod without any stupid comments. Since we were on topic of weddings, I recollected an incident of a “Halloween” theme wedding party that was taking place in the lower deck of this dinner cruise I went to last year. The bride was a dressed totally like a slut, and the groom like a dirt biker and the entire party members were drunk and loud. Top that u all !

Oh by the way H was offered a vacation to disney by her folks, no she's not 8, she must be 20 something. Anyway, she refused bcoz she sensed that the reason they invited her was to babysit the nephews that they are taking along....ha ha ha. good one.

Meanwhile, somewhere at the Alaska story, the food arrived and the fries were yumm….

( P.S: Later when we were in a meeting, I had a mild panic attack that I'm not as involved in configuration of BI stuff as much as I was in my last job, and was trying very hard to concentrate. )