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Of course I've had a draft of a post waiting to be completed since the weekend. But I'll just scrap it all now and start with the most important piece: THE RED SOX WON THE WORLD SERIES!!!!!!

Friends Jim, Sam, Sean, Jenny and Dylan joined Jesse and myself for Game 6. As baseball and especially Red Sox fans are wont to do, we were very superstitious. "You have an empty beer, they got a hit the last time you had a full beer, get a beer!" "They dropped that ball because you went to the bathroom before, you better wait 'til commercial!"

Normal!

In the end, victory was sweet and we were all jumping around screaming. My parents Facetime'd in and we could see we were not the only ones celebrating! My mom, dad and his playoff beard were too:

On the call, as my parents waved around their celebratory champagne, I remembered that I had bought some champagne for the same purpose! Plus, pomegranate juice to make that RED! Here's Jesse making them for us:

Here is us still being excited, you're welcome:

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I shall save my Halloween costume posting for tomorrow... since I have a promise to myself to write here every day of November, might as well stretch out the good stuff.

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If you need something scary because it's Halloween, remember I used to live in a haunted house.

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Jesse left today for a tour that will keep him away until Thanksgiving. I'm glad our last night for a while was so fun! It would have sucked if the Red Sox lost and we didn't get to watch Game 7 in the same room. He was only home for 10 days, but the fall classic was a good background to all the time we spent together.  When he walked me to the subway at 7am this morning (our little ritual on his last mornings home), we said goodbye on a high note. Still riding that adrenaline from the win!

Sometimes without goodbye, sometimes without hello.

How was everyone's weekend? I had quite the fantastic one.

On Friday: we played boardgames.

Jesse, Andrew, Jaime, Jim!

On Saturday we went to a great beer garden - Studio Square Beer Garden - in Queens and played some more games, in celebration of our friend Nadine's birthday:

The place was a beer garden, but it had sangria on tap. And Sunday was Easter! In which my friends and I gathered for a long brunch, and I wore a special Easter outfit:

J.Crew Cardigan, H&M dress, yellow tights!,  combat boots (new favourite thing ever), and of course, my LAMB bag.

We ate at the Film Center Cafe in Hell's Kitchen, which has a great brunch deal, and delicious food!

Jon, Hagney, Tiffany!

Kelly and Jon!

After the three hour brunch in which somebody turned up Beyonce's "Single Ladies" and a waitress broke out the entire dance in the middle of the restaurant - we went to The Gaf, a bar. We were pretty much the only patrons when we got there at 5pm and started off with some darts. Jesse and I partnered up and kicked everybody else's butt! Yes!

Kells and I striking a pose. 

Some of my darts went astray. And almost hit Jon. WOOPS.

And here is me and Amber - though, I'm not sure why I am posing as such. I think I look funny - like, a housewife or something. I know I'm not describing it well. Anyway, I laughed when I saw this photo.

If you couldn't tell, my friends are awesome and I love them. I truly feel blessed to have such good people surrounding me. Also, hilarious people.

Jesse left today for tour. Sadface. He was only here for four days, but we really made the most of it. I got him to watch Friday Night Lights, so we spent a good chunk of time watching the first season either before going to bed or when we woke up. We saw Hot Tub Time Machine. We met up for lunch on my workdays. We played darts and danced. We went out to dinner. We had fun! And now I miss his mug again, of course!

But I'm super happy. I'm just happy and feeling great and optimistic and fantastic. Better stop writing like this before I jinx myself...

Smile.

Nicky Digital got some great pics from Erica's Trainwreck birthday party back in June! Yay Curbsiders :) My friends? Yeah, they're pretty awesome.

My world's full of people.

via El Adam's flickr!

How do I even begin to tell the tale of this past long weekend? Here is my attempt...

Jason flew in from St. Louis on Tuesday and so his New York adventure began. You can read all about it on his blog, and honestly he does a much better job at the details than I'm prepared to. I'm still quite drained from all the activity.

Last week, we spent most of our nights indoors because Jesse and Jason had done so much exploring during the day, they couldn't handle a night out at the bars. I was fine with this: I worked all day, and hadn't had a moment to breathe in a while. The usual joined us (Jesse, Jason, Erica, and I), our circle of friends, those who venture to Brooklyn from wherever they lay their heads: Kells, Gaby, Sean, James, Adam, and Furman...plus, Jason and Jesse's friend from Canada, Erin, whom everyone calls Tobes. I love making new friends :)

We played many a game of poker: and I didn't lose a dime. In fact, I consistently came in second in large games. Mainly lost to Jesse, of course, The Professional. But it was rounds and rounds of fun. We played late into the night, along with Mario Kart on Wii and our fave game of Celebrities.

Oh, and an EPIC NEW GAME CALLED CASH N GUNS. Yeah, CASH N GUNS!!! Thanks to Jason, for introducing Apartment 410, because I think our lives have changed. Here's a couple of pics of the fun:

Yeah, those are orange foam guns. Yeah, we're pointing them at each other. I definitely had a "should I be a lil' more PC?" moment, but, whatever, they're orange and foam. However, I had to warm up to pointing even a fake gun to a close friend...I know, weirdo. But still. Once I got used to it: I was bringing in the dough from our staged bank robbery. Yesssss! Oh, and then we added the Yakuza Gang additional game pieces - yeah. EPIC.

On the 4th of July, we had everyone over again, and Tobes, Furman and I saw the amazing Macy's fireworks over the East River on our Brooklyn rooftop with a slew of other party people from the other apartments. I'm not going to lie, I was impressed by the 3D cube fireworks. 3. D. Cube. Fireworks.

The next day, Jesse, Jason and I ventured to the Murakami Exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum. I was highly impressed. I've seen Murakami, but never really understood it. The exhibit put it all together in my brain - arranged the themes in my head to make sense of the pop art.

Then it was back to the apartment!

Jason and Tobes!

KELLS!
GABY!

Then on Sunday, we went to Coney Island! The fun was endless. Jason, Jesse and I rode the legendary Cyclone rollercoaster. Erica deemed it too dangerous, as it was made of popsicle sticks, but she graciously held my bag. I may have pulled a muscle or two on the turns, and Jesse made fun of me for keeping my eyes closed when we went down a hill, but whatever - I had fun. We at the original Nathan's Hotdogs and ordered large beers. Seriously, Jesse got a gigantic XL beer. And you can just walk around and drink open beers, whatever. We also saw a Brooklyn Cyclones baseball game, which was the best part of the day. I LOVE BASEBALL. It was a pretty exciting game, too, as we were down by one, and then homered to tie, and then we won!!! And guess who caught a victory ball while Jesse ran up to the front to try to catch one? ME! With Jesse's foam finger on, no doubt! I win.

Then we traversed the boardwalk and Adam got some "seagull" chicken, which Jason and everyone else enjoyed thoroughly. Erica enjoyed the ocean. I enjoyed the feeling of calm that had descended upon me in that day. I felt good. Until we got on the train. Let's just say the Brighton Beach stop on the subway has been marked with a memory by our group. And that's all I can say about that. In short, Coney Island ruled, and Jesse, Erica and I can't wait to go back in August for another ball game and with even more friends. I'm sure whenever Jason visits in the future, Coney Island will be on the list!

Yeah, these are sweet cozies, we know.

Gangster Cyclone fans.