Work and play.... more play than work?

My job follows the philosophy: Work hard and play hard.

Spelling out G.A.D. (our boss' initials)

Yup, mixing play and work!

1st Annual Toast to No Smoking!
August 24, 2006
Andy surprised his wife, Patti, with a party celebrating her 1 year anniversary quitting smoking. Go Patti!

With plenty of balloons and candy cigarettes!


Patti demonstrating former smoking Patti....


Us, the "lab chicks", looking forward to our burgers and chili cheese fries. Yum!


Cheryl, Heather, and I went to the celebration and while there, discovered that Patti's stripper name was Raquelle Sparkle Jugs. Inspired by this, we decided to make up stripper names for each other. Oh dear... and soooooo, here are the results:

Lolita Spicy Hands


Fifi Luscious Golonger
(as in the frisbee term "go long!" thankyouverymuch)


Cheryl and I then used our brains to their maximum capacities to create Heather's perfect stripper name:


Bunny Juicy Lips A'Vroomvroom


And last, but not least....
Lorenzo Homerun O'Shageassy



Aw, aren't we proud?



Housewarming Party!
August 26, 2006.
A few days later, Heather and Christine celebrated their new apartment in Astoria and Heather's move from the sketchiest part of the Bronx to the comfort of Astoria. Yay!

So here are some pictures of that memorable evening...

First thing we were greeted with was this display of 100 jello shots prepared by our fine hostesses! (Keep in mind, they've only been out of school for a year!)


Heather forgot to also take a picture of the 25+ 15 ml Falcon tubes of Minderaser shots... They were a little scary because they looked like FBS. Here we captured a tube (with the camera on some crazy setting):
Much later in the evening, Heather drinking yet ANOTHER jello shot (with Cheryl looking on with envy as we cut her from any more liquor by that point). On the right is my hand with a Minderaser tube. Kinda scary, but cool nevertheless....


Party people...


14th floor girls!
Me, Maria, Cheryl, Christine, Heather


Old folks in one corner: Andy, Patti (who kept telling me that she was THE oldest person at the party), Me


Irem, glazed Cheryl, happy Me


Silly us


Orea is the sweetest! I kept hiding out in Heather's room to play with her kitties...
Awwwww.


To see more pictures from the party, click here.

Now, BACK TO WORK!!