Girl's Weekend

I learned that no matter how many Jell-O shots you make, it's never enough. At least for girls weekend it's not. Recently my sisters and twin cousins descended on Okoboji for girls weekend. The requests for the weekend were as follows: 2 bottle of blue raspberry vodka, one bottle of grape vodka, the fixings for bloody marys, and Jell-O shots. Food was not on anyone's mind, but I always have plenty of potato chips on hand. Everyone arrived Friday evening and we started the weekend with Jell-O shots. We played card games and caught up. By the end of the evening 1.5 bottles of vodka and half a refrigerator shelf of Jell-O shots were gone. The next morning started with a few bloody marys and our day was off to a wonderful start. You can only imagine what the rest of the day brought, but in our moments of pure genius brought on by vodka and Jell-O shots we came up with the questions people ask to be nice but really just tick us off.

Not too long ago I spent a weekend in Omaha visiting a friend from college. We drank for about 11 hours total but by hour 9 one of her guy friends came up to me and made small talk for bit. Then he looked me in the eye and asked, "Why are you still single?" I believe he meant this as a compliment because I'm so charming but I've been asked that very same question 3 times in the last month and it's making wonder, for the first time in my life, is there something wrong with being single? After my moment of speechlessness passed I responded with what I believe is the appropriate response for public, "I guess I just haven't found the right guy. Let me know if you find someone for me!" I followed this with a smile and the subject would go away quickly.

The twins are both recently married and are tired of the question, "So, how's married life?" Asked by a married person. The proper response to this question is supposed to be, "Great. Thanks for asking." But the girls tell me they would rather respond with, "It's bearable. I have to share everything with someone and compromise on a daily basis. You're married. You know what it's like. Why would you ask such a stupid question?" They are actually both happily married to very nice guys. I guess statements like this just happen to come out on girls weekend.

My sister topped us all by saying her least favorite question to be asked recently is, "How are you?" 5 weeks before her wedding she called it off. She normally responds that she's doing "ok", but would like to just say, "Are you kidding? I'm the one who called it off. For the first time in 7 years, I'm free! How do YOU think I'm doing? I'M GREAT!!!" She said she tried that once but didn't appreciate the reaction of shock she got from it.

At that point we all agreed to never ask each other those questions and finished off the last of our Jell-O shots.