Quantifying the Qualitative. I heart my life.

It has occurred to me that I have yet to blog-ument my weekend.  I could tell this in story format but I would probably miss all the really good parts.  Like the freshly scrubbed hulls bobbing in the water, sparkling in the sunsets, guarding the wind-swept beaches rife with endangered birds nesting in the dunes...  But those things…  We’ve all seen those things before.

 

So instead:  My Memorial Day weekend started at 5:30 pm on Thursday as I housed a frosty brew at the Clam Shack across from the Fire Island ferry.  It didn’t end until Monday at 10pm when I downed my last Budweiser on a rooftop deck in the Lower East Side.  All with the people I love.

 

Everything in between can be summed up in bullets.

 

• 10 cases of beer
• 2 cases of liquor
• 1 case of wine
• 17 beds in a single house (1 on the roof)
• 2 tennis balls fished out of the ocean
• 3.5 miles to Cherry Grove via water taxi
• 17 hours of dancing
• 1 actual run-for-exercise (countless collective runs-for-exercise)
• 5 unofficial noise complaints from the cantankerous neighbors (1 visit approximately 2 hours into the weekend)
• 0 official noise complaints
• 1 well-loved beer pong/flip cup table
• 13 MILFs spotted in town
• 1.5 gas grills (18 packs of burgers, 16 hotdogs, 4 sausages, 3 jars of salsa, 2 tubs of pretzels, 1 jar of nutella, 18 limes, ½ a spatula)
• 2 trips to aforementioned cherry grove ( = 1 billion million gays)
• 5 old women, 3 gay boys, 2 straight girls, and a stripper
• 30 minutes of tanning on the beach
• 1 endless sci-fi walk with my favorite person
• 5 new facebook friends, 3 new friend-friends
• 1 investment banker (who mostly works out); 1 crazy-eyed girlfriend
• 357 guidos
• 5 family dinners
• 1 half-family…  ‘nap’
• 7 minutes under the house (getting a volleyball)
• 2 adorable dogs
• 23 body-shots
• 5 bottles of vodka, 2 bottles of jack, 1.5 bottles of tequila and 1 bottle of jager’s worth of shot-shots
• 15 people with 14 closer friends and 5040 minutes worth of new memories to smirk about
• 522720 minutes until Memorial Day 2010.