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Back to the Hamptons

Posted by plumpdumpling on June 2, 2011 – 12:00 pm

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So, I’ve been sick since Friday. I left work after lunch that day and haven’t been back since, but I still managed to infect at least two co-workers in my wake.

And now today, twelve of us are going back to the house we rented in the Hamptons last year so I can infect even more of them! Despite having fallen on my head while Rollerblading last year, crying for five hours straight, and getting so sunburned I still have tiger stripes on my back a year later, I am so excited for this trip. We’re right on the bay, right across the street from the ocean, and right next to some people who stare every time a non-white friend shows up.

There’s literally nothing to do but sit on the deck with our feet in the pool or sit on the beach with our winterpale shoulders collecting sun. But not too much sun.

Check out the rest of last year’s photos here!

Long-Lost Videos of 2010: Part 3

Posted by plumpdumpling on January 24, 2011 – 12:00 pm

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Okay, okay, I know you didn’t watch any of the videos I posted last week. But these are great and seriously deserve to be seen. Well, the second one, at least. The first one is purely fish porn.

Kamran and I spotted these guys in an Asian grocery store while in California last August. Of course I had to set them to Ween’s only good song.

Jack and I test the strength of my new bathroom walls against fart sounds. Because you have to know how much noise you can pollute the bathroom with before everyone in the living room can hear you.

Long-Lost Videos of 2010: Part 2

Posted by plumpdumpling on January 21, 2011 – 3:30 pm

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I know that people hate to/are unable to watch videos, but these are mostly for me.

Our poor, sweet German intern finds himself a Lucky Cheng’s drag show participant (“Ms. Tess Tickles”) during our company’s monthly dinner club. It’s long, but you guys, he dances.

Even when we’re on vacation, Kamran pays absolutely no attention to me. (This one couldn’t fit my “creepy boyfriend obsession” tag any better.)

My friend Sylvan tries to scare me my first time eating jellyfish.

Aaron visits from Australia and boldly sings Backstreet Boys at karaoke. When I ask if I can use the video on my blog, he says he sounds “like a really creepy old country/western singer” and then adds, “Of course you can use it.”

Long-Lost Videos of 2010: Part 1

Posted by plumpdumpling on January 20, 2011 – 5:00 pm

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Kamran teases me with seafood at the Bally’s Wild West Casino buffet in Atlantic City.

Horseshoe crabs get it on in the Hamptons this summer, and Chantee provides colorful commentary.

A friend who shall remain nameless tells a racist story, and I make a hilarious joke. Math! Ahahahahaha.

Disneyland: Part 1

Posted by plumpdumpling on November 17, 2010 – 12:00 pm

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It has been brought to my attention that I’m never being taken back to Disneyland again if I don’t post the photos from our trip while in California, so here you are, three months later.

We invited Kamran’s friends Gary and Diana along,

thinking that they might enjoy a trip to The Happiest Place on Earth™ without their two kids in tow. Little did we know that Gary and Diana are Disneyland experts and basically made our visit 100 times better than it would’ve been had we gone alone.

After following these fine folks all the way through Anaheim,

the first thing Gary made me do upon our arrival at the park

was stop by City Hall to tell them it was my birthday and get a special button that entitled me to an entire day of Disney employees being forced to joyfully wish me a happy birthday. Even the guys picking up trash were smiling and calling me by name. It really appealed to the famewhore part of me.

Then Gary ran around like a madman, picking up as many FASTPASS tickets as possible while the rest of us stood in line for the less-popular rides like the Jungle Cruise and The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh,

which was trippy as hell.

Pooh looks totally evil here, right?

It meant we were able to bypass the horrendous lines on rides like the Indiana Jones Adventure and Splash Mountain

and make little kids cry as they saw us jog past them and their weak little standing-in-line-for-more-than-an-hour legs. Kamran got a real kick out that, obviously.