hahaaaaaaaaahahaha. first of all, unlike everything else in fishs life, choosing a best man is not a competition. its a decision ive got to make. yes the things you listed will be included in that decision but 'tolerance' and 'being the man' will not carry much weight LMAO.
as much as i would love to hold a 5 way battle royale to see who the last man standing is, this isnt the real world road rules challange.
who the hells wedding have you been to that the groom is not allowed to get too hammered? cathys maybe? i will be the drunkest man in the room, maybe the state!
this day has been coming for a while and we all knew it, but now comes the major questions that are going to require some tough decisions with the biggest one being who will be nicks best man? since you have no brother to make this choice easy we must lay out the contenders. I called vegas and here were the odds they laid out:
1a. Fish (35%)
1b. Erm (35%)
3. Steve (20%)
4. Robbie (7%)
5. Danny (2%)
6. Field (1%)
with that said, i think you need to lay out some type of competition to see who really wants this honor. if i were to do this here are the qualifications I would want in my best man:
- Confidence: When I think of best man I can only think of one thing: best man speech. In order to deliver a solid best man speech, the homie needs confidence, esp in a room where there is most likely going to be plenty of smoke shows in danielle's crew. If the best man lacks confidence and starts to stutter he is done, but if he kills this speech he is definitely getting laid by one of those smokes and becomes a legend.
- Accountability. The best mans next most important job is to hang onto the ring, so he cannot be a person who loses things. Living with Nick for many years i have made the joke time after time you would lose your head if it wasn't connected to your spine, so you need someone you can trust to hang onto the most important item of your life.
- Tolerance. Since you are obviously not allowed to get too hammered on your wedding day, you need your best man to do it for you. This is a huge responsibility because you don't want the best man to be stuttering and having problems walking and become a liability, so you need to make sure your boy can handle his liquor and not make a fool of himself on your day.
- Being the man. Your best man is a reflection of you. This is the guy who you say is your best friend and are telling ALL your family and friends "yeah this is the dude I chill with." If your best man comes off as a tool, then you look weak. If your best man is killing it, you look even better to everyone else.
haha it was all a joke. if u pick me i know i will deliver a killer speech. if u dont i will take it as a slap in the face and we will not be friends. just kidding, i will actually be happy i wont have to make that speech haha, so either way im good.
so my best boy from home (ruffalo) is getting married in october. me and him became real close senior year of high school and basically anytime we were home on summer or winter breaks we were with each other. for a solid 6 years i knew everything about that kid but then after we both graduated from college he moved to NYC and I moved to bmore so the time being around each other went from a good amount to one or 2 weekends a year. on top of that he met his finace after college so ive only met her 3-4 times. i bring that up because they have a website for the wedding and on that website there is a "relationship quiz" to see how well you know the couple. the reason i gave you the background story on me n ruffalo was because going into that quiz i was fairly confident i was going to get a high score being that this dude was like a brother to me for a good 6 years which wasnt that long ago. so i took the quiz (12 questions) and i probably guessed on 10 of them and got a high score of 4 haha. thats right 33% on how well i know my best friends relationship with "the love of his life" SMH hahah.
i bring this up because the next wedding with a close friend of mine will be, yup you guessed it, the DyMarca wedding! heres hoping i do better than 33% on that quiz!
damn fish you really nailed that haha. im impressed.
we first spoke at mias quarter beers when i had a fake id and took my pitcher of beer over thinking i was cool with a wristband. little did i know this freshmen also had a wristband and was not as impressed as i thought she would be.
would have answered drinking wine or hiking
pretzels made me laugh out loud haha. i would take pretzels over any candy. unfortunatly its unamerican to pass out pretzels, apples or pennies on halloween. i would def be happy to receive them thou
i would say thanksgiving, danielle would say her birthday month. well go with thanksgiving since thats for both of us and is the one holiday we spend time with each others extended families
no clue on the yankee candle scent. ill defer that to danielle. if ruffalo had input in that one he has changed alot since i last seen him
another one where if I was single this would have been the answer. BUT, not only does dominios not deliver to my apartment, but im a fan of ledos thin crust now
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nailed it damn you even included bruce
im not sure if you are some kind of psychic, amazing guesser or have a really good memory, but this actually true on a couple levels. the first time i talked to her (outside of my failed attempt at mias) was on AIM in west hall. then i asked her to come up to our village apt thru AIM and when she refused i said "Come up here dammit im trying to ask you to be my girlfriend".
im gonna give you a 10/12 but it could be even higher if half credit was possible. well go with 11/12. you know us better than I do!
haha i knew i would nail it! glad you liked it, but lets be serious we were around each other a good amount over the years and i tend to pick up on things. (DISCLAIMER: NO HOMO FOR THIS ENTIRE POST) lets think about this tho, i lived with you in west hall for a year, the village for 2 more, and then in fed at riverside for anouther 2.5 years, thats 5.5 years of living with u no wonder i barley know ruffalo anymore! anyway, ill break down some of the answers for why i know:
- the mia's night. this was early in sophmore year and you probably don't remember this but i was really close to dd early on and im pretty sure she broke up with her previous bf like the weekend before and i got her to go out with all of us. as the night was going on i was thinking maybe i should go after this girl but then danny distracted me with bacardi 151 shots which got me hammered (i think he even puked them up at the bar haha) and then you swooped in like a hawk on dd and the rest was history.
- wine was easy, 90% of DD instragram pics involve it, didnt you even propose to her in a winary?
- don't think i forgot coming home from the work/gym every night at riverside and seeing you smoke a bleezy and crush at least 3/4 a bag of pretzels and sliced apples. EVERY NIGHT. i was trying to think of the candy u use to crush but it didnt come to me but now i remember, SMARTIES!
- the arguing about dinner and dominos answers were also easy. every friday night she would make her rare apperance to bmore and it always started out the same way: me, motz n kearns pregaming and pounding shots and in the other corner dd bitching about not knowing what she wanted to eat or where to go...which is then how you settled at dominos. also the last time i think i saw dd was before you guys were offically back together and you tricked me into going to DC only to go to her place. and then on the way home from the club the 3 of us stop at dominos and i think she orderd 2 large pizzas, 3 things of wings and another 2 things of cheesy bread all just for the 3 of us haha.
- you really don't think i know what music you listen to? i shoulda threw in bieber also but he is more of your new thing.
- and finally the AIM answer. this was more of an educated guess. it was more a joke when i said thats how you asked her out but thats how people talked to each other in college so it wasnt much of a guess. thats really funny that you actually did it that way tho. i said AIM cuz that was 90% of how ppl communicated starting in junior high and all the way probably through senior year of college. forget asking for someones #, what is your screen name was more important. i remember the days of being bored during the week and just sign onto AIM and kick back on your compouter all night and see what happened. a lot of my hook ups started through AIM conversations (tearing up a bit). now we got facebook, gchat, instagram, twitter I can't even keep up. god i miss AIM.
seriously. its probably easier to hook up with girls now with all the pictures they post on facebook and instagram and direct messaging but its also means you gotta act more like a creep which is never a good look. with AIM it was just BSing and exactly what you said, start a convo and see where it went, if nothing happened just move onto the next one. now i sound old
kids these days have no idea what AIM is. im sure most high schoolers havent even used it. lets say we sent our last AIM 6 years ago which is even a stretch since thats our senior year. if kids are in 10th grade that means they would have been in 4th when we last used it. feel old yet?
also, got the save the date the other day, I wasn't aware this was on labor day weekend but no big deal. should I get a hotel room for Saturday and sunday or just sunday night?
hahah that's funny. I guess I did realize I was kinda the connection for you 2 but never really thought about it, why am I not the best man again?? I woulda killed that speech!
also, got the save the date the other day, I wasn't aware this was on labor day weekend but no big deal. should I get a hotel room for Saturday and sunday or just sunday night?
you want to be best man but also want to shoow up the day of the wedding?! well the wedding party got a bus for a winery tour for Saturday so most ppl are coming down Friday but you don't have to go to that. the rehersal and rehersal dinner are Saturday night so if youre not in town by about noon saturday Danielle may cut ur balls off and replace you with danny.
dude im in the dark here and never been IN a wedding so I have no idea how this stuff works. so what is everyone else in the wedding doing, getting a hotel Friday-Monday?
-- Edited by MFisH on Friday 20th of February 2015 06:26:34 PM
I talked to Danielle, you can just book saturday and sunday night. make sure u come down early on sat. I think most ppl are coming Saturday. except the families, best man/maid of honor, etc.
as of right now the courtyard is sold out Friday night anways
I already booked the room for that Saturday and sunday (did it last Friday), I thought we already established this? anyway, they told me check in is not until 3pm so I'm not sure how early you expect me to get there but we still have 7 months to figure it out.
bought our wedding rings yesterday. theres 3Gs out of pocket. my ring cost 700, which is more than i wanted (danielle) to spend. hers was 2300. big surprise there
yo so I know DD sent out this huge itinerary for Saturday and all but I was wondering more about the dress code. give me a breakdown for what I should wear and tell allie what to bring:
Saturday: we're gonna be gone from 1pm-10pm so only 1 outfit right? you think a button down and nice pants or will it be too hot for that? for the girls a nice dress?
sunday: tux for the wedding obv, what are we doing before that though?
Monday: are we going anywhere like a brunch or does everyone go home after they wake up?
Saturday: we're gonna be gone from 1pm-10pm so only 1 outfit right? you think a button down and nice pants or will it be too hot for that? for the girls a nice dress?
- ive been telling people to bring a change of clothes. we have to dress nice (button up and slacks) for dinner. its less about being hot and more about being in that all day so we can bring a change of clothes to leave on the bus.
sunday: tux for the wedding obv, what are we doing before that though?
- mostly a free day. i need to do some **** with my pops. ppl can just chill at the hotel or go out to brunch or explore cville until we have to get ready to head to the venue (around 2)
Monday: are we going anywhere like a brunch or does everyone go home after they wake up?
- there is a free brunch for everyone. just dress casual. not sloppy. casual.
got it. I'm not sure what allies plans are for Saturday, she's whining that its gonna be a long day, and from the looks of DD's email, I cant blame her for thinking that. she will most likely come along with us the whole time, but worse case is we will drive separately and she'll meet up with us at some point so i'll figure it out.
and yes, behind the scenes she's a huge whiner but when its game time you will have no idea so was bitching and she will have a great time like she always does.
also, what time we hitting the pool? I hope it stays open late for the after party!
yo I saw DD tweeted about leaving her job for something new or something like that, what is going on there? is she still doing all that traveling like her old job and is this a big risk for her leaving a good job?
she started a new job monday. not really anymore of a risk than switching any other jobs. she only traveled a couple times a year for her old job. the new one is based out of san fran so shes 100% remote (works from home) and the pay was higher.
this is a partner she was working with already and they made her an offer. she will travel to SF a couple times a year. otherwise she gets to make her own hours (mostly since they are 3 hours behind), WFH and is getting paid more are the reasons she switched.
nice. I thought she traveled a lot more, when I was at your house for the stillers game she was telling me she was coming back to seattle, then she had to go to florida, then you had that thing in mexico, etc. sounds fun and all but I'm not sure how much of that I could handle, I don't like having to do some major trip every few weeks haha but that's just me.
speaking of what I could and couldn't handle, I definitely could not handle working from home haha. I wouldn't wake up til like 10am, then 10am would turn into 1030am, then 11am and only get worse haha. plus with a tv in front of me I don't think I would have the tolerance to be able to sit at home all day and stay focused on my job, I need other people around me every once in awhile. i wouldn't mind working from home on Mondays so i could avoid feeling like **** until 2pm every week, but then again if i did i would prolly not wake up until 12pm and not do a thing all day so its prolly for the best haha
yeah i worked from home 2 days a week for a year and hated it by the end. shes also pretty social so well she how she adapts to not having anyone around. like you, i have a hard time concentrating and end up working from the couch or worse bed. we turned the dining room into an office for her with all the essentials. shes pretty good worker and always did well from home so i think she will be fine. i couldnt do it thou and I think wfh is a bit of BS in general.
she did travel a bit more earlier this year. she went to seattle, then we went to florida for vaca, then she was included on some kind of sales incentive trip to jamacia which we went to so it was kinda for her work but she didnt do work. were going somewhere in september -- either barcelona and mallorca or costa rica and nicaragua. trying to get all that traveling in before we have kids, KID!
that's the biggest problem I'm gonna have when I get my dog in may, I'm not going to be able to take any long trips with allie unless we find someone to watch the puppy. my hope is after a few months he gets trained pretty well to not piss inside and then eventually have allies parents watch him if we do every need/want to go somewhere. the only problem with that is her mom has 2 boxers and one of them is really old and they are afraid the older dog wouldn't act normal if a new puppy came around for a few days. FINGERS CROSSED!
