Meet The Girls
Thursday, November 30, 2006 at 11:43PM 
Emi, Lee, AMW, Jill, Rachel, Meg, Genevieve, Emilie & Sally... "The Girls"Have you met? No? Let me introduce you…
May I present…: The Girls
This is my crew, my posse, mes amies, amicis, muchachas, etc…this is the pack I roll with – happy or sad, thin or flush, sickness and in health. College, high school, bus buddies, colleagues – what have you. They’re mine, and since my sister’s so far away, they are my chosen girlhood family. Tonight they took me out to kick off the big weekend of 30th birthday fun…Dinner at Little Star pizza, followed by drinks at Nopa. Yes, we’re hip and in-the-know.
Pizza BeforeMeg did the organizing, and she and I were happy to introduce everyone else (since they hadn't been there yet) to the delicacy of Little Star – the best pizza in San Francisco – and no one was disappointed by the choice. I love hearing things like "Is this place new?" or "How long has this been here? It wasn't here when *I* lived in this neighborhood..." Old friends met newer friends, and again I was smugly pleased at finding that both old and new friends got along together just fine. We even agree on what wines and pizzas to order.
Pizza AfterThere was even a delicious slice of Philly-Philly cheesecake – can’t get much more cream-cheesy than the Little Star cheesecake…and mine had a candle too! (FYI – No Chileans were harmed in the wish-making on this birthday event.)
I was truly surprised when The Girls presented me with a little present, and as all girls know, the best gifts come in little boxes. All at once I was presented with a tiny brown box dwarfed by a cute red bow. Immediately, I get excited, but Jill checked me: "Don't get riled up - it just condoms...flavored condoms..." Har dee har har. As the bow fell away, I noticed the glossy letters spelling “Jonathan Adler” across the top…no, it couldn’t be true…but yes. The Girls have made the “Happiness” pillow possible.
The GiftI remember someone saying: “Blogging has its privileges.” I won’t deny this, but that was never my intention in the Thirty Things for the Thirty Days of Turning Thirty…Besides, Meg thinks I should get the Disco Girl pillow instead… “It looks like you!” I cannot wait to engineer a shopping day along Fillmore Street with these same Girls to actually make the purchase. We’ll stop in Kiehl’s, Marc Jacobs, Shabby Chic, and finally Jonathan Adler – after which we’ll pop into Bittersweet for a Spicy hot chocolate. (Spicy – because it’s made with a little bit of cayenne that makes your mouth say: “Oooh, wow – OW, Ouch!” Yes, it hurts a little bit, but you can’t stop drinking it…) The gift was accompanied by a card The Girls all signed that read “Sagittarius Honest Jovial Optimistic Idealist” – sounds familiar. I said I wouldn’t cry, but I almost did when I read what they had written to me…
Lee = ChicLast drink of the night for me was Nopa’s delicious Elderflower Gimlet: sublime. Jill, Meg, and Lee went with the French 75, another Nopa favorite, while Sally chose the Ideal Cocktail, which we agreed tasted like the Chinese herbs I get from my acupuncturist. Yet again, old friends and new mixed and mingled into a melee of wonderful girlishness celebrating my birthday.
Oh how I love them all! The girlie, the chic, the potty-mouths, the humor, the booze-hounds, the pizza-gobblers, the dirty jokes, the shoes, the handbags, the ladies... With Girls like these, who needs bachelors?
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