second lady & secretary of state.

we did our secret santa gift exchange the other night. and guess who mine was... (drumroll please...) Ethel (SB)!!! she got me some bomb gifts, but i will have to say that the best one is the mouse pad. it's a mouse pad that u can insert pics into. so, she used her talent of photo-collage-making and made me a collage comprised of:

1) a big pic of us girls from secret santa 07

2) about 4 or 5 pictures of t.i., some without a shirt on

3) a teeny weenie tiny whiny picture of me and adrian, with an itty bitty heart around it. lol haha

it is sooo cute i love it. everything about it. the pic of me and my girls-love it. the pic of sexxy ass t.i.-love it. but what cracks me up is how teeny tiny the pic of me and adrian is!!! lol. i'm gonna post it up so y'all can see it.

we did our thang exchanging presents, got some good ass gifts. and we all gave each other lil bonus gifts cuz we sweet like that. then a photo shoot (thanks carol).

here's the one of us posing like we're friends. not soldiers.

then on to dinner at cheesecake. good food and good times. one memorable moment: we were talking about jackie O because carla had a cute classic dress on that reminded me of her. then ethel said, "Oh ya, she was da second lady right?" cracked us up!!! soo funny.

another memorable moment: when christal put her new glasses on. all of a sudden she transformed into this studious, sophisticated genius. im not saying she aint smart without her glasses on, cuz she is a smart girl. but it was sooo funny with her glasses on, i guess we aint used to it yet. she was staring at the check, intently looking at it with her new smarty pants glasses, helping cindy break down the check and calculate how much we owed, including tip and tax.

wait--actually no. instead, she was looking at the check and pretty much repeating every word cindy was saying. it went like this. cindy: "everyone owes ten dollars each." christal (looking smart with her glasses): "okay...ten dollars each..." that shit made me laugh so hard i cried. so did carla. we started clowning on her, calling her treasurer of state. or secretary of state. one of those. why were we talking about political figure terms so much?

here we are before we ate. oh, see the olive oil? well we ate that with our bread. and ethel wanted some soy sauce to put in it, but we opted for balsamic vinegar instead. i don't think the soy sauce would have been so good.

here's our yummy food.

dayummm ethel. fernando, you are one lucky guy. look how sexxy she looks. oh and thanks for not agreeing to ethels idea of shaving your head and impersonating t.i. wearing just a bow and singing "whatever you like" for my christmas present. i really appreciate it. wow. mental images sometimes seem so real. lol.

and u cant eat at cheesecake without getting cheesecake. here are the peppermint and white chocolate raspberry.

oh and we found out that mark has been secretly designing his own line of jeans. how could we not know this? it was even advertised on the back of our menus:

thanks for all the gifts girls, i love 'em and i love y'all too!!!