Love these ideas

- Random Right-Now Cocktails
- The Skip-Dinner Party (which I've been having all along, without knowing it)
Happy New Year's Eve, whatever you're doing! (Mine will have just three guests: me, Ben, & Jerry. : P)

Love,
Ginger

How TO Be Rude

1) When you see someone behind you also coming toward the elevator, get in it really quickly and press "door close," so that you can get to your destination right away but the person behind you gets the doors closed in her face.

OR: Don't press the button, but just stare blankly at the person outside of the elevator, making no effort to hold it for him.

2) When you open a door for yourself, don't look behind you to see if there's anyone who you could also hold it for. That way it will get slammed in that person's face.

OR: When someone kindly holds a door open for you, just walk through, without grabbing the door yourself, as if the person is your doorman. Also, make sure not to say "thank you"!

3) When someone—especially someone you see every day at work or home—greets you at the office, in your apartment-building lobby, or in the elevator, you should make sure to completely ignore them.

Follow these helpful tips at your holiday parties this season, and you're sure to make an impression!

Love,
Ginger

Ok, how can I get this job?

And, perhaps even more importantly, how can I become Desirée Rogers? Even her name is fabulous.

Yes, maybe she has some impressive experience and credentials that I have yet to acquire, but I (oh-so-modestly) would like to think I'm already on the ball with this: "she was known for her glittering parties and for setting fashion trends."

Delusionally,
Ginger

Nerds + cookies = awesomeness

A friend of mine just introduced me to this blog, and I was instantly smitten. . . . Mark my words, Ms. Humble is mere months away from her own bakery and book deal. Not to mention many inquiries into her photography services—her photos are gorgeous!

This is what I love seeing—someone taking a theme and/or passion, and just running with it wholeheartedly.

(And now, of course, I'm itching to throw a nerd-themed party.)

- Ginger