Tulle, tiaras, and registries - oh my!

The things you put up with when your best friend gets engaged...

The top 10 things I learned over the weekend

1. How to play Rook (very fun game!).
2. Never to mention Romper Room in the company of those younger (it just reveals your age).
3. Guys do not know how to put on sun block, or a t-shirt for that matter.
4. When guys don't understand something, they chalk it up as "a girl thing."
5. Always arrive at a camp-out after the rain is over and the sun has had time to dry things out.
6. Being a chaperone totally rocks! You get to do all the fun things, but have no one to tell you what to do. =P
7. Revenge may be sweet, but unprovoked attacks on the enemy (a.k.a. guys) is so much more fun!
8. Two girls are better than one when it comes to attack strategies (thanks, Olivia and Emma).
9. Girly-guys are too easy to tease (it should be illegal).
...and last but not least
10. If you want to attract attention on the boardwalk, don't wear a bikini like everone else, wear jeans, sneakers, and most importantly, a towel wrapped around your head so that nothing but your nose shows (just ask Drew).

Wait, I forgot my memory at home!

Apparently, cell-phones and PDAs are to adults what video games are to children - brain cell killers. We no longer need to memorize phone numbers or anything else for that matter. We can store everything from birthdates to grocery lists on our little technological gadgets and then forget about it until the information is needed. Because of this phenomenon, people rarely try to memorize anything on a daily basis. To use a phrase I learned in my childhood, if you don't use it, you'll lose it. That is exactly what has happened to our society. The ability to remember the most basic things is disappearing. And the youngest are the worst off according to the recent study.