Recipe for Best Friends

We know, we know…. This can’t be real… TWO BLOG POSTS IN ONE WEEK?!?!  We realize that we’ve potentially given you, our 6-7 devoted readers, the idea that we only post once every 3 months so we decided to mix it up and post yet again!

Since our last post highlighted some reasons as to why we have such an amazing group of friends, we decided to be generous and give you something to help you make your own awesome friends.*  A lot of our bonding occurred and still occurs while we seriously discuss and argue and contemplate really provocative and deep questions of life.**  So we’ve turned some of our favorites into a list of conversation starters that we think all friend groups should use… They worked out pretty well for us.

1.     Title of your own reality show… starring you.

2.     What superpower would you have?

3.     Things you’d like to do blackout

4.     Craziest blackout story

5.     Most psycho relationship moment

6.     Top 3 people who would spear a terrorist for you

7.     Would you rather be attacked by a gun or a knife?

8.     Alter-ego name?

9.     What would you drop out of school/your profession for?

10.   Article of clothing you can’t live without

11.   How would you change the way you lost your virginity?

12.   If you had to choose a strange addiction, what would it be?

13.   Which famous person’s personal assistant would you want to be?

14.   Best meal you’ve ever had?

15.   Number one relationship deal breaker?

16.   Worst way you’ve been broken up with/broken up with someone?

17.   How much money would you eat your own shit for?

18.   Would you rather be pooped on or trached on?

19.   What would you amputate your leg for?

20.   Who would you cut off your big toe to sleep with?

21.   What talent do you wish you could have?

22.   Go to karaoke song?

23.   If you had to have a genetic disorder, what would it be?

24.   Would you betray your best friend for your dream job?

25.   If you could be fluent in only one other language, what would it be?

26.   If you could only cook one thing for the rest of your life what would it be?

27.   Is Hilary Swank hot?

* Sadly, your friends will never be better than ours… Sorry we’re not sorry. 

 

** Take note that anything in relation to physical therapy aka our future profession is not included in this.  Unless you count questions including amputations and traches.

We LOVE our friends because...

1.  Everyone has a role to play

• Classic Hannah: accidentally anorexic; being sketch
• Classic Laura: always 5 min late to the conversation; mimosas
• Classic Michelle: always using her outside voice; always down for anything, until she isn’t
• Classic Sarah: disgustingly photogenic; best original voices
• Classic Mia: language barrier; can turn anything sexual
• Classic Matt: forgetting where he lives; always being hungry
• Classic Brad: rock and roll; being his own DJ while at a party
• Classic Michael: aggressively cuddling with D; always wearing jeans that show off his assets
• Classic Wade: being pseudoprofesh; shitting on everything B likes
• Classic Sara: drunkenly aggressive, soberly sweet; can pull off literally any article of clothing
• Classic Jeni: telling it how it is; craigslisting at parties

2.  We are versatile. (Semi)classy and crazy, sometimes even in the same night. We range from grown up drinks at the Gin Joint to raging in cut offs and t-shirts decorated with duct tape.

     Classy...

 Crazy...

3.  We’re loyal

• We blindly hating each others nemeses
• We don't branch out cause we already have friends
• We roll deep where ever we go

4.  We encourage self-destructive behavior

• Lounging over the gym
• Drinking over sleeping
• Shopping over studying
• Nachos over salads
• Spending over saving

5.  We are literally the funniest people we know. No lie, people have told us we need our own tv show. Seriously, its currently in the works. Once Mindy tweets us back it’s a done deal.

6.  No topic of conversation is off limits

• HJs
• Hypothetical murdering
• If terrorists attack us
• Celebs
• Crazy girlfriend moments

7.  We require little to entertain ourselves. Sure we like to go out, but we can also sit around with no alcohol, food or tv and have just as much fun.

• A made up game including rock paper scissors and heads tails
• Naming game
• Caroms
• Conversation starters
• Self flattery
• Nail polish

8.  We make each other more adventurous

• Hot yoga was started
• Painting night
• Driving range lessons
• New foods and new recipes through family dinners, i.e. parsnips
• Trying to check things off our Charleston bucket list
• And Hannah went to the gym

9.  We all have different tastes. Our supposed interest in PT school brought us together, but really its things like

• TV shows: Game of Thrones, The Office, House of Cards
• Books: Divergent, The Hunger Games, Body of Work
• Music: Justin Beiber to Local Natives, The Expendables to Macklemore
• Beer
• Theme parties
• Big Nasties
• Any excuse for a family dinner
• The only thing we don’t share is our taste in men (except Jeremy Bronson) and salmon chinos.

10.  We are NEVER apart. Not only do we go to school together, we study, go out, lounge, eat and sleepovers on the weekend. Some of us even drive hours to keep the group together.  And we still like each other.

*Once again we are loudly brainstorming in a coffee shop. Pretty sure everyone in here wants to be our friend after hearing all these reasons why we are so awesome. Probably more so than our last post of all the reasons we are so pathetic single.

Who Do We Think We Are?

While studying in a newfound bakery (Brown's Court), Macklemore's Thrift Shop came up on B's playlist. Obviously that meant that we should take a break from studying and check his tour dates. 10 seconds later we were buying tickets to see Macklemore and The Roots in Philly. Most of the tour dates were overseas, so the 10hr drive seemed like our best bet to see them. These tickets were bought without concern for school schedule or funds.

We think we are badass ballers.

In reality, we are pretty much broke grad students, who have no right to be living the way we do.

But this way of delusional living is much more fun than the alternative.

All the Single Ladies

We want to start this post by saying that we have a great group of girl friends here in Charleston who are for the most part… VERY single (minus the cutest couple ever

Sarah, our mean muggin pal, and her boyfriend of forever Reel). 

Recently, our newly single friend Laura casually dropped that she just “wanted to start dating”... as if the rest of us have been shooting down dates left and right all this time.    She was confused by the scoffs  (have we mentioned how single we are?).  Laura's time being single has clearly been significantly different than ours.  This conversation has led to some soul searching over the past few weeks.

Despite the fact that we are the most awesome people you’d ever meet, we some how managed to scrounge around and find a few minor reasons as to why we are currently single.

Our List  

 

1.     Netflix asks us at least once a day if we want to keep playing.  We have both seen all the seasons of The Office multiple times-for the first four seasons, probably a minimum of 10 times. Each. 

2.     We consider good fashion to be oversized men's shirts and sweaters from Goodwill.  Also note that real pants are worn sparingly.

3.     We don’t think showering more than 3x a week is necessary.  Can you really be shocked when our daily activities include crafting, Netflix and consuming Diet Coke?

4.     Messy is quirky in our heads.  Our family and friends do not agree.  We still think we’re cute. 

5.     We incorporate knitting into party time with friends.  In the past week, we’ve been called grandmas more than once.  Whatever, it’s a creative pregame and multitasking at its best.

6.     We think we’re HILARIOUS… at all times…. To the point where we think we should have our own show. Like we want cameras installed in our homes to catch all of our witty banter. It’s still confusing to us that this is a con. Because we’re SO funny.

7.     We twitter blast irrelevant and outdated celebrities.  Enough said.

 

8.     We compliment ourselves on completely mediocre accomplishments, if not just things regular humans do. Like the dishes. Or making our beds. And of course showering.  Oh and being social and nice.

9.     The most exciting night of the week is watching 2 hours of The Bachelor. To the point that the week with TWO episodes of The Bachelor has been one of our busiest weeks.   Also, the only organized sport we’ve played in the past few years has been The Bachelor Bracket.

10. At any given point during the day, we’re either talking about celebrities, vampires or diet coke.  Sometimes we even combine and drink diet cokes while watching Vampire Diaries and have serious discussions on which of the actors have friend potential. 

Friend po-ten-tial: [ frend puh-ten-shuhl ]: the ability to complement, entertain and be entertained by our current social group

11. We have no interest in meeting new people.  Except Jeremy Bronson.

We would also like to point out that we loudly brainstormed for this post in a local hipster coffee bar and we’re pretty sure no one thinks we’re being ironic.

Our physical therapy class is really cute in that we like to hang out with each other a lot. Like A LOT. The weekend before exams, we decided to have a Secret Santa party with our group of friends as a study break and it was awesome! Everyone brought dips and desserts and we even had the Grinch himself show up (and by that we mean our friend came in a Grinch onesie).

We both had a really fun time coming up with gifts and of course we opted for the DIY homemade style gift.

B: My person that I got for secret santa is known for her mean muggin'. She is wonderful and sweet. However, if you don't know her, because of her mean mug expression, you may think that she's judging you and hates life. So, as a joke, I gave her a hand painted mug that read "mean muggin'." Also, I made her a scarf. I have been knitting a lot lately and every time she came over, she always commented on the scarves I was making. Even though Charleston is super warm, hopefully she will get some use out of it! These gifts were so fun to make!

D: My person LOVES Clemson. She and her husband made it to all of the home games this season and their apartment was filled with all sorts of Clemson gear. At the same time, she has really great style and her apartment is decorated really well. So I decided to make her a Clemson wreath for her apartment door! It was my first time making one of these but I really like the way it turned out. I think my secret santa did too... at least I hope!

Mean muggin with her mean muggin mug

Our happy Secret Santas!

       

We Be Bloggin'

Hey blog world! We're Brittany and Devika... We just moved to Charleston a year ago for physical therapy school. We decided to start a blog, mainly for funsies, but also to record the second best times of our lives (first being college, obviously).  Charleston is a hybrid of old south, new trends and foodie enthusiasts so we want to take advantage of all it has to offer and share it with you!  When we're not spending our money trying out new restaurants, cafes and cocktails, we channel our crafty side.  As jobless grad students with an eye for aesthetics (at least we like to think so) we attempt to be resourceful which is necessary because our fashion and footwear obsessions are ever changing.  We hope you enjoy this glimpse into our wayward lives!