We started booking honeymoon accommodations

We started booking honeymoon accommodations and let’s just say we’ll be lucky if I ever come home. After some hemming and hawing over prices, location, and timing, we ended up picking a B&B that got rave reviews all around. (If you ever want to get depressed fast, start reading the reviews people leave for some of the bargain lodging. Every time I thought I found a steal of a deal, I’d look up the reviews to find that the hotel RUINED someone’s LIFE and there was MOLD and DEAD things and STEALING and for the love of god DON’T STAY HERE. Which…okay. I’ll take the free chocolate covered strawberries instead). The rave reviews might well be from people still happy drunk from all the free wine and champagne showered upon them. Along with the private pool and fab breakfasts, the B&B’s website touts complimentary wine, hors d’ oeuvres, and chocolate cake. They just stuck chocolate cake there on the end so J and I would lose all ability to choose another place to stay. I’m pretty sure this marketing strategy would work for lots of products. Which phone plan would you choose: your current one, or a very similar one that gives you free chocolate cake? Exaaactly.

In case you are near Union Square today, Sephora is doing a huge party down there to celebrate the opening of the new store. The square is full up of tents and chairs for makeovers and free sample giveaways. I just might have to stroll by after work. On Tuesday I thought I saw a commercial being filmed there. There were camera crews, a huge Snapple sign, and lots of fireman hosing down the street. I learned the next day that what I’d actually witnessed was the tail end of a giant popsicle experiment gone awry. I would have given anything to have walked past as the “wave of slush” went by.

That is a Thing You Don’t See Every Day.

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