sofa suckage

i'm supposed to be at zumba right now. but this guy . . .

. . . tried to drink me under the table every night this past week. as i mentioned in my last rant, sunday we started at prego at the beach rotana; gave our livers a mini-break on monday and tuesday (jeff does have to work after all); moved a mile up the road to vincent's cigar, nut and piano bar at the crowne plaza on wednesday, then found ourselves at cho gao on thursday (both also at the crowne plaza -- we're getting lazier). friday wielded the most damage at trader vic's where we ran into steve and mark from the brunchathon last week (abu dhabi is truly a very small ex-pat community at times).

today i finally admitted defeat and relinquished victory to nick (smug looking irishman in pic above). the attempt to rid abu dhabi of every bottle of wine continues this evening at the sheraton, but i begged off with every intention of going to zumba. that plan drifted out the door about five minutes after jeff did (and after the couch wouldn't relinquish its hold on my person). but tomorrow is another day and future tricia is going to boot camp class at 6am. really. i am.

wednesday afternoon, i took a brief hiatus from the male-drinking-bonding activities and attended a birthday lunch for louise at the abu dhabi golf club. there i met several more entertaining ladies from the u.k. and one hilarious canadian. there was wine involved there too (it was a birthday lunch!).

why, oh why would anyone care to read how bristol palin lost her virginity to that @ss named levi? i can't believe she wrote a book. but i guess its not any worse than snookie or j-wow detailing their adventures (probably not much different than this snoozer of a web blog either).

i've noticed that cheesy, 80's, porn star mustaches are popular on the men here - pics to follow shortly.

next week is a short work week for jeff ; not because its the fourth of july (obviously) -- the holiday is to commemorate the "isra'a & mi'raj of prophet mohammad" (um, ok). this holiday was just decided/created last week (they do that a lot here). i'm hoping there's a trip to dubai in it somewhere.

13 days until green, rainy dublin!

t.