BREAKING NEWS: Moneypenny snags Bond after all.....

For those of you who know me fairly well, you know that I am a huge James Bond fan. It started back when I was in elementary school and was home sick for a couple of weeks with bronchitis or pneumonia (something like that) and my Mom would bring home a James Bond tape each day for me to watch. I then read some of the novels too.

So needless to say when our friends Elisabeth and Neil decided to host a birthday party in honor of Neil (Happy Birthday!) on Saturday and set a dress code of "James Bond" attire, I was all over it. Unfortunately not many of the Bond chicks had my mop of hair and when I went to try on some wigs, none of them would fit.

This meant "Plan B" for me - as a Project Manager for a living, you always need a "Plan B", I decided to be Miss Moneypenny. I have some suits from my Wall Street days, so I plucked out one of the more conservative ones of the bunch, and threw on some "extra nerdy glasses". For those of you who don't know, Miss Moneypenny (the secretary to Bond's boss at the British Secret Service) has an unrequited crush on Bond. Such a shame.

Anyway we also had to dress up Marc. Now keeping in mind that Bond was either in tight bathing suits or tuxedos, I figured I had quite a challenge ahead of me. As a matter of fact, both Elisabeth and Neil fully expected Marc to show up at the party in a golf shirt and cargo shorts. How wrong they were.

Marc surfed the web for some images of Bond, and one of the images caught my eye of Oddjob - the best evil sidekick ever in a James Bond film. Oddjob was in Goldfinger, my favorite Bond film of all time. Now Marc would have been an awesome Oddjob, but again the attire would not have suited him, so I thought more about Goldfinger and remembered the 'golf scene'. Hat (no, not cap), sweater, slacks, golf shirt and black shoes. Yes, we could do this!

Lots of similarities here - the attire, drink in hand, Slazenger logo on the sweater, the golf club in his right hand that you can barely make out. Gosh, I was proud.

Needless to say when we walked into the party (and BTW, Marc had a golf club in tow), we received lots of laughs. As a matter of fact, we actually got to see the scene that Marc "was in" during the party as Neil was playing some Bond movies throughout the evening. Applause from the other guests ensued, which of course embarassed Marc - but hey, that's the price you pay for being famous.

Fun times, fun times.... and in this case, Moneypenny got her man in the end. Yeah, baby! [ok, had to throw in an Austin Powers reference, which takes a number of things from Goldfinger - like the character, Random Task - take-off on Oddjob]

On another note, the Yanks are sending the biggest bust of the year - Kei Igawa - to the mound tonight since Roger Clemens is still nursing the hamstring. I have a feeling it is going to be an ugly night for our pitching staff - I'll be hoping and praying for the Yankee bats to take over tonight, or else we have some problems.