Our friends Kevin and Jill got married last night. They may be the best looking couple of all time. Daniel DJ ed the reception and a good time was had by all. The bridal party was certainly the highlight of the evening by performing two dance offs for the bouquet and again for the garter. They also made good use of the wireless mic multiple times to serenade the other guests on the dance floor. Not only were jackets, bow ties, and cumberbuns removed, but a shirt or two made its way off. I believe all good signs that the DJ was killin' it. Let's face it...no one discards binding clothing when there's a bad DJ. I couldn't have been more proud.
PS- Jill made adorable favors that I haven't seen before. "Jill and Kevin's Kissing Kit" with mints, lip balm, and even directions on the back for a successful smooch.
No this isn't a week long series I had intended on doing listing the reasons why Daniel is cooler than me because for the record I don't actually think that he is. He may get to do cooler things than me, but that by no means is any indication that he is in fact cooler at his core than I am. Question: Is the correct grammar, "cooler than me" or "cooler than I am"? I kept it casual using me in the title of the post, but is it actually correct to say "cooler than I am"?
Riding the coat tails of yesterday's post, comes another instance of Daniel's cool factor rising beyond mine. Tonight- YL Kid: "Hey Hattie, is Dan getting paid for those commercials?" Me: "What commercials?" YL Kid: "You know the singing in the car ones." Me: "What? Another one?"
My own mother is only adding fuel to his cool burning fire. Earlier today (yes even before this evening's comment from YL Kid)- Mom: "We saw Daniel's commercial last night." Me: "Oh they're still running those?" Mom: "We hadn't seen this one before." Me: "Yeah they've been playing for a while now." Mom: "No, this one. We've seen the other one. I think this one's new."
His fame continues. First it's a one liner in a commercial. Then his denim clothed butt is plastered across websites. And now it's another commercial where his word count seems to have exceeded one line status. Is this reading as frustrated? Is my annoyance coming across in my tone? If not let me just state how irritating it is to be married to a golden boy. Sure I'm proud but it gets old when even sitting at a high school sporting event all the guys ask, "Where's Dan?"(happened again just yesterday at basketball).
Oh hello, how are you doing Hattie? Thanks for coming. It's so good to see you. Nope, none of that.
I would make a terrible first lady. "Yes, yes Barack is doing great. Leader of the free world. I know. We're so proud. He is cool isn't he? Thanks for saying that. Hey speaking of cool, have you seen my new jacket? Thank you, my inaugural suit was gorgeous wasn't it? I know I do get ignored a lot. Thanks for noticing." (PS- I do not mean to say in this mini conversation that there is nothing to Michelle Obama and other first ladies than their clothes. She is amazing and accomplished. I used clothing as an example only to make an illustration concerning coolness. So calm down before you take offense at the appearance of a lack of appreciation for first ladies. Go Michelle!)
But I digress. I love Daniel. I'm happy for him. But where's the love America? Is he going to be the grandpa with all the cool stories and I'm going to be the lame boring grandma? I need to broaden my life experiences (or just fabricate some convincing tales of grandeur). I will step out of his shadow by whatever means necessary, lying included. Ah ha! Even he will tell you I'm an excellent liar...something that he is incapable of doing. Lying that is. Perhaps that isn't something to be boasting about, but I truly am an astounding liar.
So if you haven't gotten in all your Daniel worship for the week yet, you can check out the SECOND commercial below. His snippet is in the very last seconds. They saved the best for last. And as jealous and competitive as I jest here, he really is the best.
PSS- Oh and spelling! He sucks at spelling sometimes. I am definitely a better speller, and liar.
Thanks to Baldwin Denim and the Denim Debate, Daniel is getting famous on the internet...or at least his butt is (this link is from Valet Mag and yes that's my babe of a husband in the picture).
Butt seriously. Sorry. Seriously though Daniel gets to be a part of this awesome project called The Denim Debate. For one year he is wearing a pair of selvege denim and will document the breaking in process along with around 25 other folks. Matt Baldwin, the owner of Standard and Daniel's boss and friend, launched his own denim line this past fall so Daniel will be wearing a pair of Baldwin 77's. Bookmark the site for the debate if you want to follow Daniel and the rest of the crew throughout the year. Also look at these rad pictures from the Baldwin campaign shot by photographer extraordinaire Ryan Strong.
Reason #43 Daniel is cooler than me: he gets to wear dope clothes, collaborate with other creative people, and get paid for having good style. I guess that's three reasons, but you get the point. I wear the Baldwin Ten if anyone cares.
Over the past few months we've had a lot of fun answering the question, "Was that Daniel in the car commercial?". Our friends, and Daniel's co-worker, the McCarthys did an ad campaign featuring their daughter entitled "Lauren Wants to Know". Daniel is featured in a quick TV spot administering the line, "So why do you wanna know?". I got a call from a friend just this morning asking if that was Daniel on TV so apparently the ads are still running. He does great on air and is available for all your advertisement needs. Please direct all booking inquires to his manager.
For the entire year of 2010 I took on the challenge to break my perfectionism and conquer my fear of mediocrity. I shared the experience through daily blog posts. I'm still living imperfectly and writing about it here.
