Formal!!!
So, it's been a while...what have I been up to lately??
Well, formal was last night!! Oh! So much fun! I went stag because I was ditched thanks to a friggin' poker night (what's more important in life, formal or poker? don't answer that...haha), but it was mucho fun nevertheless. I think I spent more time on the dance floor last night than the previous three-and-a-half years combined. And now I can see why. My goal for formal next semester (if I go) is to actually get drunk at formal and see how much dancing I do then. I hadn't planned to pull a Gina and sit in the bathroom and drink cosmos, but if I had, I better have had my winter coat 'cause the bathroom was freezing! Like, the same temperatures as northern Wisconsin on a day in January (okay, a bit over dramatic, but you know how it goes). Anyway, so formal was a good time. Not many alums were there (just me, Em, Schoofs, Lisa, Buddy, and then Ian came at the very end), but it was still a good time. Hey, alums, better showing next time??? And I got to hang out with a lot of my music geek crew, which was fun fun fun!
Moving along from formal, work has been work. People are starting to get on my nerves (not coworkers, I heart my coworkers!), you know those people who call us. Screw them all!! Or most of them, anyway.
Back to formal, or at least formal shopping anyway, I just have a word of warning to people. Stay clear of anything that is a store nowadays, starting yesterday!! (shoot, have to go shopping, need to buy a beater - you know, those things that beat eggs and cake mixes and stuff, because I'm lazy, and even if I wasn't, my brownie batter always ends up lumpy and my arm ends up hurting and it's just not happy, so I'm going to buy one today, but that's a little sidetracked, ANYWAY). So, I realized that I didn't have anything to wear to formal, save exactly what I wore to formal last semester, which I decided against, and the bridesmaid dress from Jamie's wedding which would be fine, except that I vetoed that as well, as the straps are too long, and I don't want to use safety pins and haven't figured out how to sew that kind of stuff yet (Mom?)...so I decided to go see if I could find a cute top or something to wear with my gray pants. After driving around the Target parking lot for about 15 minutes, I said "fuck it" and was going to go home, when I realized that the parking lot for TJ Maxx was not nearly as full, but it took about 10 minutes to get over there...
Which is where I found a really cute top for like, five bucks (which I did end up buying), but instead of getting off on another rant about something I've already ranted about, I'll refer you back to post dated 01/06/2005 - I Hate Shallow People, which is my rant about why having boobs is bad (at times). Anyway, so said five dollar cute top - not so much. Quite sad, actually. But instead I found a cool long olive green skirt, so I just wore a regular black tank top, and all was good. Formal for under twenty bucks is always good.
I think I'm going to do my christmas shopping online...
Anyway, I need to go do what I told everyone else not to do - go shopping. I'm going to try my luck at making pumpkin pie today before Thanksgiving (in case it sucks) so that I can bring my pumpkin pie and apple pie home to Milwaukee for Thanksgiving. Woohoo!!
And it sounds like yesterday was a very bad day to be the principal oboist of the MSO! HAHA! That comment, dear Jhenny, made my day! Are we still on for the 28th of February??? :)
- posted by L. @ 12:02 PM