I haven’t had a hangover this bad since the August I had a newborn, a toddler, and a kindergartner start school.
There comes a time when you know you’ve gone around the bend and maybe you should admit it.
It’s the first step.
My 30th high school reunion was Saturday night and it was fabulous.
It was, I am compelled to publish, a better turn-out than Hubby’s was, three weeks ago.
Yes, we graduated the same year on the same day at the same time from rival high schools and I am also compelled to explain that his was the one on the wrong side of the tracks, I don’t care what was yelled by a certain young lady wearing face paint and a pompon on her head and throwing all dignity to the wind, screamed herself silly over a football game that she never bothered learning the rules to.
My brain only has so much space in it.
Football games were for showing up with your girlfriends and letting the other side know how badly they were about to lose. Even if we lost, we had to insist we won. All about that attitude, baby.
The reunion was on point.
I showed up, jumped into a pile of girlfriends and turned up the volume.
The face paint is slightly more mature, but as you can see from the photos, I still have a pompon on my head.
Something I noticed that all future reunion organizers might want to write down:
- By the 30th reunion, people are flying in from all over the world to attend.
- They are fighting jet lag just to see their bestie from second grade.
- Skip the dance floor.
Both reunions tried, and I was one of six girls up there attempting to lure the party into the multi-colored strobe-lit, Van Halen pumping, fog machine mood-enhancing, MTV 80s love fest.
Perhaps everyone already has this at home. I should’ve asked.
The poor DJ was killing herself trying to earn her paycheck and the crowds would have none of it. She pumped up the volume, she pulled out classics and party tunes, she drove them up against the back wall of the building and out the door as they desperately tried to hear each other talk about little Timmy.
If only the DJ had taken the hint and dropped the beat, literally, so we could hear ourselves think.
I lost my voice and my hearing, which is always a good day-after football game sign, it means you took it seriously. But the headache is from drinking the wine poured under the table by my lawyer girlfriend who smuggled it in in a big fancy purse because open bars are for sissies.
The part where I’m staggering around is from doing the Electric Slide in high heels that should never, under any circumstances, slide.
I’m squinting because the daylight in SoCal in August does not take pity on a morning-after face that’s not be used to photo-boothing until all hours. I need a nap.
I’m pretty sure I made some new wrinkles, and I hope I made some new friends.
It’s hard to tell. Like my face, it’s a bit of a blur.
Hubby knew more people there than I did and seems to have no side effects from partying with his rival high school gang.
I’ll have to fix that.
You said it perfect