extravaganza

love is a battlefield… with sharks

thanks to everyone who wished me a happy birthday cos guess what

IT WAS AWESOME!! IT WAS THE PANTSIEST OF THE PANTS!!!!!!

sorry i haven’t been able to blog about it before today… and i’ll tell you all about my excuse later.

but for now LET’S TALK ABOUT MY BIRTHDAY! YAY!

friday night, i invited some pantsers over to henri’s place to get all pat benatared up for a major dance-o-rama!!! part of the fun of dressing up is getting ready with other girls, esp. cos you can share glitter and hot pink lipstick and electric blue eye shadow. in fact, i think i was about eleven or twelve before i realized that there were OTHER shades of eyeshadow besides blue. hello, it was the barbie standard!

now, this may be obvious given the pirate parties/new wave sing-alongs/casino parties previously covered on le blog, but y’all, when pants world dresses up, WE BRING IT. in fact, i think we could shimmy pat benatar herself straight out the door!

I KNOW RIGHT? obvs erica won first prize, cos she made her dress, pretty in pink style. i love how, in the 80s, you didn’t have to know how to sew in order to make clothes. you just had to TEAR THINGS.

erin (with a little e) was a v. v. close runner up. even when i closed my eyes, i could still see her purple eyeshadow cos it was THAT bright.

up next we have mandy, who rocked the most hardcore look of the bunch. attention sleazy club owner: you do NOT want to mess with this runaway.

meredith, as usual, was super sparkly and fantastic-looking. the best part is that she already owned every single item she wore that night. PROPS!!!

i have to give you a close-up of erin and meredith’s make-up, cos it was so fabulous!

next up is talena, who committed herself so fully to the role that she cut off the bottom of her shirt and tied a piece of it around her wrist. 80s runaways have to be resourceful, you know.

sally is the newest pantser to join our crew, so i was ready to cut her some slack in the costume department. but girlfriend was not afraid to show her true colors!! and by that i mean, red and animal print!!!!!

and finally, the birthday girl!

can i just tell you that i found that belt at savers for TWO DOLLARS?!!! it was almost as good of a find as that time i discovered a vera wang dress for five dollars. anyway.

the boys, while not as impressive fashion-wise as the ladies, still managed to be pretty cute.

everyone who’s shocked by the fact that henri wore his gold jacket, raise yr hand. to the one person who raised his/her hand: thanks for visiting my blog for the first time! yay!

i must also give matt props for wearing a jacket… with removable sleeves!!!!!

i can’t decided what i was more excited about– the dancing, or the friend-making. cos one of my favorite things IN THE WORLD is connecting people i love, so that they can share their awesomeness and it will go forth and multiply. it’s sort of like being a bio-engineer, except my friends have way more personality than cells.

for example, sally, my newest friend, got to meet talena, my oldest (since the 6th grade!) friend.

an hour into the festivities, i was already exploding with squee.

after everyone was suitably benatared up, we headed over to qua, where i had reserved a private booth to make us feel like VIPants! i’ve mentioned it before, but qua is a “posh” (read: cheesy) club with sharks swimming underneath the dance floor. the sharks are tiny, but still!! plus, if you reserve a table, you get to talk to the Executive Mood Director. no really, that’s his title. QUAAASOME!

i think this is as close as i can get to having a studio 54 pic to show my grandkids as proof that i was cool.

ok, well, maybe not cool but… sparkly?

basically, i had all of the necessary ingredients for the perfect dance party: costumes, a decent deejay, a bar and, of course, pantsers who know how to shake what their mamas gave ‘em!!

now, usually when i go to qua, i end up watching the people there and, well, ok, making fun of them. friday night, i’m pretty sure it was the other way around. except instead of people mocking us, you know they SO wanted to join our little 80s runaway crew!

we actually did have some late additions, in the form of  the ever-fabulous caitlin…

and the party machine known as amber!

as you can imagine, it got pretty ridiculous. but totally in an end of “footloose” kind of way.

in fact, these pictures are so amazing, i can’t even contain them with captions.

BUT you are most welcome to offer yr own caption suggestions in the comments.

in fact, i’m realizing that one night at qua gave me enough pictures to launch my own “I Can Has Dance Party?” site. no seriously.

HALP! i iz under shimmy attack!

80s wail, ur doin it right!

im in ur face, givin u FIERCE!

trust me, there are PLENTY more photos where those came from, but i don’t want to overwhelm anyone with our AMAZINGNESS. or sweatiness. so i’ll stop there.

anyway, i can’t imagine a more fabulous way to begin my 30th birthday weekend!

it was pretty much the Best Night Ever!!!! dance was our battlefield, and we TOTALLY WON THE WAR!

p.s. tomorrow, i’ll tell you all about the Best DAY Ever!!!!

LINKS

april fools on thinkgeek makes me ANGRY cos WHY ISN’T THE UNICORN CHASER REAL?!! WHY WHYWHY?

i’ve gotten this link from not one but TWO ladies: CAKE BALLS!!! i love being the go-to person for baked good trends. i’m like, the anna wintour of cake.

90s movie madness! now THESE are the kinds of brackets i can understand. home alone FTW!!!!

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