March 19, 2011

Prom Memories

I am volunteering again for the Princess Project today and whenever I'm there I am always reminded of my prom.

In my high school we had Junior Prom and then Senior Ball. I really wasn't planning on going to the Junior Prom but at the last minute my friends persuade me to go. So since it was last minute I had no date and no real dress. All my friends had dates and nice dresses. The only formal dress I had in my closet was the bridesmaid dress I wore for my sister's wedding (it wasn't as bad as it sounds). I remember the day of the prom because I really didn't want to go not because I didn't have a date, ok maybe partly because I didn't have a date but I knew I would feel uncomfortable the whole time. Anyways, we were all suppose to meet up at my friend CW's house for pictures. My other friend SR was running really late because she had a soccer game and went to get her hair done which was taking longer than she anticipated (I should note that she was/is a bit of a tomboy so it was a BIG deal she was even going to the prom). I remember everybody was getting frustrated with her and she was about to not even come but eventually she showed up.

We got to the prom and I barely remember dancing at all. Actually as I am writing this post I just remembered how one of my friend's date was dancing and it totally took us girls by surprise because we were totally not expecting him to dance like that. I feel like we were hardly even at the prom. I remember SR being upset and we had to console her, typically Prom girl drama right? The one highlight of my whole Junior Prom, actually the only highlight, was when me and my bestie LM ran into our Senior Boy crush SO and he stopped to take pictures with us! That seriously made my night and I think my year. The only bad thing is I don't know where those pictures are now. :(

Senior Ball was so much more relaxed. All my girlfriends (except for I think 2 or 3) went solo (the number of good guys at our school was super low) and we had such a fun time. A small group of us had dinner at a friends house before the dance and she and her mom decorated and made it really nice. One of my friends JP drove us to the venue and I remember we were sitting in traffic at the toll booth at the Bay Bridge and we saw some of our friends and we just rolled down the window and started talking with them. I loved the dress that I wore that night. I actually still have it and need to donate it to the Princess Project.

What are your prom memories?

I leave you with one of the most infamous prom scenes in all of cinema...

(I mean it is totally realistic for a group of students to bust out with a choreographed dance right in the middle of prom, right?)

March 6, 2011

Catching Up...

How is everybody doing? Great I hope! Yesterday I met up with one of my friends that I worked with at my old job. It was so fun catching up with her and gossiping about the office. There was/is so much drama at that job but I kinda blame that on the fact that the majority of the staff was female. I mean men just tend to not create drama with each other. But I learned a new piece of juicy gossip but of course I have to put that one in vault and not tell anybody. The ONLY thing I miss about that job is the people who I worked with. Anyways, we went to this fun place called Pete's Brass Rail & Car Wash. There slogan is "There is no brass rail, there is no car wash, and who the hell is Pete?" It's really a restaurant and bar with 20 rotating beers on tap and if you drink 100 different ones then you can get your name up on the wall.

We drank a few beers and ate some yummy appetizers. The hummus is the picture was so good! We even scheduled to meet up again in about a month. I'm glad we were able to meet up. One of my new year's goals was to maintain relationships with friends and I think this is meeting that goal so far.

My giveaway for the Dogeared Pearl Necklace and Aunt Sadie's Candle ends tomorrow at midnight so in case you haven't entered yet, don't forget! Enter here