I did something yesterday that I haven't done in a REALLY long time.

Wear eye makeup.

:-P

As i probably haven't mentioned before, one of my best friends, Jen, is leaving for China in a couple weeks. She's only going to be there for a year, but since it's China and all, she's not going to be able to visit home much (if at all) while she's gone.

So yesterday, we went out for a last girls night out before she leaves. It was just the 'Orlando Four', me, Jen, Rachel and Jeanette. I have to admit, I really hate my glasses. I never wear them in public, but after surgery, I have to. Truthfully, I was really self conscous about wearing my glasses to go out...I felt really dorky. (if you saw my glasses, you'd know) But hell, it's not my special night out, and I don't know when we'll be able to go out like this again, so I had to push my vanity aside.

The night started out slow, when we headed out to one bar that was pretty well attended, but the music was just cheesey and blah. The best attraction to me was that they were showing the Cubs game on TV.

But we had a great time talking, reminiscing about our younger clubbing days, when we'd go out on Thursday nights and come home in the wee hours of the morning, only to go to work after a few hours of sleep. We drank to those bars and clubs that no longer exist, with names like Karma, Shelter, Voodoo, The Drink, Stardust, Kustom, the old Crobar, and many more. Since we were really bored, and perhaps a little worried that, now that we were old married women, we had lost *IT*, we went to the place where cheesey music is OK - Boogie Nights.

The place was packed, but we were fortunate enough to find a nice booth in the back so we could entertain ourselves by watching people dance, hit on each other and make out. Later on, we realized that this was the first time we had ever sat at a booth for more than 10 minutes (usually we're at the bar or on the dance floor) but we had a good time just chilling out and watching.

And our egos were given that little push when several people came up and asked us to dance. Many funny and crazy stories came out of these encounters, but I'll give you a couple of the highlighted quotes of the night.

Dude1: I'll dance for you! (starts to life up shirt)
Dude1's friend, standing at the beer stand): Hey! You're embarrassing me! I can see your belly in the mirror!

Dude2: I lost my friend Dave! If you see him, can you tell him I'm looking for him?

Dude3: So you won't let me buy you a drink, so can I buy you a spa?

Dude4: Yeah, I'm visiting from Las Vegas.
Us: What are you doing HERE?!?!
Dude4: Someone told me the place to go is here!
Us: If you're in the mood for cheesey music and cheap drinks, yeah, but if you want to go to a good club you want to go to Chicago!
Dude4: Wait, I'm not in Chicago?
Us: You're in Schaumburg.
Dude4: What's Schaumburg?
Us: A suburb - about 45 minutes from downtown Chicago, half an hour from the city itself.
Dude4: This whole time I actually thought I was in the City of Chicago!!!

Dude5: I have the funniest joke ever to tell you!!! *picks up empty beer bottles from table* Hold on...I need to buy a beer to tell it. *comes back a couple minutes later* Hey, I only have two bucks and it's $3.75 for a beer. Can I borrow a buck seventy-five?

Too funny. If you guys are reading this (and I seriously hope you aren't) thanks for the laughs.

All in all, it was a fun night with my girls. We toasted to new beginnings - a new baby, a new house, a new car, a new country. Wherever our life takes us, we'll always have silly, stupid nights like yesterday to look back on and laugh.

We may be married, but we still got *IT*!

Posted by Yano at August 7, 2004 03:06 PM

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