happy most overrated almost holiday ever!
by overrated, i am referring to that unspoken pressure to go out and do something cool, expensive and storytellable, so everyone you know doesn't think you're a big dork. i used to feel that pressure. i went to a "ball" in my high school prom dress one year (after high school- could still wear the dress, baby. woohoo! in fact, if you remember our original blog welcome photo, that strapless bubble skirt number was from 8th or 9th grade. phew. bubble skirts are even back. madness.)
i went to memphis and was the only sober person on beale street on nye another year. a few years ago, adam and i went to times square for new year's. after getting there in the early afternoon and deciding we didn't want to just stand around for hours, we went out galavanting and came back to a MASSIVE security line to get back in. they stopped letting people in about three people ahead of us after we waited at least a couple of hours. we ended up having dinner in a cute little restaurant in greenwich village and rang in the new year on the train back to new jersey where my grandma lived.
can't remember any other events i attended to try to make myself feel cool enough to keep on living for the next year. (note my sarcasm, sometimes lost in cyber-translation.)
my long winded point is that adam and i will be happy to fall asleep way before it's 2009 after stuffing our faces and wii-ifying at our neighbor's house. two doors down, no driving, no craziness. we're not cool. :-)
are you cool? what are your plans for THE BIG EVE?
in case you are cool, you have options.
this one, 24/6, tempts even me to put on a sparkly hat and step out of my dorkdom. the folks at immediacy theatre project will be writing, rehearsing and performing six ten-minute plays in 24 hours over at soulard preservation hall. doors at 8. show starts at 9. 15 buckaroos.
there's first night st. louis. no longer free, apparently, but still a reasonable $4 to enter.
the black and white ball at luminary center for the arts.
24 hours of yoga at marbles in lafayette square. thanks to the fabulous tracy lee for enlightening me! you could head to white flag projects for the tom huck new year's evil party, which sounds quite hilarious.
or you could drop a couple of benjamins at any number of washington ave. clubs, i'm sure.
regardless of what you do, make sure you have a blast but don't drink and drive, please.
*this message brought to you by the folks at benton park photography co.'s center for social responsibility.*
sounds official, doesn't it?
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Sometimes, I think people overblow holidays as an excuse to meet their needs a couple of times a year to have a party with a theme. I feel like Mardi Gras, Valentine's, St. Pat's, probably several others have been blown outside of their true meanings that way...some people just forget that sitting out is a viable and economically sound option. This year we entertained guests at home, though we easily could have gone the other way based on the invites we turned down.
(01.02.09)Woohoo, in our elder years we have been just chilling out at a friend's house, playing video games and not being crazy. I agree, it doesn't have to be the best night ever to have an awesome celebration! Oh, and here is a good "sarcastic" face to use when you are trying to be sarcastic on the Internet --> :|
That's the one I use :)
(01.03.09)