Prom
Wow, it's been a long time...anywho i'm writing this at aobut 4:30 monday morning cause i woke up at 3 and now i have nothing better to do!!!
Aliright so i started getting ready around 3, and being the stubborn non-planner i am i decided to do hair, makeup etc. on my own. i did my nails the night before while watching pride and prejudice (mrs. maguires short clips in lit made me curious, and i love the book), so all i had to do was my hair and makeup before putting my dress on. well my mom was convinced that i should wear my hair down and in curls. so she put her old hot rollers in my hair, and painfully poked my head with the holding pins many times. of course i couldn't do it because she thought i didn't know how (yeah right, she just wanted to dress me up for prom, since it's her first real chance...not including senior prom last year where she wasn't allowed to do anything). anyway, i played along and let her curl my hair. i then proceeded to put mousse in my hair, and after actually reading the directions and seeing that it was meant to be put in before hand, when your hair is still wet...i tried to brush out what i could of it. i actually succeeded pretty well if i do say so myself. but i finished with hair and makeup around 4...leaving about 45 minutes for me to do whatever till it was time to start putting my dress on. So i walked around in my bathrobe, ready to throw on my dress. Of course my parents went out to pick up my grandmother who decidedly had to see me before prom, leaving me to watch over my sister and her friend Tessa. Well of course, Tessa's father showed up early to pick her up only to find me in heels, and a silk bathrobe (i honestly didn't think i would be seen by anyone outside my immediate family while i was wearing that). it will be very interesting seeing him the next time i babysit for them. so that awkward moment passed and at 4:45 i got in my dress and my mom, who i will never forgive for this, made me wear a girdle so that nobody could see any flaw (which was hidden under the poof of my dress anyway), but made it really difficult to move around when dancing. my dad was video taping the whole pre-prom experience, including me walking into the bathroom to touch up my lip gloss.
So overall i was done at exactly 5 when the limo was SUPPOSED to come. in reality, it didn't show until 5:30. which was probably a good thing, since mitch had just gotten in about 5 minutes before i called him at 5:15(he was in vegas for 3 days before prom). the limo finally came at 5:30 and it was off to mitch's place. he didn't know about the limo so he was quite surprised when he came outside. his parents, as do all parents, wanted photos. so we stood around waiting for that to be finished. then we hopped in and went to pick up mary and mike over at mary's place. i got a call from her asking where we were just as we were going down 30 to pick them up. anyway, we got there and had more pictures taken, so much fun. of course those pictures had to be with us facing the sun so we were all squinting in the pictures. after that we got in the limo and drove to the convention center where prom was being held.
When we got to prom we had to sign in for both prom and after-prom, and then get more pictures taken (this time professionally though). we got in just about the same time everyone else was so we stopped many times to say hi to all the beautiful people, and there were many, before finally seating ourselves at a table. nobody really danced until after dinner (which was very yummy) so we all sat around the table and talked. after dinner people started dancing, but mary insisted on waiting until the lights went out. when they did we all wen ton the floor and started dancing. even though there was loads of room for everyone in the convention center, of course it was all a big mass of people dancing right up front. so, naturally we got as far into the middle of it as we could. we danced, we talked, i lost mitch about 4 times, and i left mike and mary to their fun many many more than that. most of the night i actually spent ddancing with lis gambone. that was so much fun since we were semi out to show up paolo. so we danced the night away and had a blast. then we left and hopped in my dads car (we couldn't afford to keep the limo for 6 hours since gratuity alone came to $425). we dropped mary and mike off at mary's place to get changed, and whatever else they felt like doing. and went home so mitch and i could change.
we got changed without incident...and in seperate rooms thank you very much. and went to after prom. when we got to the school for after prom, mike and mary were already there, and mitch, mike and kevin raced tricicles. after they did that mary, miss hickey and i did the same. i was winning, until mary grabbed me on the final turn so miss hickey would win. silly mary. so then mary mike and i (mitch disappeared) went off to the other gym and listened to the band and ate even more food. then we found mitch and decided to go play twister. mike and mary got distracted by the juke box, so mitch and i went ahead.
The twister room was in ms. mariani's room and was quite awsome, with blacklights everywhere and a giant twister mat. the walls were all covered in paper painted with big blacklight spots. so i played twister for a little while and then gave up and took over a beanbag chair in the corner (i am really bad at twister). so for about 2 hours mitch and i fought over control of 2 beanbag chairs to lay across. we found a semi compromise after mary had come in, and she fell asleep on half of one. the compromise was that i was half on the floor and half on a beanbag while mitch was laying across them both. so i was getting really tired, since it was like 1:30, and i tried to go to sleep. but a lot of people were talking and it was just really impossible. but then mitch rubbed my neck and i fell asleep for about 5 minutes. so both mitch and i were really tired at this point and we just sort of lay there and i rubbed his head to try and help him go to sleep like he helped me. without going into too much detail the after prom night ended with mitch saying he would never look at mariani's room the same way again, and mary mitch and i taking a bunch of the decorations after everyone had left. then i went home, fell asleep and didn't wake up till 12:30 sunday afternoon!
Aliright so i started getting ready around 3, and being the stubborn non-planner i am i decided to do hair, makeup etc. on my own. i did my nails the night before while watching pride and prejudice (mrs. maguires short clips in lit made me curious, and i love the book), so all i had to do was my hair and makeup before putting my dress on. well my mom was convinced that i should wear my hair down and in curls. so she put her old hot rollers in my hair, and painfully poked my head with the holding pins many times. of course i couldn't do it because she thought i didn't know how (yeah right, she just wanted to dress me up for prom, since it's her first real chance...not including senior prom last year where she wasn't allowed to do anything). anyway, i played along and let her curl my hair. i then proceeded to put mousse in my hair, and after actually reading the directions and seeing that it was meant to be put in before hand, when your hair is still wet...i tried to brush out what i could of it. i actually succeeded pretty well if i do say so myself. but i finished with hair and makeup around 4...leaving about 45 minutes for me to do whatever till it was time to start putting my dress on. So i walked around in my bathrobe, ready to throw on my dress. Of course my parents went out to pick up my grandmother who decidedly had to see me before prom, leaving me to watch over my sister and her friend Tessa. Well of course, Tessa's father showed up early to pick her up only to find me in heels, and a silk bathrobe (i honestly didn't think i would be seen by anyone outside my immediate family while i was wearing that). it will be very interesting seeing him the next time i babysit for them. so that awkward moment passed and at 4:45 i got in my dress and my mom, who i will never forgive for this, made me wear a girdle so that nobody could see any flaw (which was hidden under the poof of my dress anyway), but made it really difficult to move around when dancing. my dad was video taping the whole pre-prom experience, including me walking into the bathroom to touch up my lip gloss.
So overall i was done at exactly 5 when the limo was SUPPOSED to come. in reality, it didn't show until 5:30. which was probably a good thing, since mitch had just gotten in about 5 minutes before i called him at 5:15(he was in vegas for 3 days before prom). the limo finally came at 5:30 and it was off to mitch's place. he didn't know about the limo so he was quite surprised when he came outside. his parents, as do all parents, wanted photos. so we stood around waiting for that to be finished. then we hopped in and went to pick up mary and mike over at mary's place. i got a call from her asking where we were just as we were going down 30 to pick them up. anyway, we got there and had more pictures taken, so much fun. of course those pictures had to be with us facing the sun so we were all squinting in the pictures. after that we got in the limo and drove to the convention center where prom was being held.
When we got to prom we had to sign in for both prom and after-prom, and then get more pictures taken (this time professionally though). we got in just about the same time everyone else was so we stopped many times to say hi to all the beautiful people, and there were many, before finally seating ourselves at a table. nobody really danced until after dinner (which was very yummy) so we all sat around the table and talked. after dinner people started dancing, but mary insisted on waiting until the lights went out. when they did we all wen ton the floor and started dancing. even though there was loads of room for everyone in the convention center, of course it was all a big mass of people dancing right up front. so, naturally we got as far into the middle of it as we could. we danced, we talked, i lost mitch about 4 times, and i left mike and mary to their fun many many more than that. most of the night i actually spent ddancing with lis gambone. that was so much fun since we were semi out to show up paolo. so we danced the night away and had a blast. then we left and hopped in my dads car (we couldn't afford to keep the limo for 6 hours since gratuity alone came to $425). we dropped mary and mike off at mary's place to get changed, and whatever else they felt like doing. and went home so mitch and i could change.
we got changed without incident...and in seperate rooms thank you very much. and went to after prom. when we got to the school for after prom, mike and mary were already there, and mitch, mike and kevin raced tricicles. after they did that mary, miss hickey and i did the same. i was winning, until mary grabbed me on the final turn so miss hickey would win. silly mary. so then mary mike and i (mitch disappeared) went off to the other gym and listened to the band and ate even more food. then we found mitch and decided to go play twister. mike and mary got distracted by the juke box, so mitch and i went ahead.
The twister room was in ms. mariani's room and was quite awsome, with blacklights everywhere and a giant twister mat. the walls were all covered in paper painted with big blacklight spots. so i played twister for a little while and then gave up and took over a beanbag chair in the corner (i am really bad at twister). so for about 2 hours mitch and i fought over control of 2 beanbag chairs to lay across. we found a semi compromise after mary had come in, and she fell asleep on half of one. the compromise was that i was half on the floor and half on a beanbag while mitch was laying across them both. so i was getting really tired, since it was like 1:30, and i tried to go to sleep. but a lot of people were talking and it was just really impossible. but then mitch rubbed my neck and i fell asleep for about 5 minutes. so both mitch and i were really tired at this point and we just sort of lay there and i rubbed his head to try and help him go to sleep like he helped me. without going into too much detail the after prom night ended with mitch saying he would never look at mariani's room the same way again, and mary mitch and i taking a bunch of the decorations after everyone had left. then i went home, fell asleep and didn't wake up till 12:30 sunday afternoon!