The Weekend of Cancellation
So, the weekend is past and man, it was one of those weekends where everything went wrong... and yet, was totally awesome.
Starting on Friday... Friday's are starting to become a game night with denimwizard . However, this week, I knew I had plans through the weekend, so I offered to have the game night at my place. Just before it was suppose to start however, I got a call from him saying that he was stuck in traffic and wasn't feeling well, so he was going to cancel. I was bummed, but in all honestly, we both had early mornings the next day, so it probably was for the best. When we actually have game night, it usually goes until 3 AM.
So, Saturday morning, lunacervere was going to come over and we were going to go to a museum to check out an expo on pirates. However, I woke up a little later then I wanted, jumped in the shower and got ready, and when I got out, she still wasn't there. About 30 minutes late, she showed up and it pretty much was agreed that neither of us really wanted to go. It was just way too hot out. So, we started shopping and cleaning up my place because we were having a last minute BBQ.
The BBQ was last minute because we originally were planning on going to a gala at the same museum, pirate themed, of course. However, it was kinda expensive and no one really wanted to go. Actually, I didn't even want to go, but that's a different story. So, I said, hey, let's have a BBQ instead. Now, I was 'planning' on just having a relaxing evening with some good food, however my reputation seemed to proceed myself on this one. It's no big secret that I like to party, so when an invite goes out for BBQ at my place, it was pretty much an unspoken word that people were going to get really drunk. Thus, we got the house ready.
Here's where things start to get crazy. About two hours before the thing was suppose to start, I'm cleaning my old grill and the thing is literally falling apart from rust to the point where I'm scouring holes through it. It's hot, I'm sweaty and getting a laugh out of it. Luna comes outside and I see a kiddie pool across the way (my neighbors were having a birthday party that day). I joke around and say we should kick the kids out the pool and steal it. She says, lets just go buy a pool.
So, about an hour before the party starts, we bought a pool and a new grill and I'm setting about trying to get this pool all set up. Now, this wasn't a small pool, it was a 2150 gallon (~8000 L) pool. It was at least 90 F (32 C) outside and humid as hell and the sun was just tearing me up as we're setting this pool up. It took about 45 minutes before we could start filling it with water, but as it was up and filling and I set about getting a bunch of other stuff ready.
Let's fast forward three hours, around a dozen people have finally arrived, the new grill is set-up and cooking and I'm done doing all the running around and the BBQ can actually start and I establish the house rules (which kept getting revised). The house rules are kinda tradition with the group that we party with.
1) Put the seat down on the toilet after using it.
2) Keep the conversation outside PG-13 until after dark.
3) No sex in the house unless I'm having sex. <--- This one required lots of clearifaction, apparently. (Though it was totally a joke).
4) Only puke in the toilet... if you can't make it, go for a sink.
5) No peeing in the pool.
Anyways, around 11, the pool was fully filled and people started jumping in it. At this point, a couple people are pretty drunk, but nothing too bad. So, I'm not too worried about drunkards being in a pool. However, there was one thing I didn't take into consideration. The pool was only half-full when the sun set, so the water was pretty cold. Now, I liked the fact that the pool was freezing cool... but I was pretty much the only one. A couple people jumped in and jumped right back out, but about 5 or 6 of us had a little pool party. Now, I don't remember whose idea it was, but lightsticks in a pool... is awesome. They totally float and make the pool look awesome. Of course, one thing that I didn't think of was that a bunch of people that had been drinking diving into a pool was going to guarantee that people needed to pee. And, of course, to get from the backyard to the bathroom, you'd have to walk through the entire house soaking wet. So, people started to pee in the back corner of the yard.
Around midnight (two hours after the sound curfew), I decided that we were getting a little loud and it was time to start heading into the house and start playing some games. Luna had insisted earlier that we play the Family Guy drinking game, so I think we did that first. If you don't know what the Family Guy drinking game is, it's pretty much a list of things that if it happens in an episode, you drink. I know this game well, and I told everyone that was going to play to make 'weak' drinks or use beer. I used beer. And, in a 21 minute period of time, I had finished three of them and opened a fourth. To those that weren't drunk before the game, we had a room of happy drunk people. However, the two people that were drunk before had got pushed past their limits.
Now, I have a little tradition going in my house. It's almost a guarantee that whenever I have a party, someone will throw up. I'm fine with this as long as Rule #4 is followed. So, of course, one of the guys who were really drunk started to throw up. I didn't find out until after it already happened, and he followed all rules, so I had no problem with it. Now, the other guy who was really drunk had passed out on the floor in his swimtrunks. Now, I didn't think about it... in fact, no one thought about it, but when you're drunk in wet clothes, your body has a natural reaction. To put it bluntly, he ended up pissing all over the floor. One of the other partyguest was unlucky enough to step in his... accident, and let me know. Honestly, when she told me, I thought it was a joke. But, lo-and-behold, it wasn't. So, we picked him up and put him in the bathtub to sleep it off and as soon as he got in there, he pissed again... and then passed out. By the time that was taken care of, someone already cleaned up the carpet and we went back to just playing some board games until we called it a night around 4:30 AM.
Lessons learned from the party, Rule #4 and #5 were revised.
Rule #4) Only puke and pee in designated areas.
The next day, around 9, someone came and woke me up because I had to drive him back to his car. I knew this, which is why I didn't drink TOO much the night before. By the time I took him back, everyone else was mostly awake. My flat was mostly cleaned up by then and I started making up some food for people to eat. Around 1 PM, everyone had left and I opened up my lease to find out that the pool I had bought was in violation of the lease, and I had to drain and disassemble the thing that night. So, I started draining it, laid down on the couch with Scout and fall asleep until about 6:30 PM. I woke up to a call from Luna telling me that the meeting that we had planned for that evening was cancelled (no one was really feeling up to it), so I set about cleaning up a bit more and tearing the pool apart.
So, to sum it all up, this was a weekend were everything that was planned was cancelled, and it still was a pretty epic weekend.