Scare Quotes: LJ Idol Season 9 Week 17
Let me set the scene: It's 4 AM and I'm in Atlantic City for my bachelorette party. I just spent the night having a fancy Italian dinner (complete with lobster and shrimp ravioli), seeing male strippers with my friends and cousin thus accomplishing one of my bucket list items that I've been wanting to do since I was 12, I danced on stage with a stripper, I performed Miley Cyrus's Wrecking Ball on said stage (with all my clothes on, of course), wandered onto the beach at 1 AM, took pictures on the lifesize Monopoly board outside of Bally's Casino, picked up strange guys on the Boardwalk and had fun conversations with them, met a basketball player who plays for the Washington Generals, met an Irish guy at a bar, and won $20 at roulette which I've never played before.
Me happy with all of my ones for the strippers along with a $20 that Stephanie gave me before the show.
Reenacting the Titanic scene with my cousin on the lifesized Monopoly board at 2 AM!
Some could say I had a packed night! I could even say that! I was ready to call it a night. At 4 AM, I could go to sleep easily knowing I had an awesome night.
My cousin had other plans.
The conversation went something like this:
"Hillary, why would you go to sleep? It's your bachelorette party!"
"So? I'm on 3 hours of sleep! My feet are killing me! I'm done!"
"But what about all the guys we met! We could go back on the boardwalk and meet more guys!" Mind you, she's married. "Sleep is for the weak! You're almost 29 years old - who goes to bed at 4 AM?"
"I do!"
"You can sleep when you're dead!"
"I don't believe in that quote. I enjoy sleep, thank you very much and I might be almost 29 but I've done this crazy shit already. I want to sleep! It's 4 AM!" My best friend is watching us go back and forth in amusement. "Besides, I've done this all before. I've stayed up all night before, I've gambled before, wandered the boardwalk, I'm not missing out on something at 4 AM!"
"Then why did you even want to come to Atlantic City them if you did it all?"
"FOR THE STRIPPERS!"
"Seriously, Hillary... You're getting married! Stay up!"
"Thanks, Sherlock for pointing that out."
"No, really! You need to take this seriously! You're getting married and when's the next time you're going to be able to pick yourself up and go out to bachelorette parties and go away with your friends anytime you want? Soon enough, you'll have kids and then what? You're going to look back and say 'why did I go to bed at 4AM at my own bachelorette party?'"
"Actually, for your information, the next time I'm going to a bachelorette party is this coming Thursday in Chicago." I stuck my tongue out at her.
My best friend decided to chime in. "She'll also go away on vacation whenever I get married because I want to do something like this for my bachelorette party!"
"And besides, I'll do this when I want to. You can't scare me! If I have kids and I want to go to Atlantic City or Ocean City or Vegas or what have you for vacation with friends, that's why I'll have a husband to stay back and watch the kids!"
I've always been very adamant that when I have kids one day, I'll still continue to do fun things and not claim "oh, I can't do that anymore." My own mother was the mother that made sure to take me everywhere with her because she figured if she was going to have an experience, I should too. My sister had she not just given birth last month would have been at my bachelorette party despite having two little kids at home; same with another close friend who is 7 months pregnant.
"You say that now, Hillary, but just watch."
I gave in much to my cousin's delight.
My 4 AM tongue out face surrounded by my cousin and my best friend before going back out (I changed into my PJs after this pic was taken - because if I had to go back out, I was going to be comfortable!). We were out until 5 AM when I finally put my foot down and said I'm going to sleep!
She thinks it's because her tactics worked.
Nah.
It's because at the end of the day, exhaustion and all, I'm never the first to leave a party and it's hard to go to sleep when I know my friends are out doing stuff!
(Besides, it took 16 years for my best friend and I to finally execute a plan to go spend a night at a hotel and go to the beach - who am I to miss out on this experience with her?)
Me happy with all of my ones for the strippers along with a $20 that Stephanie gave me before the show.
Reenacting the Titanic scene with my cousin on the lifesized Monopoly board at 2 AM!
Some could say I had a packed night! I could even say that! I was ready to call it a night. At 4 AM, I could go to sleep easily knowing I had an awesome night.
My cousin had other plans.
The conversation went something like this:
"Hillary, why would you go to sleep? It's your bachelorette party!"
"So? I'm on 3 hours of sleep! My feet are killing me! I'm done!"
"But what about all the guys we met! We could go back on the boardwalk and meet more guys!" Mind you, she's married. "Sleep is for the weak! You're almost 29 years old - who goes to bed at 4 AM?"
"I do!"
"You can sleep when you're dead!"
"I don't believe in that quote. I enjoy sleep, thank you very much and I might be almost 29 but I've done this crazy shit already. I want to sleep! It's 4 AM!" My best friend is watching us go back and forth in amusement. "Besides, I've done this all before. I've stayed up all night before, I've gambled before, wandered the boardwalk, I'm not missing out on something at 4 AM!"
"Then why did you even want to come to Atlantic City them if you did it all?"
"FOR THE STRIPPERS!"
"Seriously, Hillary... You're getting married! Stay up!"
"Thanks, Sherlock for pointing that out."
"No, really! You need to take this seriously! You're getting married and when's the next time you're going to be able to pick yourself up and go out to bachelorette parties and go away with your friends anytime you want? Soon enough, you'll have kids and then what? You're going to look back and say 'why did I go to bed at 4AM at my own bachelorette party?'"
"Actually, for your information, the next time I'm going to a bachelorette party is this coming Thursday in Chicago." I stuck my tongue out at her.
My best friend decided to chime in. "She'll also go away on vacation whenever I get married because I want to do something like this for my bachelorette party!"
"And besides, I'll do this when I want to. You can't scare me! If I have kids and I want to go to Atlantic City or Ocean City or Vegas or what have you for vacation with friends, that's why I'll have a husband to stay back and watch the kids!"
I've always been very adamant that when I have kids one day, I'll still continue to do fun things and not claim "oh, I can't do that anymore." My own mother was the mother that made sure to take me everywhere with her because she figured if she was going to have an experience, I should too. My sister had she not just given birth last month would have been at my bachelorette party despite having two little kids at home; same with another close friend who is 7 months pregnant.
"You say that now, Hillary, but just watch."
I gave in much to my cousin's delight.
My 4 AM tongue out face surrounded by my cousin and my best friend before going back out (I changed into my PJs after this pic was taken - because if I had to go back out, I was going to be comfortable!). We were out until 5 AM when I finally put my foot down and said I'm going to sleep!
She thinks it's because her tactics worked.
Nah.
It's because at the end of the day, exhaustion and all, I'm never the first to leave a party and it's hard to go to sleep when I know my friends are out doing stuff!
(Besides, it took 16 years for my best friend and I to finally execute a plan to go spend a night at a hotel and go to the beach - who am I to miss out on this experience with her?)