WW: Awesome 80s Prom!

I love my friends.

No really.

My friends are flipp'n fantastic and I'll tell you why.

When I said I wanted to do the Awesome 80s Prom for my bachelorette party my friend's didn't look at me like I was crazy. No! They didn't think, wtf is wrong with you, why would you want to relive the 80s? No! They didn't scoff at me and tell me it was stupid to get dressed up and hit the town like we did the time warp again.

Instead they rose to the occasion, and boy, did they EVER turn it out for this party!

My fabulous cousin Jaclyn planned everything to a T, organized the girls, and got e-invites out to everyone, all while she was preggers. She couldn't join us day of (nursing a baby is kind of killer on your social life) but she was a very integral part of this fabulous event. Day of, Casey took the lead and hosted 8 girls in her house (we actually were expecting more than 12 originally but some NH ladies stayed in the City instead) and if ever there were an event for Casey to be on point, this was it.

She went all out. I showed up at her house and this is what I was met with:

Slowly but surely the girls started showing up and
we started teasing and spraying like crazy.
I think this is why all photos from the 80s are mad blurry,
because of the hair spray in the air!

When everyone was dressed we walked to the LIRR station a few blocks away.
But not before snapping some fantastic photos.

Chrissy & me, she had the most fabulous dress!

The sister, the soon to be sister, Meg, and me.

Is it just me, or does Julianne look FIERCE in this photo.
Totally loved the Joan Jett look she was going for.

Chrissy killing it.

Singing along to Madonna on the train.

We made new friends, they took our photo.

She loves rock and roll.
Subway to the prom!

I love the lurker in this photo, and his expression to Casey trying to lick my face.

The ladies of the Shire!
Chelsea, Meg, Kerri, Hana, and Jenn look'n fab.

Although I'll be Jason's wife after July 3rd, Veebs has been my Wifey since college.

Rock'n out. I just realized Mel went for the Sloane Peterson look, LOVE IT.


Laura and Casey take a breather.

Smashley got a second chance to wear her Gem dress!

I like this one mostly because you get a good look at the fanny pack Casey wore.
It was epic.

And here she is with her killer dance moves.
And yes, she wore a thong leotard.
And yes, people were coming up to her all night long telling her:
"Damn, you've got balls."

And like classy bitches we bough more beer in Penn Station.
And drank it from brown paper bags on the ride home.

So I had the sweetest little conversation with Amanda no the train ride home. She was basically just super excited that she'd finally have a sister, which I thought was so incredibly sweet of her to say. She grew up with two older brothers and no in-house female cohort.

Julibean and I pretty much told her we're a package deal, and that she's getting two sisters for the price of one. Amanda seemed okay with the deal :P


In review:

1. Top night!
2. I have the greatest friends EVER
3. If you decide to go to Prom, make sure you buy a package with drinks included. Trust me it's worth it! Amanda bought a round of shots and it was like $50+ ...for 4 shots. We assumed they'd be crazy NYC drink prices, but $18 for a shot is a little overpriced and the drinks in the packages are only like $5-7 each.
   

DPF: The 80s were AWESOME

Tomorrow for my bachelorette the girls and I are going to the Awesome 80s Prom. It's going to be EPIC. I'm going for the Madonna rolling around on the floor in a wedding dress look. Fantastic photos to follow...

For today's dance party Friday I'd like to glace back at what I was doing around this time in say, 1987. Although I was only two, I remember it well.

My Aunt Nancy would come over (almost every day) with my cousin David. While Nancy and Mama chatted in the kitchen, Dave and I would watch Sleeping Beauty. ALMOST EVERY DAY.

We would take turns hiding under the covers when Maleficent reared her ugly head and swirled into green hurricanes and flames to move around.

Our mothers would find it hilarious that we would shout things like, "Touch the bindle!" at each other while we were playing.

In celebration of that simpler time, please enjoy Prince Phillip's dance of rejoicing:


(Image borrowed from someone fantastic on Tumblr.)

Jaclyn's Ridiculous Night Out

As I mentioned when we were baking, Jaclyn isn't your typical bride to be. So having a typical balls to the wall - clubbing, dancing, drinking, stripper extravaganza - bachelorette party was not in the cards. Instead we went to the wonderful 27 Om Spa for a day of pampering.

My facial was incredible it was the oddest feeling. I'd never had one before so it was definitely an interesting experience. My massage was wonderful and she finally worked that darn kink out of my back that has been bothering me forever. The ladies at the spa were fantastic, the service was excellent, and most importantly of all Jaclyn got to sit back and relax.

While she was out running errands though, we broke into her condo and decorated. Yeah...we went a little crazy.

That is totally a penis pinata and I totally put stickers on him
to make him a one eyed monster with his tongue hanging out!

After the Spa we met at the Cheesecake Factory and had a delicious dinner full of even more penes. We had a little giggle over the fact that our waiter took our glasses with these ridiculous straws sticking out of them back and forth from the bar as we got refills. He was a good sport about it at least.We got back to Jaclyn's and the night of fun continued with a few more drinks, some snacky foods, and the penis pinata. Turns out he makes an excellent hat when split down the middle and emptied.Originally we were just going to watch 80s movies like Girls Just Want to Have Fun and Sixteen Candles but somehow we got quite involved in the extended Purity Test and spent a lot of time ridiculing everyone's answers. Final scores ranged from 71% all the way down to 27% yeah, that's right 27%.

Then we went for a few rounds of Pin the Macho on the Man.Let me tell you, this was AMAZINGLY entertaining. Especially when Jess wound up about four feet away from the poster.All in all it was a fantastic night and I couldn't have imagined Jaclyn's bachelorette party any other way. Can't wait till October 25th!!!

Size Really Matters

...when it comes to penis cookies, it definitely does!

That's right, I said it. And that's right, we did go there.

Last night the Beaner and I baked penis cookies for Jaclyn's bachelorette party on Saturday. Now, our lovely sousin is NOT the type of girl to do any of the following:

• Go clubbing
• Go out drinking
• Be humiliated in public
  
• Enjoy a stripper's junk in her face

So because Jaclyn is quite tame we decided on a spa day, dinner and then a girly sleepover filled to the brim with 80s classics like Pretty in Pink and Girls Just Wanna Have Fun. However, we still gotta have a little ridiculousness and that is why we chose to make penis cookies and cock-cakes. (Yes, we have a penis shaped cupcake pan that my sister bought which lead to priceless phrases from my mother like, "The penis pan really needs to come off the kitchen counter.")

Apparently penis cookie cutters are a little harder to come by and although Julibean had the original thought of buying a dog bone cookie cutter and improvising from there, we wound up doing free-style peni.

Hilarity ensued.

Not only did we make them FAR too big and they merely flattened into blobs, but the running commentary from my mother was quite incredible.

"I think I've said the word penis more times in the past hour than I have in my entire life."

I really do love my mother sometimes. Despite the fact that while we were forming these inappropriate cookies she was trying to give us an anatomy lesson...never fails when you have a science teacher for a mom.

Apparently penis cookie baking is more of an art form than we originally anticipated. Size really does matter and they need to be made very very tiny. Minuscule even. Upon realizing the first batch imploded to gargantuan sizes, I went about slicing the rest lengthwise to thin them out. Eventually I gave up and just made super tiny peni and those came out fine.

So tonight, we make cock-cakes with cream cheese frosting.