there's nothing better than an alcoholic evening with 40 of your closest friends...
wow. i mean really... wow. the party this year was just amazing. the location was awesome. we had an easy time decorating, it was big, isolated and really perfect for what we needed. the weather was also cooperative... cool but not cold, and definately not raining. and the people... it was so great how many people showed up!
to go with the theme this year i decided that my main decorating idea would be pictures from the previous years. so i went and bought rolls of wrapping paper and found a piece of thick cardboard from my art days, cut it into one inch strips and then gathered all the pictures i had printed (about 300)together. i poured myself a huge drink and sat on the floor with it all in front of me. i decided to use the strips to stabilize the ends of the wrapping paper, then just roll out the paper and put pictures all over it. it seemed like a cheesy idea at first, but as i worked i got into it and the flow of captain made me sentimental. luckily, they went over at the party just as well, if not better. everyone made a pass around the room at least once or twice to check it all out. it was amazing to have the last 7 years laid out like that... it was definately a stroke of genius on my part.
so when we finally headed home at 9 in the morning, i was pretty drunk but feeling good about myself. the party had been a blast, i had won the potato gun in the gift exchange (finally) and i was pretty sure i had over 300 pictures to commemorate this final party. we went to waffle house for a morning pick me up and then headed home to sleep it all off. it wasn't until 6 hours later when i woke up very out of sorts that i realized i had neither my camera OR my potato gun. i looked everywhere and finally figured out that i had left the camera in josh's car, but he was already back in savannah (damn) and that the last time i remember having the potato gun was before the pinata when i was outside seeing some people off and taking pictures of their departure. so somewhere between two in the morning and 9 in the morning it disappeared. my initial thought was that someone had taken it... but who would do that to me? i'd be rather insulted if someone came to my party and then stole my gag gift from me. so i must have just left it at the clubhouse, right?
well, we went back to clean up at 6 and found that the forstners had beat us there. i don't know how long they had been at it, but a lot of it was already cleaned up. huey and i hopped in and finished it off, but i realized that if my potato gun had been there we would have found it by now. so either someone took it or it got thrown away in the cleanup. since i haven't been able to verify either so far, it is kind of frustrating me...
so now i have to turn my attention to real christmas. and after that we have a parade of people coming in and out of town that we have to catch up with at some point or another. and then is new years in hilton head! it's going to be a hectic couple of weeks off of school, i can tell.
but i'd just get bored sitting around on my ass anyways...
