Sunday, March 20, 2005
No, I didn't lose the link to my dashboard and no I didn't forget my password. I have just been exceptionally busy with life.
My oldest son has something that he has to do every night of the week and since my wife works until 8 pm most nights I am elected to run the shuttle service. So between trips running him somewhere and picking him up from somewhere I have to figure out what to fix for supper and get it started before she gets home so it will be ready to eat shortly after she hits the door.
The week berfore last was dedicated to getting the house ready for his 14th birthday party. He wanted to have a boy/girl party. Several of the boys that were invited were the same ones that he plays music with so they brought their guitars and amps with them. The girls were mostly the boys girlfriends (duh, imagine that) plus a few un attached females as well.
There were about 15 here for the party, not a huge party, but plenty enough to have fun.
When the pizzas were delivered they attacked like a pack of starving wolves. Five large pizzas and 3 orders of breadsticks dissappeared in nothing flat! They also had a bag of just about every type of chip offered in the chip aisle of the grocery store. Add to that a dozen or so 2 liter bottles of pop and they were set.
Ever had 15 kids around 14 years old in your house enjoying the sugar buzz of a lifetime???? WOW! They played TWISTER in the kitchen (not nude and no crisco) then they retired to the front room for the musical entertainment portion of the evening.
My son and I had spent one whole evening getting the front room ready for this part of the party. We had hung blacklights around the room, set up the lavalamps and the electric storm lights as well. Add a few neon glow item scattered around the room for the "POP" factor when the lights went out and it was almost ready. Last thing that needed done was to weave around the outside of my sons drumkit with flourescent fishing line. Everyone knew it was going to look cool when they noticed the fishing line on the drums earlier in the evening.
What they didn't notice was that we also had taken several feet of that same fishing line and snipped it into random pieces about an inch long and scattered them all over the carpeting .
When the lights went out and the blacklights came on it looked like the floor was covered with little glow worms. They freaked out, it was the coolest thing they had ever seen......... kids are so easy :)
After they tired of jamming to every song they knew how to play and several that they didn't know how to play......... it was nearing 11 pm and time to load up into the van ( yeah, I volunteered to drive em all home) for the ride around town to drop them off in the order that took the longest amount of time and starting with the "single" kids so that the "couples" would have more time to sit together and SNEAK holding hands. Of course my sons Girlfriend had to be the very last one dropped off. Barely got her home before midnight but that was OK with her 'rents cause they knew who she was with and where she was.
All in all his first party was a success, i guess.
Now he is wanting to plan an outside, nightime, bonfire, music jam, dance, party for later this year during the summer so no one has to go home so early.............
