To the left you will see a photo from the 2008 December "Girls Night Out"! Pictured from left are Amy Roberson, Melody Monts, yours truly, Kem Wells, and Coy Farley. We are pictured at Pepper's Deli (no girls night out would be complete without great food). We followed up an alcohol free evening with a viewing of "Four Christmases" starring Vince Vaughn and Reese Whitherspoon. For all the laughing we did, it might as well have starred the five of us. I think the funniest thing for me was the realization that "I ain't as young as I used to be". This is not an altogether bad thing, mind you. Let me explain; I lost my group before the movie began. I went to get popcorn and a diet coke (knowing that the diet drink cancels out any calories from the popcorn). The other ladies went to the little girls' room. I turned around and they were gone. So, knowing that the movie previews were surely beginning, I dashed on into the theater to find a seat or to join my group (like the theater was going to be full on a Tuesday night). I scrambled to the next row from the top just in the dark; not seeing any of my group. I moved to the middle leaving enough room for my peeps to sit to my right and settled in...gazing attentively at toward the bottom of the stairs for any one of them to enter the theater. I saw one group of teeny boppers come in and waved a little thinking it was my friends...but alas, NO. THEN, my peeps entered so, in all of my 30 something glory, I stood up and waved my drink with one hand, my popcorn with the other and all the while having my purse strapped across my chest like someone was going to attempt to rip it from me at any moment...then I loudly spoke, "UP HERE! UP HERE!" while waving my arms like I was standing on an aircraft carrier signaling a fighter plane to land. After they headed up, signaled they saw me, began laughing (you know thirty somethings no longer giggle if they are comfortable in their skin) they settled in beside me. Of course a few minutes later, just before the previews ended and the movie began, Coy Jean busted in. She came up the left side of the theater and sat to my left. We all lamented about how age somehow cancels out any embarrassment we somehow might have felt at an earlier age. I stated that when I was in college or high school, I would NEVER have stood up and yelled and waved to get someone's attention--I would have been far too self-conscious. What a difference a decade or so makes?! My friends would say the funniest thing about the evening was me tripping over the ashtray by the ticket booth and scraping my hand against the wall; or me laughing so hard as the credits rolled that I couldn't leave the theater for a few minutes. Upon leaving, of course, we all stood outside freezing our tushes off yapping about the youth of our time, how little they wear these days, and how we must do this again, soon.
I have proposed either a trip to the Aluvian in Greenwood for a spa visit or to the Viking Cooking school...the cooking school was not as exciting to others as it was to me OR I would also postulate a trip to Memphis to the Orpheum to see Menopause the Musical and/or Wicked. I believe we need to gather for an overnight trip sometime very soon even if it is just to go to Nashville to the Opryland Hotel to see the Christmas Lights or the Radio City Music Hall Rocketts Christmas Extravaganza. Heck, I believe we could even make a party out of going to the mailbox. Regardless of what we do, we have to make this a much more frequent event! Toodles to you and Merry Christmas!
