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September 28, 2008
A Little Strange
It's 11:30 pm, and there is crazy rave music blaring outside our house.
Women in short dresses and high boots are hoola-hooping like I never knew was possible. People are clustered together, drinks in hand, laughing, talking. There is a 12 foot yellow and orange simulated fire somehow projected on the side of our house, the flames moving with the music. Tiki torches are burning all over the place. A random man just came into our living room looking for the bathroom. This is not how our evening usually goes. But our neighbors are having a block party.
We live in a four-unit condo building. It is built down a hill, with one unit in front of the other. This block party starts at the top and goes all the way down, running the entire length of our building. We were going to get a hotel room for the night, but the kids fell asleep in our back room, thanks to two loud box fans.
Its a little strange to step outside your front door and into a party.
It was fun for a bit.... but now I am ready to go to sleep, and I don't know if that is going to be possible before about 4 am. There is an extension cord running from the portable photo booth outside through our front door and into the outlet in our living room. This was ok at 4 in the afternoon, but now we want to shut our front door. Apparently when Juan gets here, he will move the photo booth to a different level of the party yard, and we will finally be able to shut our front door.
Which leads me to the question... who the heck is Juan?
Is this even really MY life?
Posted by darby on 02:25 AM | Comments (16)