10! 9! 8! ...

At this point in the night the ssssss's were sssssluring like what!! the dinner and mixer part of the party was over and now was time for the actual guests to arrive so we could start dancing. bobby and I had compiled a mix of the greatest hits from the 70's, 80's, 90's and beyond. I shall tell the rest of the story in pictures

the first guests to arrive were paloma and amanda. "herro!!"
Cathy and ivan are very excited to see that the ladies had a nice time dining at the clam sssssslammer. "hey guyssss!" cathy's greeting for every asian that came in was "herrrroooo azians!! serioulsy cristina, what the fuck wiht all the azians here!!??"
then jorge and leanne arrived
heeey!! But we were a little more excited by the arrival of the guest of honor!
ivan is very excited to see his ex lover, hello kitty.
"kisses!!"
GAY!
We knew the party was getting serious when the captain hat came out.
i would liek to say this was cathy's last drink, but sadly, it was one of many. Cathy! put down the pitcher!
my michigan peeps arrived to party wiht us, but sadly this was the last we saw of them since they really couldn't hang with us. Talk about not being able to hold your liquor. An hour after this Hugo was vomitting falling on furniture, vomitting on the roof.
OG Roomates! Awe so cute.
as you can see teh pictures start getting a little more crooked and off sides. Harajuku and amanduuuuuuuuuh
random shots of cathy dancing. i tthink they speak for themselves. Before these pictures were taken the speakers went out and all we had was bass with no treble. we all tried to fix it and cathy kept yelling "this is the WORST NEW YEARS EVER!!! we didnt' even get to listen to fergalicious! the worst!!! i hate everything!!! how wretched!" Our alternate plan was to turn on the magic mic and karaoke for the rest of the night. we turned it on adn cathy started singing "jitterbug! da da da jitterbug!! you put the boom boom into my smiiiiiile." Bobby and i looked at each other and quickly unplugged the mic. vince worked on it and in the end we ended up with sub par speakers but at least we could still sing "i'll be tasty tasty!" Pictures of cathy dancing to fergalicious. It was one of those things where she said the next day she thought she looked really sexy but then saw the pics and was liek "oh my god!!" it was like the scene in beerfest.

it's amazing that she didn't pass out after this picture
I love this picture because it has so many stories going on:
-first off the girl in the green was from michigan and was being a total buzz kill. like seriously! she got so drunk that she was slipping all over the place and then started yelling "did you knowthat i'm bleeding from when i fell earlier!! and then kept sticking herself in random pictures
-fernando was really drunk and trying to get on paloma, but i don't think he knew that she had just been dining at the clam slammer earlier that night.
-before fernando got there ivan's goal of the night was to see if fernando was gay or straight and part of this was that ivan was "giving him eyes" all night and trying to dance with him. I think teh key word here is "trying" as you can see ivan "trying" in this shot
-it looks like bobby is looking at cathy's luscious breassssts with disgust and cathy is having a moment with her drink and the song.
i think after this picture was taken paloma and amanda snuck off to ivan's roommate's room to do god knows what and it was at that point (and after them making out all over the party) that we decided that lesbians are officialy the best party accessory ever
ivan again "trying" to seduce fernando. the funny thing is that when we went on the roof ivan started grinding on fernando and fernando was pushing him away in horror. david goes to me "look, fernando looks really uncomfortable." and literlaly 2 seconds later ivan comes up to me and goes "oh my god he's sooooo gay!! he wants me sooooo bad!!!" I didn't have the heart to tell him the truth because, well, it was just too funny to watch. You cant' tell but ivan is pushing paloma out of this shot, her hand is in the center.
fucking fernando ruined a really good picture of us
cathy and i at midnight. woo!! it was that beer that really did her in i think. I mean, just look at her. it's like she's sucking on mother's milk.
well fernando vomitted and we stuck him in a cab, cathy booted and passed out on ivan's bed. ivan passed out right next to her and bobby and nuria passed out respectively.
it was a great party. me, david, and vince, decided to take bobby home since he lives around the corner, and i tell you, watching vince and david carry bobby home was like a scene from weekend at bernie's. especially when the cops drive by us and we had to play it cool like bobby was actually conscious. How i got bobby up 3 flights of stairs, i do not know, but he proceeded to run to the bathroom to do god knows what where he consequently locked himself in. the next 15 minutes consisted of me talking to bobby through the door "bobby just turn the lock" and him responding by pouding on the door and saying "crisssssty. i don't want to be in this ssssssituation any more than you do." I thought bobby was just turning the lock the wrong way but it turned out he was sitting on the floor scratching at the door trying to literally claw his way out. His roommate had to crawl through the window to free him.

the next morning i headed over the the boys apartment. I walked in and saw that dan and his friends sitting on the couch singing in the mag mic "it's like raaaaaaain on your weddding day!" This led to a nice little morning hang over karaoke sess. i sang "total eclipse of the heart" and dan wooed us with rendition of "down on bended knee." then the saddest part of teh morning came when ivan started singing "all by myself" liek he really was the saddest girl to ever hold a martini. then we all went to a sports bar in the marina to watch teh rose bowl and the one thing that everyone kept saying as they looked at the pictures was "wait, we went on the roof?? i don't remember going on the roof!!" but here is the highlight of my morning. seeing that i had in fact filmed cathy doing her "sexy" dances to nelly furtado's maneater. this was the only song cathy wanted to hear all night and so she was very excited when it came on. I wish the quality of this video was better but it was dark in the room and i was drunk. the sound really says it all.

the next morning she refused to watch herself, citing that it was too painful.

The best part is that she's yelling "don't play this song if you don' t want me to dance!" I didn't play the song, she did. at the end of the video her face goes all crazy. upon further inspection we realized this was in fact not her "maneater" face but actually hugo and spilled his drink all down her back and so she was shocked. i think my next purchase is going to be a camera and i'm gonna take better videos with actual color and light and where you can see them.

alas that was new years, an average day in the life of us. damn it feels good to be a gansta