This Starlett's World: So long, Farewell...

So, friday was a pretty big day.

It was my last day at work, which was sad. My boss, Dee, bought lunch for everyone and also bought me an M&M ice cream cake (in my favorite color of yellow) for lunch. We hired a new girl, Renee to take my place, so I spent most of the day training her as much as I could before I bailed.

Dee let me leave a little early to make an appointment I had at 5 to get my second tattoo. This time I chose to get "Amelia" in script on the inside of my left wrist. For those who don't know, Amelia is my Babci (mom's mom) who passed away in '03. Her story is one of determination and inspiration and I feel honored to have known her.

Unlike Harvey, this one didn't hurt at all. There was a little pinch at the beginning, but the rest was barely noticeable. It took Sean about 2 minutes to finish the whole thing, and I was on my way!

That night at Wendy's house, Emily and I planned a costume party, for which the theme was "Enchanted". So, people could come as a prince, princess, villain or villainess. I decided to be an "awkward, adolescent teenage princess". I went to Goodwill and found a horrid ballet outfit, and orange and pink sports bra, gold rimmed glasses and scrunchies *shudder* I also decided to wear my retainer all throughout the party (I apologize to the people I had to give directions to), black tights woth flowers on them and my blue and orange sneakers.

I was a hot mess. Only I was decidedly NOT hot!

It was such a blast, though. We had all kinds of costumes; a ballerina princess, a pregnant princess, a retro princess, a modern Cinderella, winter Belle, a geisha princess and a mermaid princess. We also had a warrior villain, an evil car mechanic (who charges way too much for terrible service) and a french scuba diver... prince...???? They were the only boys who dressed up, so I didn't complain (much).

We played music and games and even had a costume contest. I went to the $1 store and got some fun summer toys as prizes. The categories were funniest, scariest, most creative, prettiest princess, most lame and best villain. I ended up winning funniest and most creative, but I didn't think it was fair that I won prizes (that I bought) at my own party, so I gave them to the runners-up for each category.

After that we played a game called "murder in the dark". Basically, we draw cards to see who will be the "murderer" and turn out all the lights so we can run around and kill each other. It's weird but fun.

About 2:30 most everyone went home, and the girls who were left crashed in the basement.

An excellent going away party.

The family came to pick me up at about 11:30 to go on VACATION!!!!

More about the vacay later.