Not So Secret World of Stephanie: NYE 2009!!!

I have always enjoyed bringing in the New Year, but is even better when it leads into a long weekend. For New Year’s Eve, I invited a couple of friends to come over to the apartment, have some drinks and food and then walk over to Dallas’ outside gathering/celebration.

As soon as I got off of work, I rushed home to meet Ben. We picked up the free wristbands (most pointless thing ever) for the Downtown Celebration Party, ran to Target so Ben could buy a beanie, to the store to pick up food and drinks and then back home to get ready.

I made cupcakes and awesome Jalapeno/Artichoke dip. Ben on the other hand went really gourmet. He heated up some quesadilla rolls and bagel bites. We popped open some champagne and waited for our friends.

My Gay Husband Casey was the first to show up. Since Casey showed up, we decided we could start eating the snackies. Who would have thought that Ben’s food would be gone in less than 30 seconds? Man, those bad boys were good. At least my dip and cupcakes lasted for our other guests.

Soon after the ‘Stuff your face and hide the evidence of other food’ event ended, Jon and Erych showed up. We all had more drinks. I added “Bling String” (as seen on TV!) to mine and Jon’s hair and then… we broke out Catch Phrase. Oh Sweet Jesus! This game is awesome. Especially after everyone has been drinking. Needless to say, we played this for awhile and then Angel and her man showed up and joined the festivities. More Bling String, more Catch Phrase, more inappropriate comments and guesses and of course more drinks.

Finally someone realized we all weren’t just hanging out to play the little electronic nugget of fun known as Catch Phrase. So we all bundled up, took mini bottles of champagne and hid them in our coats, grabbed our noise makers and pop bottle thingys and headed to the Big D NYE Celebration.

Since we left so late for fun, we decided to leave the wristbands and just stand wherever we could. After the extremely noisy walk (Tipsy Jon and Stephanie should never be given noise makers of any kind), we made it to the celebration. Victory Park was nowhere near full, so we got new wristbands and walked into the fun. Jon and I also decided we weren’t impressed by the live band so we made our own music with our noise makers (once again, never let us have these). So while some people were enjoying their drinks and the music, my group decided to have their own fireworks as well…..and by fireworks, 5 million camera flashes for the last paparazzi photo session of the year.

As 2010 got closer, we all pulled out our contraband champagne and made a toast. When the New Year came in, we all mugged down (no, not together), screamed, cheered, made more awful noise with the noise makers and watched the Fireworks. It was so much fun. I am so glad we went and brought in the New Year with some friends.

Finally, we made it back to apartment, had more cupcakes and of course started playing with our new addiction…..Catch Phrase. Needless to say, I had a great night with everyone. And with great nights, come not so great mornings...

Noise maker fun: