Please leave you comments and let me know what you think of this video… I had tears in my eyes laughing at this!
Last night, Steph, Caleb, and I got dressed up as an 80’s workout video. I was supposed to be Richard Simmons, but it didn’t work out so well; although a small handful of people guessed it correctly!
We brought a 16 pound boom box down with us, with a cd I ripped right before we left of a bunch of hits from the 80’s. We played that CD about 4 or 5 times, and walked up and down 6th Street. They block that road off, and it is completely packed with people in costumes. Amanda went with us as Marilyn Monroe. She looked really good, too.
We had no clue that we’d get such a positive response! SO many people stopped and danced with us as we danced our way down the road with the 80’s blasting from the heavy 8 D-battery boombox sitting on my shoulder. Caleb brought 2 dumbbells to work out with. We had quite a few people ask us to take pictures with them. A couple times, we would set the boombox on the ground, and all 3 of us would dance for a few minutes. You can see in the pictures, we would gather quite a crowd with people taking photos and videos. At one point, a photographer took my name down, and said that he worked for the Daily Texan Newspaper, then said “thanks for keeping the party alive!” Wow! What a compliment. At one point, for about an hour, we had a group of 4 or 5 girls who would follow us to each dance spot and dance with us.
This was our playlist:
Obsession by Animotion
Video Killed the Radio Star by The Buggles
Karma Chameleon by Culture Club
Come On Eileen by Dexys Midnight Runners
Hungry Like The Wolf by Duran Duran
Sweet Dreams by Eurythmics
One Thing Leads to Another by The Fixx
Relax by Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Something About You by Level 42
Our House by Madness
Addicted to Love by Robert Palmer
Tainted Love by Soft Cell
Rock This Town by Stray Cats
Everybody Wants to Rule the World by Tears for Fears
Hold Me Now by Thompson Twins
867-5309/Jenny by Tommy Tutone
Everybody Have Fun Tonight by Wang Chung
For 3 1/2 hours we danced, I carried that 16 pound boombox the entire time. Today, we are as sore as a bunch of old folks. My back and arms ache, and Stephanie’s neck and body is in pain. I’ve never seen Caleb limp like he was on the way to the car last night! Haha!
We are making some big plans for next year! It’s going to be much bigger and better than this one. More people, louder boombox, better costumes: BIGGER DANCE PARTY!!
Thao. How lovely.
How would you feel if...
You were a barista or a juicer-person at Jamba Juice, & you made someone a drink, they took 1 sip, & dropped it in the trash on their way out the door. They never make eye contact with you, or say a word; they just drop it in the trash and keep walking.
How would you feel?
New homebuyer evicted
Here’s the scenario I walked into- a girl closes on her first home a week ago. She’s slowly cleaning it up, moving her stuff in; and this morning, she decided she was going to paint. She goes to her new house, and not only does her key no longer work, but the locks were actually GONE, replaced by a different set; and the yard had been mowed.
She calls her broker, and he doesn’t know what’s going on, either! The broker calls us to go out there, let her back in, and replace the locks.
SO, I go out there, and it turns out, the bank that owned the house before accidentally sent a maintenance company out there to winterize the house, thinking it was vacant. So the water and gas had been shut off, breakers had all been flipped, pipes were completely winterized. Needless to say, the broker got that situation taken care of as fast as he could, and I got her back on her feet with a new lock on her front door that worked great.
I felt really bad for her, though. First house, and that happens. Sucks!
