NYE 2011
fresh platinum: check. awesome black Miranda Caroligne dress: check. 3 pairs of shoes: check. false eyelashes, with spare glue: check. xtra contact lenses: check. red bull: check. champagne: check. protein bars: check. warm furry fleece Tamo Design coat: check. 3+ fantastic parties to attend in the next 12 hrs: check. ♥ Jay Oberhelman to kiss at midnight and beyond: check. BRING IT ON, 2011.
i wrote that facebook status update at 6:15pm on friday, December 31 2010 and then got up off of the couch to get in the shower and get ready to head out to dinner and then the long night of NYE. i was a bit giddy and did a little jump/skip/woohoo! move as i crossed the room. as soon as my feet hit the ground, i felt something in my neck snap/crackle/pop. i knew it was bad because it didn’t really hurt but instead i was instantly nauseous. and shocked. ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? my back/neck pain had subsided to a quietly annoying ache over the past couple of weeks, i was back to my of my regular routines at the gym (except yoga), and NOW, on NEW YEAR’S EVE, i do a little bunny hop and everything goes out of whack?? i was stunned. and pissed. is this really how my year would end? i really thought i was almost recovered.
i didn’t want to believe that my night my possibly be ruined before i left the house, but i couldn’t really turn my head. so instead of getting ready on time i swallowed a handful of ibuprofen and went back upstairs to bed and lay there with a heading pad wrapped around my neck. after a while i got up and slowly got ready, but was a bit deflated. would i be able to enjoy even some of the party like this, let alone make it an epic adventure? GAH.
the show must go on, i said, and so there was a substantial amount of MIND OVER MATTER and self medication. a little too much self-medication. eventually we got to the party where jay was to DJ a 12:30am set. it was a massive underground event that, unfortunately, suffered the fate of so many massive undergrounds before it: cops at the door before midnight even happened. but our team was prepared and the after-party, which was thankfully within walking distance, became the now-party and while it was sad that so many people were scurried out into the cold, wet, raining streets of san francisco before they could even toast the new year, we rebounded pretty quickly. and then it was dance dance dance all night long.
we left that party at around 7:30AM and cruised by Breakfast of Champions, the epic all-day New Year’s Day event, but the line was around the block, it was raining, and we just weren’t Champions enough to stand in line in the rain for an unknown amount of time to get in. also, by then my neck was starting to really hurt and jay was totally exhausted, so it was over the bridge and off to bed….
New Year’s Day was rough for me as after being up all night i couldn’t really fall asleep with the neck pain. Jay was less incapacitated than i was and got up and went to Tahoe to go skiing. he’s still there. i made it out of bed in time to go have dinner with some friends, and then, mostly because i had been in bed all day, went out that night to see Modeselektor and danced until 2:30am sunday morning.
then yesterday i went to jason’s and hung out with him and Neva and the hot tub.
and now it’s the first Monday of 2011 and i’m not really sure how i feel about it all.
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