Fun!

This week’s challenge challenge was to do something just for fun.  This is hard for me because I have a lot of things I should be doing that could technically never end, like reading, writing, and worrying.  This means that any time I’m doing something unnecessary, I feel a little bit of guilt… like as I write this blog, or when I watch TV or when I read non-school books, etc.  I still do these things mind you, but I feel guilty.  So, doing something, an activity I guess, just for fun is highly unnecessary and requires effort and planning… therefore it is a source of even more guilt.  In the back of my mind a little voice says, Just stay home and get to bed early. If you make plans with friends, then you have to organize people, get dressed up, leave the house and then you’ll be up later than usual and you need to run tomorrow and you need to read.  Even if you don’t really need to read, you could be getting ahead.  Don’t waste your time.  Don’t be so frivolous with your time! Oh, the voice.  It’s not fun at all.

But, I was determined to thwart the voice this week and so I decided I would go out, listen to some music and dance!  I love to dance and I don’t do it enough.  I found a place in Grandview with two levels of patio and a band playing.  The best part is that it was a cover band (called SWAGG).  A cover band, to me, is awesome because I get to sing along to the songs like there was a DJ, but it’s a real band, which is a little more exciting than a DJ.  So anyway, Friday night was the night.  I invited my friend Nicole from ODE and OSU and her husband Richard.  I got dressed up while preparing myself with some pre-music (which obviously involved Summertime by DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince and, hello, Gold Digger) and we met up at around 9:30.  The band played at ten, so we got some drinks and chatted for a bit.  Once the band started, we watched and listened and when the music was just right, got up to dance!  And, can you believe it, this cover band played hip hop covers!  I mean they played other things too, but how awesome is that?  Kanye, Black-Eyed Peas, and even old school Snoop!  It was good dancing music.  And the crowd at this place was just right… a few oldies, a few youngins, but mostly people our age.  Nicole and I even made some temporary girlfriends out on the dance floor!  We took a few dancing breaks to say hi to Richard and Dan and cool off on the patio.  By about 12:30, I was ready to call it a night.  Not too late and still at peak fun-ness!

I need to do this more often.  This is, after all, my last year as a twenty-something.  This challenge was one of my favorites and a huge success (nothing like trying to be patient).