My entry for the challenge -- The Lonely Canadian Writer

[ Show ]

Support VoyForums

[ Shrink ]

VoyForums Announcement: Programming and providing support for this service has been a labor of love since 1997. We are one of the few services online who values our users' privacy, and have never sold your information. We have even fought hard to defend your privacy in legal cases; however, we've done it with almost no financial support -- paying out of pocket to continue providing the service. Due to the issues imposed on us by advertisers, we also stopped hosting most ads on the forums many years ago. We hope you appreciate our efforts.

Show your support by donating any amount. (Note: We are still technically a for-profit company, so your contribution is not tax-deductible.) PayPal Acct: Feedback:

Donate to VoyForums (PayPal):

[ Login ] [ Contact Forum Admin ] [ Main index ] [ Post a new message ] [ Search | Check update time | Archives: 1, 2, 3, [4] ]

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Date Posted: 00:58:32 07/30/05 Sat GMT-5
Author: Lori
Author Host/IP: S0106000cf1ebde70.cg.shawcable.net / 68.145.251.101
Subject: My entry for the challenge

It's a shade over the limit (like myself at the moment!). Hope the judges will go easy on me.

Cheers,

Lori

Happy 1985 �

One New Year�s Eve a long time ago, a good friend of mine and my roommate�s was out of the country, so we decided to have another New Year�s Eve party on Canada Day Eve, halfway through the year. We lived in the main floor and basement (which we sublet to some other friends) of an old house downtown, and the basement was the only space big enough to have a party in.

We decided it would be a formal party. We cleaned the basement like it probably had never been cleaned before. We moved the stereo and as many chairs as we could get our hands on downstairs. The rafters were festooned with black and white garlands and black and white balloons, and posters of our favourite movie stars covered as much of the walls as we could manage. We cut flowers from the beds and bushes in the yard and put them in vases. We had cheese and grapes and chips and cold cuts and oysters and pate and olives and pizza that our guests brought. We all looked fantastic: the ladies all wore vintage dresses (mine was a strapless green brocade sheath � ooh la la), and most of the guys at least wore ties, many even wore suits. And we also had liquor. Yes, we had a bit of that. Beer, wine, vodka, Jack Daniels�. I was drinking something called a Velvet Hammer, which was made of champagne and stout.

We listened to Big Band music all night: Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, The Dorsey Brothers. It seemed like a New Year�s Eve kind of thing to do. And of course, at midnight, we had Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians (my dad always called him �Guy Bumlardo�) with �Auld Lang Syne�. Plenty of kissing ensued. Then someone got the bright idea that we might be able to see the Canada Day fireworks they always do on Prince�s Island Park, forgetting that the fireworks actually happen the night of July 1st. A bunch of us went out to see if we could see them, drinks in hand, cigarettes dangling from our lips. We wandered around for the better part of an hour before we either gave up or forgot what brought us out in the first place. I broke the heel off my pump and ended up walking home in stocking feet.

Things get a little hazy after that. I know I was up for some time after we got back. Then the next thing I recall was waking up about eight AM, going to the bathroom, and going to the kitchen for a drink of water. It reminded me of that scene in Gone With the Wind where they have all the casualties of the Civil War lain out in row after forlorn row. I�m stepping over all these bodies on my living room floor, some I recognize, some I don�t know from Adam. It�s early in the morning, but it�s already hot; Canada Day that year would prove to be a scorcher. Do I have any Canada Day resolutions? You bet.

No more Velvet Hammers!

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Replies:

Re: My entry for the challenge -- Roger, 23:29:51 07/31/05 Sun GMT-5