On Saturday I did this cray thing where I road a bus for 10 hours to go to a 4 hour event. And the even more ridiculous part of it was that I realized I was doing this on the Friday night before I left. The plans had been made for over a week and it was Friday night when I realized that there would be a ten hour bus ride for a total of 4 hours in New York City.
But the event was Getting Gorgeous. And I didn't go at BlogHer last year and I'm not going to BlogHer this year (I'm not, I'm really, really not for all you people who are convinced I am going to change my mind), so this was my one opportunity to get gorgeous. I was traveling with Elena and Jessica and the whole thing seemed less stupid in my head than it was at 6 am Saturday morning when my alarm went off.
Here is the thing about me. I don't get on a bus at 8 am and go to NYC. I don't ride buses. I take trains and stay for weekends and have the whole thing planned out months in advice. I say no to events that take me away from my family. I'm a very safe girl. I got married at 26, had a baby at 30, and did everything I was supposed to do. Always.
But sometimes, you need a do something with your girlfriends that seems, to everyone around you, crazy. To sit on a bus for 10 hours laughing about the most inane things. The get off a bus, hop in a cab who doesn't know where he is going, and get handed a mimosa. To get your hair and makeup done and be given shoes and talk about jeans.
I'm still exhausted. But it was so, so much fun. And my goal for the next 35 years of my life, is to just have more fun. To take more chances. To say yes more often to things that seem ridiculous and crazy and impossible. Because I can ride a bus for 10 hours to go to a 4 hour event. Especially when the makeup artist insists on telling me what a beautiful face I have.
It was really not a bad way to spend a Saturday afternoon. But next time I want to stay over night and have more champagne and take in a Broadway show.
***I paid for my own transportaion to Getting Gorgeous, the event was free and we were given products, including the shoes and makeup I linked to in this post.
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Thank you for coming!! We REALLLLLLLYYYYYYY appreciate the trip. You were part of what made the event so special.
There was definite laughing! The whole thing seems surreal to me, even after the fact. I woke up this morning wondering if my weekend was a dream.
The shoes are gonna be this week’s Shoe Friday, right?
I went to Seattle for the weekend, for the Nintendo 3DS shindig. Similarly crazy.
So glad you broke out of your comfort zone and did something awesome!
That shoe website has some pretty wild designs, but I’m still not sure if I like any of them, or if they’re too weird for me.