One, sure, but I've gone to I can't even remember how many of your mashups and bubblegum outings and miscellaneous 20th-century costume parties. After this, the next time we dress up to go out it has to be dressing up for (a) another planet, (b) the future, or (c) sometime so long ago that there's nobody still alive who can remember everybody dressing that way unironically.

Don't get all high-handed with me, Missy. My dance thingies involve actual physical activity instead of contradancing which I don't know how to do.

So while I don't mind the getting dressed up part, I don't know any partner dance moves so it is more stressful than fun for me to do something where I'm trying to do some jitterbug pass or line dance / scottish reel dothingie.

That is not going dancing to me. That is effort and homework.

The last thing we went to you spent the whole time dancing with people you knew from Dickens Faire anyway.

In the neverending quest to expand people's vocabulary, today I bring you the following phrase: hot spong. Used in the 19th century to refer to the sudden heat following the sun emerging from behind a cloud. I urge everyone today to solicit local opinions on hot spong.

JZ, someday we should get together, temporarily dump the husbands, and go out and pick up hottie reenactor guys or something. There was this one at the 4th of July thing I went to that I thought of as Hottie McRedcoat--I actually was too shy to talk to him, because I was afraid I'd blurt out something like, "Who knew? Mrs. Bennet and her ditzy younger daughters were right--there is something about a scarlet coat!"

contradancing which I don't know how to do

You could learn. I know you could. I have such faith in you!

::connivingly flutters eyelashes, looks adoring::

hot spong

It sounds somehow... dirty.

contradancing which I don't know how to do.

Oh please -- basic contra takes all of five minutes to learn. If you can walk in rhythm, you can contra dance.

basic contra takes all of five minutes to learn

Yeah. It's beating it in 12 minutes without losing a life that's hard.

t /super-duper dorky

If you can walk in rhythm, you can contra dance.

Dang.

I keep forgetting to go Contra Dancing! The next tiime isn't until Aug 12. I need to stick a note over my computer so I'll see it.

Yeah. It's beating it in 12 minutes without losing a life that's hard.

My brother's been playing a lot of Doom. I never realised this game was so funny.