“Put A Bird On It!”
Portlandia
Before we get to today's outfit, I need to tell you all a story about the first night of Halloweekend this year. I will give you the short version to hook your interest: Party, Hot Dogs, and a Breathalyzer test. Have I caught your interest? Please proceed...
After I got off of work last night, already prep in my Edie get-up, I headed home to pick up my Andy Warhol (aka Alec) and we drove over to a dance party at my friend Bryce's. After dancing for a little over an hour to an interesting playlist full of glorious 2005 hit pop and rap songs, I drove him home and then headed over to Chase, Conner, Spencer, and Kyle's house to see my favorite guy friends that were visiting from Olympia.
At around 2:00am we decided it would be a good time to get to El Capitan's for a late night snack so we all piled into the Honda and headed over. When I say "all" I really only mean Chase, Dylan, Kyle and myself.
Once we finished the delicious evening forth meal we got back into the car, blasted one of Dylan's CDs and drove back to the boy's house. All of a sudden, the flashing lights were behind me...
I pulled over into a parking lot and Officer Steve came up to the window.
SIDE NOTE*
every cop that I have ever been pulled over by (which is one three times) has had a one syllable name
He told me that he was pulling me over because one of my headlights was out. He then asked me if I had been drink to which I answered no. He said that he could smell alcohol in the car which I then answered was from the boys who had been drinking but we had none in the car and they are all of age. I gave him my license, the insurance card and the registration.
The next step was the field sobriety test. I passed the following the tip of the pen while shining a light right into my eye test, I passed the "take nine steps forward heal-to-toe on an invisible line, turn around and come back" test, and then I blew a solid 0.00 into the breathalyzer.
I bet this kid Steve felt pretty foolish at this point! I mean in his defense it was 2:30 in the morning on a Friday night during Halloween weekend and a girl with way too much eye makeup on is driving around a boy in a track suit, a boy in pajamas, and one in a scuba suit. On any account, I did not appreciate the "the taillight ticket will cost you $300" joke. Yes, he said taillight even though he meant headlight. Well done officer Steve, well done.
I drove away with no warnings, tickets, or anything of the sort. Just three drunk boys and a bad joke.
Let's hope no one decides to pull me over tonight while driving home from work for round two of this event. As fun as it was to take the field sobriety test sober, I don't really want to do it again two nights in a row when the headlight only went out yesterday.
The inspiration for today's outfit is brought to you by, Portlandia! You guys are wonderful beings but you have made it impossible for me to wear my ModCloth bird dress without instantly thinking of you and your infamous episode. I thought that by putting the sack over it as a skirt would help with a turquoise belt donated by Lauren, black Target tights and black-lace boots from Nordstrom but sadly, it did not... Still, the outfit was cute and comfortable while I nannied Jayden all afternoon focussing on building his vocabulary by flipping through the pages of his picture books. He is so wonderful. I feel as if his mom is getting some cheap speech therapy because I am helping this kid without even having a degree! This fact makes me feel amazingly intelligent.
Now I know I promised an Edie and Andy picture but, we have not taken sufficient one yet so you kids will just have to wait until tomorrow!
Don't drink and drive! Find a DD tonight, kids.
Fun fact: Did you notice that you're wearing the bird dress in your profile picture?
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