Seven Quick Hot! Date! Takes

1. Yesterday, at 8:30 AM I piled my children and their necessary overnight items into the car and proceeded to risk all three of our lives on Interstate 5. It was pouring - POURING - rain and everyone knows that Seattleites do not know how to drive in the rain. (INCLUDING MYSELF, OMG, HYDROPLANING, ACK!) I kept going, however, because I had a Hot! Date! and if only I made it alive to my parents' house (and back) I could sleep in on Friday morning. THIS IS WHAT I WILL DO TO SLEEP IN.

2. It is now Friday morning. Obvs did not die. Also: slept in till 8:15. When is the last time THAT happened? I will tell you: PRE-MY-FREAKISHLY-EARLY-RISING-CHILDREN, that's when. It feels delicious. The only way it could feel more delicious is if I weren't slightly, ah, dehydrated. Can't have everything!

3. We went here, which is kind of like going out to dinner with a couple hundred strangers and the circus. We've been once before, but this time was better. It was funnier and louder and the friends we dragged along, all newbies to cabaret, LOVED it. We felt very proud of ourselves, and relieved that the food was excellent and the acts were jaw dropping and the drag queen didn't feel compelled to come over and talk to our one friend who might have died of horror. (He DID come talk to ME and I told him he was FABULOUS because he WAS. OMG. THE SHOES! THE WIGS! THE PASTIES!)

4. There was one act I can't stop thinking about. It was one of those Cirque Du Soleilish things where two people are hoisting themselves up filmy little scarves, twisting and spinning and you think their entire bodies must be made of pure muscle. They were two tiny and adorable blond people and not two minutes into their show you got the very profound feeling that these two were IN LOVE. And you know, a lot of times that's for the benefit of the act, right? Like ice skaters and Dancing With The Stars contestants. But this was intense. For one thing the act was GORGEOUS. I mean, it was amazing and possibly the most jaw dropping of them all (this man could balance that girl's entire weight on his NECK) but it was also incredibly and weirdly beautiful and, I don't know, EMITTING LOVE. So of course, as soon as it was over, my friend and I pounced on the programs in the middle of our table to look them up and YES! They are MARRIED! And they had a baby in JULY! HOLY CATS! And then my friend and I were practically in tears because SOB, how ROMANTIC! And during the salad course they wheeled the baby around and showed him off. And we cried ALL OVER AGAIN. (We are Big Fat Dorks.)

5. Sometimes I think I like Teatro Zinzanni so much because you are allowed to get as dressed up as you wanna be. Which means YES I wore a feather boa AND brought two more for my friends. And we were HARDLY the only ones wearing boas. I was wearing the outfit I wore to my birthday party (it was that or the bridesmaid dress, which I was afraid of spilling on) and I ended up totally coveting this other chick's little sequinned minidress. It was just like a long tank top, and not tight at all, but SPANGLY ALL OVER. Next time, I told Phillip, next time I will wear THAT.

6. In preparation for our Hot! Date! I stepped into a Forever 21 for the first time in my LIFE. I have always passed this store without a second glance because 1) OMG what IS that stuff in there and 2) I am not fifteen. But these StyleLush writers keep finding things in Forever 21 and I thought to myself, "Hey Self. Perhaps you are not the Granny you make yourself out to be." So I went in and proceeded, I swear, to spend an hour combing through their little accessories table. HOW DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THE ACCESSORIES TABLE? I ended up talking myself out of buying anything, but at one point I had a giant fake diamond ring, a feather headband and a glittery clutch in my hands. Sigh. 

7. The one sad thing is that I am pretty sure I have gained seven hundred pounds in the last several weeks (between Hot! Dates! and NaNoWriMo my butt is getting rather sedentary, and also Coping With Chocolate) so because 1) it is not raining and 2) I have no children not eating their breakfast I think I should probably get out. Bother.

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Comments

[Jess]

I love that, that the married couple is so in love and you could actually FEEL IT without knowing it. That is beautiful.

[Marisol]

Ok, I'm a dork too because I read about Teatro Zinzanni (about a month ago??) in my monthly Costco mag. I was so intrigued that I'm hoping I can attend one of the shows when I return to Seattle for a visit early next year.

[Sarah in Ottawa]

We walked by the San Francisco stage when we were there in October and wondered what it was. There's no way we could have fit in a show while we were there (or in Seattle) but it sounds awesome. I wish that there was one closer to us!

I've heard that the cast of most Cirque du Soleil shows pairs up fairly quickly, so I am not surprised to hear the same thing in the company. It's cool that you could spot it, though...and babies are always adorable.

I'm glad that you had fun on date night!

[HereWeGoAJen]

Awwwwwww! I am just as squishy here too. (Over the nice couple and baby, of course.)

[Christina]

You are much braver than I - I am totally freaked by those interact-with-the-audience dinner theater things. Totally. (And Husband? Would be 100x more freaked)

I read your twitter update - WHOO HOO for hitting 50 Thou! You rock!!!