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Getting dressed up for a country and western barn dance could really go a number of ways.  A girl could go ‘sexy’ country, she could go ‘girlie’ country, she could take it to that manly country place, or she could go the strange Golden Bay quirky version of country – guess which way I went tonight?

So it was that I turned up at the big do with a plastic gazelle strapped to my oil skin hat.  Some how the gazelle rendered me ready for anything, for any conversation, for any fancy line dance move, for any weird pinafores that I was required to put on in the name of an ‘ice-breaking exercise’.

I’d been instructed to be a ‘greeter’ at the door and it was with great gusto that I wrote people’s name tags out and told them where to put their towering plates of food.  There’s nothing better than having a job at the beginning of a party – gives you somewhere to direct all that excitement. For tonight I was child free and I had time to burn.

So I met up with old friends and made new ones.  We discussed the usual subjects: love, weight, star-signs, how to use walkie talkies, whether the braces you used to hold up trousers were back in fashion, the definition of ‘computer geek’, food.  Elderly men walked around wearing togs over their clothes (thanks to the icebreaker game) and one man with long hairy legs also wore a pretty pinafore all night, keeping it on due to the admiration he received, continuously.

I sang my one and only country and western song about hairy armpits, being naked at the beach and mulching our gardens with red seaweed to a loyal and cheering crowd.  They obediently foot stomped when I asked them too, and some voluntarily screamed (always good).

I left with the desperate urge to get out of my tight barn-dance attire (my brown skirt must have shrunk in the wash at some point between child-birth and now) and a fond farewell to a roomful of friends.  There’s nothing like the combination of people and silliness to relax a girl.

Today’s rating: 9/10

365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation (as I raise my gorgeous son and grow my good news website to a subscription base of 100,000 people).  The Low Down on this Blog.

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