Wednesday Nights

So  a group of us from the musical have started going to Cheeseburger in Paradise for karaoke on Wednesday nights. We attempted to go to Show-Me's on a Thursday once and I was kind of scandalized. Seriously! Those girls were dressing like their daddies didn't love them!

It shouldn't surprise you that I absolutely love karaoke! I get to sing my country songs to a crowd that is both surprised and excited that a black girl with a fro would sing Redneck Woman  or Sin Wagon  with abandon.

Prue has made it her mission to find me a cowboy. I am so glad that she gets me.

When we tried it out, it was because there were some underage people in the show that wanted to hang out with us and we didn't have many expectations, but we ended up having a blast.

A seriously awesome time.

I think we might have had a hand in starting the party as I was showing my dance moves from clubbing days gone by and the KJ was definitely impressed...though others were not.

There was an incredibly orange girl and a girl wearing a pink sweatshirt that was pissed. At first we thought that maybe the KJ was Pink Sweatshirt's boyfriend, but then we realized that maybe her and her friends were used to being the stars of the karaoke show that we totally crashed...but in an awesome way.

After a night of being awesome, we decided to enter the group karaoke contest (First-and only-prize was a $25 gift card!). Pink Sweatshirt sang with her friends and well as two other groups, then we got up and sang the finale song from our musical (CeeCee had the karaoke CD in her car!) and included the choreography! The place was going wild which was a surprise because we really thought that based on the reception form Pink Sweatshirt, everyone would hate us!

We knew we had it in the bag, but we still had to wait for everyone else to perform. While the last group was performing, the KJ walked over to us, handed us the gift card and said "Good job guys, when's the show?"

Yea...we were found out, but we still felt amazing!

We went the next Wednesday night all ready to spend our gift card joking about how we would split it between all eight of us when the KJ announced another contest that had nothing to do with music: This time we had to play a game where we guessed the TV show based on pictures.

Those poor contestants, not knowing Lainie Mac is a couch potato.

We won by a landslide and the KJ kept the contest going as a courtesy and made us sit out a round so that one of the teams had a chance to win a free drink as a consolation prize.

Pink Sweatshirt and her friends were not  happy campers even though I am not sure if her friend was red with fury or because her face is so orange, but I do know they were all pissed.

We had enemies the rest of the night, but because I am a grown ass woman and so are my friends, we just had to laugh at her rude looks and comments.

We played the game.

We won the game.

We enjoyed $50 worth of food.

She will just have to get over it.

She has enlisted her friends in hating us and it has gotten pretty annoying. Karaoke is about enjoying yourself and not taking yourself to seriously.

So now every Wednesday night we prepare ourselves for the snark that is to come when one of us takes that stage and we are entertained by their looks of distaste.

Mostly because we don't get it.

We are nice people. We pay our taxes and most important, we just want to have a good time.

So now we have become the regulars to the point where the KJ put me in the rotation before I even showed up last week so the moment I chose a song, I was all set to go.

I love that! I don't think he realizes how much it means for me to have a place somewhere and be a regular somewhere other than daily mass. (Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love getting my Jesus on everyday!)

I love being a part of a karaoke community and I don't care how dorky that sounds! Years ago, when I was a preschool teacher, a bunch of us would go out on Thursday nights and do karaoke at a local bar and just have fun. We all liked each other, we had regulars and people that just popped in and some people sang the same song every week and we loved it.

This is just more of me getting back to my normal...only better (don't tell the Hautian gods, I don't want them to think they've won).

Wednesday nights have become my favorite night of the week I look forward to seeing my girlfriends (and Marcus and Gil) and even the Pink Sweatshirt Posse, because it would just be weird if they weren't there. They aren't all that bad, Prue has a friend that hangs out with them and he's cool. Oh! They also have the most adorable little gay and  I am going to steal him away the very first chance I get. I don't think it will be so hard because he is totally into me.

And why not? I am Black Cher.

Well,  tonight we are celebrating Halloween at our favorite spot and there is another contest. A costume contest. The girls and I are excited and even though we would love to win, we are just going to have fun.

Besides, I won the contest last week and I am pretty sure I may get cut if I win another.