*Double Take...*

Ha, just to outdo Ari here, for I am not a loser!! (Ok, I am, but that's not the point :P) I shall post for a third time to SPAM YOU ALL!!

I have an announcement of excitingness for you all.

I am going to... a formal!!!

Ok, so perhaps not as exciting as I made it out to be. But by golly, it is!!

Although, there are a few flaws in the whole "OMG THE FORMAL IS SO AWESOME!" thing.

Allow me to list them.

1. The Date. This is the person you take to the formal, which makes or breaks people's opinion of you until the next formal (at least - many will remember for LIFE). And so, to avoid this, I thought, 'How about I go by myself and just dance like a crazy person with my friends?'

Uh, no. Sorry, doesn't work like that - that's the same as going alone, which makes you strange.

So, if you have no option for a date and you don't want to go "alone", here is my advice to you.
Take a guy friend!! "No," I hear you wail, "I have no guy friends!!". Yes you do, you just may not have met them yet! Ask your friends, for they will have guy friends, and meet them a week or so beforehand. And all is peachy!

2. The Dress. This is the most glaringly obvious point, and yet is so overlooked! I got my dress 2 weeks before the formal, which gave most of my friends heart palpitations because they thought I'd never get it in time. However, I got it (relatively cheaply compared to other formal dresses, but FREAKISHLY EXPENSIVE according to my monitary capabilities...) and I like it. So there. Which brings me to my next issue...

3. The Shoes. I own 4 pairs of shoes - school shoes, trainers for PE and hockey, an old pair of sandals and a pair of boots. So, you can imagine my surprise when my friends said, "Great dress.. what shoes?" I died inside. So, we went shopping. I found shoes. I tried them on. They were pretty.
AND I COULDN'T WALK IN THEM!
Not to mention that they were even more expensive than my dress.

Something tells me I may end up wearing the threadbare sandals - at least I'll be able to walk by the end of the night!

4. The Look. This is a combination of hair and makeup. Now, here's the problem. My hair is a block of the most boring colour and the most boring length, and subsequently there is approximately NOTHING that can be done with it. Damn.
Makeup - I own none. The only makeup I've ever worn is stage makeup, which you couldn't wear anywhere where people are going to be standing anywhere near you because then you look like you could peel your face off at any second like a Slitheen or something. So, I'll have to entrust my baby-faced complexion to the hands of my make-up wise friends... I'll let you know how it goes if I come out alive...

5. The Cost. Ok, let's add up the expenditure:

- Your ticket: $50
- Date's ticket: $50
- The dress: $60
- The shoes: ??? (the ones I looked at were $90, so let's add that into the overall cost)
- The hairstyle: (salon cost) Up to $50/$60
- The makeup: Cost my friend nearly $160

All up: $470

Nearly $500 for a night out. Worth it?

I'll let you know... it's on Saturday :P

Bye for now!
~Pia