Hit or Miss

The concept of Color Club is somewhat difficult to explain, in light of the fact that one sounds really dorky while explaining it. Color Club is a group of people who get together to do fun things- bowling, laser show, karaoke, etc.- while all wearing the same color. It all started on Tornado night. JTrav, Lee, Berly, and I were going to dinner and a movie and we all decided to wear basically the same outfit. It was a light blue shirt, denim bottoms, and a navy blue jacket, in case you were wondering. Erica came along too, acting as our Color Club bodyguard. We sat together in a Chinese Restaurant laughing about how silly we looked all dressed alike. We talked about forming a club devoted to color and we listed off about a million fun things that we could do as a club, all the movies we could watch and all the events we could go to dressed in one unifying color. We hadn't really had so much fun in a group since high school. Then we went to the movie and when we came out we realized a tornado had torn through our city, knocking down trees and windows and tearing roofs off of houses. We walked around through the torn up neighborhoods and it was so eerie, everything ripped apart like that. I don't know if the tornado is what makes us remember the night, or if it was the silliness of the invention of a club when most of us are in our mid to late twenties. In any case we've continued doing things together, wearing a new color each time and bringing new people to each event.

Last night was Orange night and we did karaoke. I was having a crappy day, and kind of didn't feel like singing, which almost never happens in my day to day existence. I mean the not singing part, I'm kind of like a broken record. But then I got there, and there was so much orange and everybody just kept singing along to everyone else's songs. It was magical. I think my favorite performances of the night were when Mary Beth and Erica sang Cryin' by Aerosmith, because Aerosmith is one Mary Beth's all time favorite bands and you could absolutely tell. As well, I was amazed by Lee and Stephanie's rendition of New Found Glory's Hit or Miss, because it was incredibly enthusiastic and it made me feel like I was nineteen and driving around to shows all over South Florida. I think I might be three years old because bright colors and singing make me really happy.