Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Come Wearing Your Ugliest Chistmas Sweater... Party Starts at 9pm... Ends Never!!!

Before I begin I must give credit to "Stuff White People Like.com" for their latest addition profiling ugly Christmas sweater parties and their attendees. No, I have not read this month's newest Caucasian interest, but judging by the title I feel the same. That was my credit.
Now my question: Has anyone been invited to one of the these unoriginal gatherings. Not that I am anti theme parties, but really? Can we find a different idea?
The other day I was at work and a friend of mine asked, "Hey are you gonna hit up the Christmas sweater party at Chevy's on Monday?"
I replied, "No, I have plans."
I really did. I play Softball on Monday nights and am slowly becoming a legend. Aside from that.
He was acting like it was some freshly hip idea. Later that day his girlfriend asked why I wasn't going. I said, "You know they had an ugly Christmas sweater party on Drake and Josh right?"
She seemed unfazed by this. Didn't surprise me, the girls a one upper. On some level she was probably mad that she didn't already know that.
Earlier in the week I saw a preview for the Drake and Josh Christmas Movie on Disney, okay I watched the fucker, but only because I was forced to by a child, and at the end they all attended an ugly Christmas sweater party. To put it simple, if its on the Disney channel its not cool for twenty somethings to do. That is just a fact.
Last night I was waiting on a table and they were discussing where on Earth, just where on Earth they were going to buy some fly, yet ugly Christmas sweaters. Angry level now at orange...I wanted to be my normal, sarcastic self and make them feel lame for copying a Drake and Josh Christmas special, but this was pre-tip.
This morning I received a text that there will be, you guessed it, another ugly Christmas sweater gathering at some wily, charismatic dumb asses house. Head then exploded. Actually phone went flying followed by loud expletives.
The best element behind a good theme party is originality, creativity and the direction to which people take the title. Think outside the box. When attendees of ugly Christmas sweater parties actually start hosting their own ugly Christmas sweater parties in the same holiday season we have a major issue.
A couple of years ago when I first heard of these ugly sweater functions I thought to myself, not bad. What a cool idea, kinda cheesy, the retro thing is in and know one can deny the cozy level of a holiday sweater. Now they are stockings and mistletoe. Is this now going to be a seasonal event?
Its the same people who wear the fictional event shirts, "Sammy's Board Shop, two for one sale." Or the ones who only step foot in a second hand store once a year to exploit its patrons. "Oh my God, this one is so ugly, its perfect.."
"Does this one make me look fat?"
"Yeah!"
"Okay good."
Meanwhile Hector has been wearing that same getup since the first wind picked up in September and on Christmas he's planning on spicing it up but putting a collard shirt under it.
I'm getting ahead of myself. Lets just make a rule starting next year. If you get invited to an ugly Sweater party, the celebration ends at that parties conclusion. It will be a one time event and that is it. Also, there will be absolutely no ugly sweater events on New Years eve, period.

3 comments:

Sharon Kieffer Steele said...

**Doing the Happy Dance**
Woo Hoo! This is funny stuff, pumpkin-head!
ps. "collard" is spelled "collared." Only because that stuff drives me cuckoo!

Sharon Kieffer Steele said...

DUDE!! I AM GOING TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM YOUR FREAKIN' BLOG IF YOU DON'T START POSTING!!! You have already broken your New Year's Resolution??! Get working!

PS. Don't worry about breaking your resolution, mine was to stop eating, and a New Year's Day phone call to the local Chinoiserie brought that to it's knees. Just please write the story about Earl & Eddie Money. Please. This is me begging!!

Pedge said...

Just in case another follower may be the inspiration you needed, I popped over here from SKS blog and you are cracking me up. Keep it coming. A mother of five from Indiana, just the audience you were hoping for right!