#pantstootight

The infamous “Date night” happened. I got dolled up with big girl makeup, and I even put on perfume!! [God does that sound sad coming from a former MUA] BatDad popped my Uber cherry, which was actually a lot less scary than I thought it was going to be. It helped that BatDad kept me engaged in conversation while we were in the car. [I’ve learned, I’m not a very good passenger.] We showed our support w/drinks and catching up on our lives as much as possible to the single peeps w/o kids. I learned along time ago that most of the parental talk just gets a bobblehead smile and nod, and a “Oh, that’s awesome!” I just simply have to reign it in.

When we weren’t trying to adult, we were observing and discussing...and we realized, this just isn’t our scene anymore. To our surprise, we were totally OK with it. How exhausting it looked to pretend to be that interested, and for a lack of a better word, “showy” to impress others. How much care I knew went into trying to look like you #justwokeuplikethis kinda style...the thought made me tired. To clarify I LOVE getting dolled/dressed up and going out cause it makes ME feel good, I could care less whether anyone else likes it or not. I suppose if I was single and no lil people’s butts to wipe or reminding them for the eleven-millionth time to put ON deodorant maybe I would have the energy to make myself more presentable on a regular basis.

 After we were done observing we decided it was time to come full-circle sort of speak. We took another ride to the bar where we had our 1st date.[Besides, the bartender couldn’t make me a decent drink and I wasn’t going to throw money away like that. BatDad was a server/bartender for too long in his work career, so while I’m a little spoiled in getting damn good drinks, it’s a little redic that I couldn’t get a decent one on a Friday night in L.A.] We walked into “Our” bar and I finally got a good drink. We checked out the remodeled patio, that was a let down. So we decided we would have a seat and have some food just like we did almost 4yrs ago. We had an AMAZING waitress who chatted with us through our stay. While I think we still could have made our night a little longer we headed home to relief Maja. The thing we forgot..Birdie doesn’t care that we went out and promptly woke up at 7am ready to start her day like any other. I think BatDad was “luckier” on the drink front cause he was feeling it and NOT ready to start his day with Birdie. I let him sleep for a while since he was mixing drinks and I wasn’t. However, I did spend the rest of the weekend exhausted. All in all I’ll say it was a success!