Oh I Have Spirit!

Saturday February 21st was the date of the Independent Spirit Awards.  The Independent Film Channel was the host and held a swanky after party.  I didn't get to attend the awards but did get an invite to the after party with my coworker Tori.

Some of you may recall that my last awards show party called for an odd dress code.  I didn't get any indication on how to dress but I put myself in an independent free spirited mind set to decide.  I may have gone through a few outfits varying in their levels of independence and spirituality but decided on something quite comfortable.  Black off the shoulder sweater, jeans and black heals.  I know it was a boring option but it was cold that day (excuses excuses) and I was getting over my bastardly disease (more excuses!!).  So please note that I was in heels for the evening - not super tall heels - but definitely a good 3 inches.

We walked down to Shutters for the party (it's blocks from my house)

and walked right in.  There were lots of people, short people.  I was one of the 5 tallest people in the room, men included.  The entertainment people are on average not very tall.  So we found the bar - liquor kills germs - and grabbed a drink.  By this point we noticed the awesome DJ whose name - DJ Mom Jeans.  Freaking awesome right?  We mingled and ran across a few familiar faces (you would not believe how long it took me to figure out these people's names!)

guy from dirty sexy money

chef lady

this one was only as tall as the cocktail tables - not kidding

I can't recall any of the other familiar faces as they make their drinks very strong at these parties. We did end up running into a work colleague who was holding an award. Yeah we were confused too. Turns out her husband won the award (if anyone watched he was the guy who swore a lot - dropped a bunch of f* bombs - I did not see it) but at that point we felt it was the appropriate time to take photos with it. This is Tori with her spirit award

(iPhone picture caused the weird coloring)

Then we realized we should all take a photo with the award


Comments on this photo: Tori sent it and said she looked preggers - which she doesn't. I looked at it and thought wow were you skiing or something?? (Cath can we go get new concealer for red faced here?). I just looked at this blown up and now my arms look HUGE. Stopping now.

So we were getting ready to leave and were talking to someone about the awesome DJ and their freaking awesome name - Mom Jeans. Turns out it's Danny Masterson from That 70's Show. Never looked past the sign that said Mom Jeans to who the DJ was.