Dancin' Shoes

Confession: I don't have any of those embarassing prom pictures. Why? Because I didn't go to prom.
Each year at this time, I think about prom a lot. Obviously, because it's EVERYWHERE. I always start by thinking "oh, how fun" with all those beautiful dresses and gorgeous shoes and hair appointments, and this slowly morphs into a very, very minute depression over the whole thing. I don't know if it's really prom that makes me sad or the whole high school flashback. I didn't enjoy high school. Oh, there were moments, mind you. But overrall... no, thank you. I think the only time I was ever really involved in high school like a normal kid was during sport seasons. The rest of the time I was just sort of floating over the whole scene, watching was happening around me. Because of this, I wasn't super popular or outgoing... thinks that help you get asked to prom. I came VERY close my senior year asking a freshman to go with me. But I couldn't muster the strength to ask, and certainly couldn't have handled being shot down. (One of my good friends now actually dated the guy in high school, and I'm quite certain I would have been shot down. Close call.)
So, now what? Are all these adult black tie events the extension of proms in adulthood? Is that why they're so popular? Or do the people that went to a lot of dances actually hate these because they've been to so many of them? Or they love them because they get to re-live the glory days? I don't know. In college, I once talked my boyfriend into doing something a normal couple would do, and we were supposed to go to the college Tolo. He told me two days before that he couldn't go. I still have the dress. It still has the tags on it. I'm currently too fat for it, but here's the plan: I won't be for long. My intention is to fit into that dress, go have my hair done and make my husband take me out. I might even have my picture taken in front of a balloon arch. I'll be sure to post the picture.