I matched the curtains.

Madonna. Michael Jackson. Debbie Gibson.

I found myself painting the kitchen in Jessica's new house chocolate brown.

Jessica was a college roommate at the University of Missouri during my senior year and moved to Denver shortly after I left. She just bought a house, and tonight, I went over to see it. She invited me to a party - an '80s Prom Party. She had a fabulous blue dress complete with the top covered in sequence and a ol' bow on the backside.

Seeing as I only found out about it at the last minute, I was content going in "normal" clothes. She said that'd be fine and we headed out for the night.

But upon arriving, I was told "that one pink dress" that no one else was wearing was still available, was shuffled into a back room and was handed a dress that was at least two sizes too big and large, plastic earrings with instructions to put my hair in a side pony tail. The icing on the cake was the blue ribbon.