Dec 10

Christmas Party

Tag: Friends,Fun,HolidaysPaul C. @ 11:33 pm

Saturday night was the Car-Part.com Christmas Party at the Drawbridge Inn.  We had a great time – really good food this year, Jaime drove down from Pittsburgh and Molly and Andy showed up too.  The highlight of the night was a Kareoke contest (The Car-Part Idol Show) where the winner would be awarded a $100 gift card to Best Buy!  After much nagging encouragement from the group at my table, and Emily submitting my entry for me, I was 3rd to perform my rendition of Ice Ice Baby.   My performance was highlighted by the finale – I did the worm across the floor :)  I got two 10’s and one 7 from the judges – the highest score of the night.  The finals were between myself and Patty.  The original plan for the finals had each contestant performing the other finalists song – so Patty would have had to do Ice Ice Baby and I was going to have to sing some country song (something about a County?  Can’t recall).  However, Jeff Schroder stepped up and mandated an executive order to allow the finalists to perform a song of their choosing.  Sounded like a good idea to me – because while they were cueing up the song for me to sing, I had already performed part of Patty’s song, part of a Garth Brooks song, and one other!
I closed my performance with my all time favorite song for kareoke – Just a Giggalo!  I had some dance steps (can you really call it that?) and a lot of liquid courage in my veins, but I put on a performance that would have made David Lee Roth proud!  I think my final scores for that round were a 10, 10, 8.  So,yes…I won 🙂

After the party ended at midnight, we went down to the Drawbridge’s night club, The Crossbow (which actually has a sign that says “Ft. Mitchell’s Number One Nightclub” or something like that!) and hung out with the work crew down there.  That place is a riot though – its seems to be “the place” for the 40+ crowd to play hookup with people half their age ;)  I was taking pictures of coworkers and was actually told by a bounce that we were not allowed to take them.  Guess the married guys don’t want their wives to see their pictures popup on some website.

We’ll get the photos online tomorrow.

-pc

6 Responses to “Christmas Party”

  1. Dubb says:

    I knew all tha Ice Ice Baby practice at Murray would come in handy someday…somehow…someway..and it finally did….Congrats on the Victory…(Now find a “Jump Around” contest to win!)

  2. Chris says:

    Congrats on the win! I wish someone would have recorded the performance… I’m having trouble picturing you doing the worm 🙂

  3. diana says:

    The contest was unnecessary. I could have told them you’d be #1…
    (good thing I wasn’t there to sing “Stand by your Man”…

  4. Paul C. says:

    Emily did take some little recordings on our Canon digital camera. They weren’t very long…and she stopped recording right as I was about to do the worm!
    So now with this win, my savings for the Plasma TV has increased! If anyone is wondering about Christmas gifts for me – Best Buy gift cards will put me closer to my 42″ 720p Plasma HDTV (panasonic probably!). Dont’ think I can afford the new 1080P models just yet 🙂

  5. Emily C. says:

    I do have the videos…some good ones of Paul rapping, but I won’t release them without a charitable contribution of some sort. 🙂

  6. Megan says:

    You…sang…karaoke?…And danced? Whoa, I gotta sit down for this one. ;-p

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