Out Past Curfew

My friends and family like to make fun of me because I go to bed early.  I always have.  I’m a morning person.

When Old School and I first met, I knew he could be “the one” because he, too, liked to call it a day, early.  Loved that about him!  We naturally followed the same schedule.  Now that we’ve been married for close to eight years it seems all of our family and friends know they shouldn’t call us past 8 or 9 o’clock at night, we’ll be passed out by then.

You can only imagine that, on occasion, Old School and I both take a little bit of ribbing about the hours we keep.  And we’re both fine with that.  We are who we are.  People who need 8 hours of sleep and who like to get up early.

These hours have been known to get in the way of our social life.  If it’s a late-starting party or event, we aren’t even invited anymore — everyone just assumes we won’t show up.

Well — last night Old School and I stayed out until 1am!!!  Woot!!! Every once in a while we’re crazy like that!!

Here’s how it happened:  Months ago Old School decided we should go to dinner with his three partners and their wives to celebrate the wonderful year we’ve all had.  Being the event planner in this couple, I called our favorite restaurant, The Precinct, to make reservations two months in advance.  We wanted their private room and it was only available at 8:15pm on the night we had chosen.  And I said yes!  Let the craziness begin!!

When was the last time I had dinner at 8:15pm?  Can’t remember.

Anyway, we all met for drinks at 7:45 and were seated in the beautiful private room by 8:10pm.  It didn’t take long for one of Old School’s partners to ask why the reservations were so late when we all knew that this was his bedtime (they did not include me in the making-fun-of-funfest, guess they were all being gentlemen).  Laughing ensued.  And continued several more times throughout the evening.  Especially when Old School and I left the restaurant only to head to a friend’s party!  Check this out — we got there at 11:30pm!!  I should have been Tweeting and Facebooking the entire evening to let the world know how we were SHAKIN’ IT UP last night, but that was way too much effort.

We stayed at the party long enough for Old School to have a cigar and for us to realize we were the only sober ones there.  Here comes the crazy part — we arrived home at 12:56am!!! Even though the sidewalks are officially rolled-up in our neighborhood around 7:30pm, we were allowed back into the neighborhood after we were warned not to make this late-night carousing a regular occurence.

And, honestly, today I’ve taken two naps and plan to be asleep by 7:30.