Charlie Sheen and the Polar Plunge

I know this is coming out late so sorry but a girl's been busy ya know! Let's talk about Charlie Sheen. Lately he is all over the news for his off the wall comments and trendsetting sayings. I personally find it amusing and know that this day was going to come sooner or later. He went on drinking binges, drug binges, loves his hookers, I mean really we all couldn't see this coming? Anyway the thing that my co-workers and I have in common with Charlie is the Polar Plunge. Had Charlie Sheen done the Chicago Polar Plunge he would have been in our group and would have given us props on our stellar drinking and plunging skills.

Let's start with Saturday night. Lush, Dragonmaster and myself stayed at Dragonmaster's house but we first worked, well Lush and I did anyway. We took a couple shots through out the night and watched our partner black herself out (no surprise there!) and went back to her house. Once we arrived there she promptly fell asleep in her clothes on her floor next to a plugged in hair dryer. We sober ones situation ourselves on the couch telling her to go to her bed where she refused. I have played this game many a time so I knew better than to tell her to get in her bed. Lush offered for Dragonmaster to go on the futon with her where she replied, I don't like sleeping with friends, it freaks me out. So she then really passed out leaving us laughing and taking pictures of the poor girl without her knowing (she found out later, we are not that creepy.)

Fast forward 3 hours and a short nap later. We wake up where Dougie Guru comes over and start pounding beers. Our thought process was why jump into an ice cold lake sober? We head to our home base bar and meet up with the rest of the plungers. We are probably the ones who drank the most and continue to pour liquor into our bodies. As we board the bus we have a bottle of captain, some beer, and who knows what else. We are psyched to get to Lake Michigan now. We all take pulls of the bottles and I almost throw up, lucky LB helps me through by talking me down, a gift she learned from helping her sister, Mrs. Southside. We arrive at the Lake and clamber out of the bus to go register, well most of the team does.

The tent is set up in a circular pattern, myself, Dragonmaster, and Ksorbs get lost from everyone. We try calling but can't figure out how to use the phone cause well we just drank a ton in a short amount of time! We walk around the circle with beers in hand, running into people, talking to volunteers and finally finding our team who just shake their heads. Dragonmaster is blacked out again. We dance around and pump ourselves up to run into the water. It's our turn and we cut in line in front of everyone and Lush, LB, and myself hold hands and take the plunge. My plunge was more of a run in, stop, look confused, splash some water, and run out. The instant your feet hit the water you can't feel them. You are soaked and cold but adrenaline plays its part and let's you power through. We walk back to our stuff and undress and redress, luckily everyone wore bathing suits underneath.

Back to the bus where Dougie Guru passes out and we take more pictures. As soon as we get back to the bar we begin drinking. DJ Snoop is bartending and looks like a tornado is about to hit him, it is a tornado, a Charlie Sheen tornado! We order food, shots, drinks, fish bowls, basically anything you can. Dancing awkwardly begins and flip cup, and climbing on the bar. Regular patrons arrive and look a bit scared, some braved our crazy, and some decided it was not worth it. Things begin to calm down and we start discussing the events. Apparently once Dragonmaster and Dougie Guru got out of the water they went to the bathroom where they laid under hand dryers and took a brief nap.

The drinking progresses and I decided my eyes needed to rest so I put my head down on the bar. Dragonmaster slapped her head against the bar and we were told we needed to go home. Who gets kicked out of their own bar?! Muffy decided it was time before we hurt ourselves. We gather our things and head home. I instantly went to sleep and so did she. I awoke to hear the bathtub running......for 45 minutes. I then hear the shower go on and decide that I am going to wait until she gets into bed to leave so that she does not drown herself. Once she is safe I start my trek back to the bar. I know how hard it is to get a cab so I begin walking looking like a homeless person, literally.

A cab driver picks me up where he asks if I am a lesbian, whatever I am too tired to answer him so I let him talk. Meanwhile back at the bar I hear Elf is dancing on the bar and extremely drunk and her boyfriend wont come and get her so she starts falling off chairs. Most everyone proceeded to black out. I receive texts from Lush where we begin talking about the fantastic food of Cafe Ba Ba Reeba and how much we want to eat. All in all we needed to stop drinking.

I am sure I am missing great stories, but so much went on that day that it is hard to remember! Had Charlie Sheen been in our plunge group he would have been proud. He probably would have had some hookers along with him but at least would have been yelling "winning" the whole time!

Side note: pictures are taken the whole time you run into and out of the water, one surfaced of us all where Dragonmaster exposed a bit too much skin but you can tell she has no idea because she is that drunk. Go look for it on the internet, it's pretty funny.

Moral of the story, we Charlie Sheen'd the Polar Plunge and next year people have a lot to live up to!!