“Let’s do some serious Night Blogging!”
Happy Friday! Its Party Time!
Here’s a little randomness to get your weekend started off right.
A few weeks ago my sister gifted me with the strangest item – a package of “Party Rats”. This may have been the best gift I’ve ever received. To quote from the package,
What? You haven’t heard of Party Rats!
You’re kidding, right? They’re the best thing to happen to partying since the mirror ball. People of all ages are putting these colorful, plastic, rodent lights on their fingers and waving their hands in the air like they just don’t care.
Each 1 3/4-inches long rat sends out a different colored beam of light, allowing you to create your own personal light show! Also great for the latest computer craze, night blogging!
I’m all about latest crazes…so, Night Blogging? Hells to the yeah!
The Party Rats are cheap mass produced plasticky products – little flashlights shaped like rats, attached to elastic bands so that one might wear them…like flashing rat rings. And they are awesome.
Who thinks of this stuff? Who pitches the idea in a board room? Who signs over the cash to tool the factory to create this madness?
Is there a young entrepreneur out there who can claim to be the “Party Rat Millionaire”?
My 4 year old was instantly enamored of the rats, and proclaimed, “Party Rats are my favorite animal!”
(mine too, little man, mine too.)
He has since named them all: Turtle (the blue one, naturally), Hank, Frank, Ella, and Jack.
I’ve had to perform surgery on 2 of them. (The little elastic bands are held together with what else, but cheap glue. Cheap glue does not stand a chance against a 4 year old.)
One of their lights went out. I’ve convinced the 4 year old that he is “sleeping.”
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I’m not sure, but I think the mere existence of the Party Rats may be one of the signs of the end of the world, but I’ll take the Party Rats over a Mashed Potato Slurpee any day.
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My head is shaking and my jaw has dropped. WTF?
and WHAT is night blogging?!
Apparently, Ellen, it is the latest craze! Maybe we can have a night blogging party. My rats are ready to go. (4 of them, at least…)
Bahahah!!! This is beyond awesome! Your blog title had me sold even before I knew what I was buying
PARTY RATS!!! What’s not to love abut something so totally bizarre!
Definitely – my little guy had it right: “Party Rats are My FAVORITE Animal!!!” lol.
LOL! These are too much, Laird! What a way to start this Friday.
I’m totally game for that nocturnal blogging party by rat-light. Have the BEST day and weekend. (How could you not with those bad boys???)
lol…pick a date and we’ll send out invites. The party will of course be BYOPR…
So funny! I definitely have to get some of these for my nieces and nephews for Halloween! LOL
I know! I wish they sold them in bulk! I would totally hand them out for Halloween instead of candy!
My kids would love these things too, especially my 4 year old. I would have thought Oriental Trading would have these in bulk but I couldn’t find anything like them on their site
I am envisioning a giant jar of party rats…lol…that would be AWESOME!
Wonder if they could make them in custom colors…
Gotta get some of these! Thanks for the heads-up.
absolutely! I felt obligated to share the rat love with you all…
Guess what my sisters are getting for their next gifts? You got that right! Party Rats!!!
Totally Awesome. One sis is a nurse on the night shift. I KNOW she can use them at work.
Oh, the possibilities are endless! Please please please let the lights go out sometime so she can put in an IV by ratlight… lol
way cool, I can just see all my fave disco pals jumping on the party rat bandwagon. Count me in on the night blogging… but do to the time zone change it might be afternoon blogging. But it’s all good. Fun post.
Its all good – you can rock the rats “big island” style…
Party Rats are MY favorite animal now. Way, way cool. And even though I am not sure what night blogging is, I feel I must be a part of it. Put me down for a Party Rat Night Blogging (henceforth known as PRNB) invitation. I’m so there.
Yay! We should make a Night Blogging Mix Tape. And bedazzle some shirts.
Party Rats, Night Blogging, and Mad Whack Dance Boots! It doesn’t get much better than that!
indeed, Elaine…indeed.
I think if Jetro’s brother had been wearing some party rats, he wouldn’t have died in that dance battle.
I’m all in for night blogging! Just let me know when the next party is. But I’m not sure about the rats.
These are great! Thanks for the intro to the Party Rats.
You are most welcome. Thank YOU for introducing me to the gross but fascinating concept of the mashed potato slurpee.
GAAH! My pal, Pay, and I MUST have these. I think he’s toodled off to order them.
Mwah, Laird! I WANA have 112 of them.
Yeah, I know. Lamb. But, it’s early and I’m half caffeinated.
I wonder if those could be modified to shoot deadly laser beams. Then you could put them on with a cape and fight crime or something.