Okay FYA readers, we’re having a virtual slumber party! I know! So grab your favorite cocktails, put on your jimjams and get ready for some swooning, book reading, pranks and partaking of tasty business!
To make your packing easy, we came up with a list of fill-in-the-blank slumber party essentials! You can see what (and who) we’re each bringing after the break!
Okay, so what’s more important than picking out your fave jimjams and being sure to pack a poster of your current ‘dream’ movie star boyfriend? Well, here at FYA, we, of course, say cocktails! Some of the other all-important slumber party accoutrements? Favorite authors! Favorite fictional characters to introduce to the rest of the girls! Your fantasy pick for YA novel-turned movie! And did I mention cocktails?
IN POSH’S SUITCASE:
Jimjams: my cupcake ones!!! esp. cos the brand is actually named “nick & norah” so wearing them is like, YA product placement.
Fave food: i mad dogged this category for about five minutes because asking someone to limit their tasty business to ONE THING is just totally mean. with that said, within the slumber party genre, my favorite food is chocolate chip cookie cake (from the great american cookie store in the mall, OBVS). and a bag of fritos to cut down on the sweetness. and while you’re at the mall, mom, go ahead and grab us some cinnabons for the morning! because lord knows we’ll need more sugar to replenish all of the calories we squeed out.
Adult bev: champers, champers, champers. preferably in the form of a sofia champ can for easy (lazy) consumption.
Book: the jessica darling series because it will undoubtedly provide two v. necessary ingredients for slumber parties: uproarious laughter and major swoonage.
YA author: DANG this is hard. i mean, can’t we just be nice and invite everyone?!! except the mean YA authors, of course. whoever they might be (do they exist?). ok, well, if i can only bring one lady, i’d have to go with maureen johnson cos she seems so hilarious and awesome on her twitter. plus she’s bffs with john green so we could crank call him!
YA fantasy movie adaptation: JELLICOE ROAD, y’all. jellicoe freaking road. and it better feature taylor kitsch or I WILL CUT SOMEONE (erin’s choice is a close second).
YA bff to introduce to everybody else: ruby oliver!!! you guys maybe she’d let us have the sleepover on her houseboat!! for other examples of her amazingess, see my list here.
Poster of your YA self’s movie star boyfriend: this is the easiest question ever. KEANU REEVES. and if y’all are lucky, i’ll bring the (in?)famous keanu VHS tape and its companion box of keanu clippings.
Fave beauty product to share: my massive collection of benefit make-up. oh and hard candy nail polish, obvs!
Prank/game: y’all we have GOT to TP somebody’s house. like maybe… PRESIDENT SNOW?
IN MEGHAN’S SUITCASE:
Jimjams: my fav. frankie and johnny men’s-style jimjams with books all over them (they shrunk in the wash, so they’re too short in the arms and legs, but WHO CARES i love them)
Fave food: croissants! and marshmallow popcorn – y’all, srsly the BEST INVENTION EVER. melt marshmallows and butter, then stir it into popcorn. YUM.
Adult bev: gin martinis, v. dry.
Book: oh, man, this is really hard. um, graceling or sweethearts or princess diaries or great and terrible beauty.
YA author: MEG CABOT. duh. she’d totally be the MOST FUN EVER at a slumber party.
YA movie adaptation: clueless! ok, it’s an adaptation of emma, but it has teenagers and I LOVE IT.
YA bff to introduce to everybody else: everyone else will bring katniss, so i’ll bring someone new — suze from the mediator series (meg cabot). she can talk to ghosts! AND can kick major ass. y’all, she’s really awesome and i can’t wait to introduce her to everyone
Poster of your YA self’s movie star boyfriend: if i were 12, it was totally mike vitar (the guy in the sandlot). high school? robert sean leonard (nerd alert — he was SO HOT as neil in dead poets’ society, plus we could watch much ado about nothing and sarah could swoon over keanu and i could swoon over rsl)
Fave beauty product to share: ok, so i really suck at this part. i was always the one people wanted to make over at slumber parties. but probably something that smells yummy, like cupcake-scented lotion. hopefully someone brings cupcakes as a snack, though, cos that stuff always makes me want cupcakes.
Prank/game: crank calling cute boys! like peeta and christopher (from the airhead series
IN ERIN’S SUITCASE:
Jimjams: my current jimjams that have bunnies having a tea party. Because I don’t wear jimjams for anything other than overnights with family or slumber parties, i usually only have one pair at a time. And my boyfriend spilled tea on my last pair.
Fave food: fondue! can i bring fondue to a slumber party? I guess i can if it’s a slumber party from the 80s!
Adult bev: whiskey presbyterian
Book: I will say the All-American Girl series from Meg Cabot. They don’t get alot of love (I need to write about them) but they’re totally fun AND feature secksin. AT CAMP DAVID.
YA author: MEG CABOT. obvs.
YA movie adaptation: Frankie Banks! Frankie Banks! Why isn’t this a movie yet already! I am most whelmed by this idea.
YA bff to introduce to everybody else: Gemma Doyle, obviously. I bet she would KICK ASS at light as a feather.
Poster of your YA self’s movie star boyfriend: Devon Sawa. Don’t judge me!
Fave beauty product to share: Lush’s cupcake face mask. And also Butterballs and Honey Bee bath bombs for everyone.
Prank/Game: the Oiuja board!
IN JENNY’S SUITCASE:
Jimjams: My wasabi green yummy sushi pajamas (which, yes, I ordered online– back when we had dial-up!– after watching the Buffy ep. where she is wearing a yummy sushi nightgown!)
Fave food: Okay, so I can’t pick just one, okay? Because we need Doritos and Sour Patch Kids, but sometimes those things will give you a tummy ache, so we need something real, and my go-to real food is mac n’ cheese! And then after the mac n’ cheese, we’ll need cupcakes! And at midnight, it will be time to order pizza…
Adult bev: Jameson, straight up, twist of lemon
Book: Well, since nobody else chose it, I get to say THE HUNGER GAMES!!!!
YA author: I have to go with Claudia Gray. I love her Evernight series, and get this: she tweeted earlier this week about one of her upcoming projects: A book about The Titanic- wait for it- with WEREWOLVES!!! This might cause some of you to squee, and others to raise an eyebrow, but I have total faith in Ms. Gray’s writing chops to make it the most awesome Titanic story ever.
YA fantasy movie adaptation: Okay, so this one’s so easy. And the best part? It’s not fantasy. The Outsiders! ‘swoon’
YA bff to introduce to everybody else: Again, everybody else avoided the obvious choice, leaving me with none other than: Katniss. Y’all, let’s show her what real girlfriends are like. Maybe we can help her over her little love triangle hump once and for all.
Poster of your YA self’s movie star boyfriend: Okay, so I originally was going to pack my poster of Ralph Macchio, circa ‘Karate Kid’, but I realized I had COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN MY LOVE AFFAIR (erm, obsession) that spanned FIVE WHOLE YEARS! How did I forget this? (You may ask) I’ll blame on early old-ladyitis. River Phoenix, y’all. He was the central figure in every story I wrote, and every pubescent dream I had from the time I was 12 until at least 17.
Fave beauty product to share: EO’s lavender and sea salt foot soak, with OPI’s Romeo and Juliet for pedicures!
Prank/Game: So the best prank I ever witnessed was at a youth retreat, when all the boys put saran wrap over the girl’s toilets, but I don’t think I’m mean enough to do that to y’all, so I’m going to go with a notebook and pen for MASH!
Alright readers, now it’s your turn! Tell us what you’d bring to this, the BEST SLUMBER PARTY EVER!!!
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OMG OMG OMG!! BEST SLUMBER PARTY EVER!!!
the only problem with virtual parties is that it also means the friendship and cocktails and tasty business are virtual. and i am at least 3 hours away from making the friendship less virtual (hi erin!) and a dreaded 6 AND A HALF hours away from making the cocktail less virtual. GAH.
um meghan that marshmallow popcorn sounds DEEE-VINE.
Best slumber party EVER! Don’t know what else to say, just hope I’m invited. And saran-wrapping toilets? Possibly the worst/funniest prank ever. *writes this down* >:]
Give me back RSL as Neil in Dead Poet’s Society! He’s mine!
OOOH I REALLY WANT TO GO TO THIS SLUMBER PARTY! Especially because I fairly often have real slumber parties with both Sarah AND Erin, so I can vouch for their insanely awesome slumber party potential. (you’re jealous, aren’t you? I can tell that you are.)
Meghan, I was in loooooove with Benny from The Sandlot. And then he was in the Mighty Ducks sequels and I was so happy to see him again! And then he disappeared forever.
Jenny, I HAVE THOSE SAME WASABI SUSHI PJs!
If I were to attend the virtual slumber party…
jim-jams: I would normally say my sushi PJs, but since Jenny and I would be twinkies and that would look silly, I’ll go with my bright orange aliens and UFOs jammies.
fave food: this isn’t my fave food, obviously, but for a slumber party, I LOVE NACHOS.
adult bev: I’ll bring the St. Germain and lavendar soda to mix with Sarah’s champers!
book: King Dork, so we can all get a glimpse at the inside of a boy’s mind and gossip about how much they think about sex.
YA Author: JK Rowling!!!
YA movie adaptation: MUST AGREE WITH CLUELESS, MEGHAN. Oh man, I have seen this movie 100 billion times.
YA BFF to introduce: Raffy from Jellicoe Road! She is totally the best BFF ever. Other than my real two BFFs with whom I have the aforementioned slumber parties.
Poster of my YA’s self movie star boyfriend: Well, Erin’s already bringing Devon Sawa (I am SO not judging you, girl), and I did have a HUGE crush on Seth Green back when he was in those camera commericals and then did the Austin Powers movies. And that crush has only grown thanks to Buffy and Robot Chicken.
Fave beauty product to share: I just got the world’s hugest collection of eyeshadows and lip glosses from Sephora, and that would make for some serious slumber party fun!
Prank/game: Apples to Apples!
YES!!! I can’t believe someone else shares my crush on Robert Sean Leonard since the 90s! I was in NYC during the 1992 Tony Awards and we were all lined up and cheering for Martin Short, Bernadette Peters, and so on. RSL walks up and no one is cheering for him, and when I see him I scream “Robert Sean Leonard I LOVE YOU!!” He looks around in shock that someone knows him, doesn’t see me which ruined all my fantasies, and went inside. True story. Robert, call me, that was me.
OMG bianca i’m SO JEALOUS! who DOESN’T love RSL, i mean, really?
you have no idea how much i wish this slumber party was real. and not just because of all the tasty business! i mean, sure, that’s a big part of it, but the cumulative awesomeness is overwhelming!
um, how can there be all of this robert lean leonard talk without ANY mention of the greatest dance movie of the 90s, MOTHERCUSSING SWING KIDS?!!!!!!
plus it’s a double whammy of hotness, cos we get to enjoy christian bale as well.
p.s. OMG YOU GUYS THE OUIJA BOARD JUST TOLD ME THAT KATNISS AND PEETA ARE GONNA END UP TOGETHER.
Yeah, but only cause I was “spiritually guiding” that triangle thing. I also used to spiritually guide the triangle to spell out the name of my future husband as Neil Patrick Harris and I’m sorry, but I think SOMEONE in ouija-land got that one wrong!!
P.S. I like how drunk that dark-haired girl looks in the header. “You guyz. You GUYZ. Let me tell you . . . you guyz are all so beautiful. No, listen! I’m being really serious okay?”
that’s why the picture is so APPROPRIATE, erin. i mean, as appropriate as child inebriation can be.
seriously, guys, one day WE WILL MAKE THIS HAPPEN. it can be like our own FYA convention. but with way less speakers and much more junk food.
I’d say I was planning to sneak over with a boom box and most of a stolen six pack, but let’s be realistic…I’d be over in my friend’s basement with a map of Europe spread out over the ping pong table, arguing about armor class and quoting Monty Python.
I would totally crash Brian’s party after everyone fell asleep.
OMG! Devon Sawa! Nice pull Erin.
I was so jealous of Christina Ricci, first she got to float/dance with him in Casper and then saw him skinny dipping in Now and Then. And he kissed her in both movies!
Oh Ricci…she was one lucky girl.
yes, but did christina ricci get a question about devon sawa published in parade magazine? I DON’T THINK SO!
http://poshdeluxe.com/2010/03/09/how-devon-sawa-helped-me-become-a-published-writer/
Wow…Parade magazine. That’s pretty much celebrity status in my eyes.
You’re the lucky girl.
Ummm any Slumber party with Katniss OR Ruby Oliver OR Meg Cabot would be AMAZING. But all three, I don’t think I could even handle the awesomeness of that party!