Well,
You have learned my secret. I am a recovering party girl. More like a party girl grown up. During my early/mid twenties, I lived by the rule that you are only young once; better get it out of your system now.
Now I am older and less interested in the partying, but my old ways still come out to party occasionally.
But today I think I crossed the border from party-girl slowdown, to party-girl gone. I turned down an invitation to go to a high school friends wedding. The wedding is across the country and in a month. The invitation kind of came out of left field as we only recently reconnected and its 5 weeks away.
But it was an opportunity to meet up with all my high school friends and just spend the whole weekend partying.
I went back and forth but ultimately said I can’t go. I just have way too many cross country trips coming up in the next 6 months, plus my own wedding.
I thought "hey, it's only a $300 plane ticket then everything is free to me all weekend (my friends take good care of me). And it's a once in a lifetime event"(actually, I think divorce is in this couple's future but I doubt I would go/get invited to the next wedding.)
But considering I am not yet sure how I will pay for the events I have committed to, and my own wedding is going on a credit card for a few months...I can just see this as being a trip that tips the scales and leads me into credit card debt and way off my path to achieving all those goals listed on the left-hand side.
It's too bad, it would have been fun to have one last 'girls trip' before I got married. But I have had plenty of those.
"Party girl- put the cup down!"
August 4th, 2008 at 07:33 pm
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I saw the red sox and Yankees this weekend. Ok, the paw sox and scranton Yankees. 9,000 people and tickets cost $6 for adults, $4 for children, and free parking. My three year old son was sitting next to his three year old friend explaining who everyone was. There's big papi, beckett's pitching and Jason varitek is catching. He was also clapping when either team hit the ball. Yes even the Yankees. He got to run the bases after the game too.
I thought you might enjoy.
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Some of the best memories I have with my friends were either partying - or the complete opposite, being completely sober and just laughing hysterically over something completely stupid. I think everyone gets out of that stage at their own rate... some people just push it to the extreme (like the people I graduated with, who still go home to party with high school kids... yea....)
August 5th, 2008 at 01:42 am 1217900536
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