I just want to be sure it is posted on my blog, and that it is known I said it: Facebook Ruins Lives.
(My paranoia about not being quoted properly comes from a slew of expressions/phrases/words that I truly believe I created, never patented, and then found in magazines or other forms of media long after I had used them!)
Another one: I am not holding up a foam finger for Facebook ("Facebook" has often been replaced with anything or anyone I do not like.)
Monday, January 4, 2010
Sunday, January 3, 2010
Blame it on the Alcohol, right?
WRONG. This past New Year's Eve, I chose to stay sober, for the most part. Sober, for myself, is consuming one to three glasses of wine, over a five to seven hour time period. This was the case. What I noticed was partially hysterical, but mostly annoyingly disturbing.
People get really stupid when they get drunk. It was very uncomfortable to see people I knew act in ways which I know I have acted right along with them. You think you know someone. Now I know how annoyed and somewhat entertained my husband must be when I am throwing back the liquid and he is sipping his first or second beer, hours into our adventure.
It is a strange feeling, to watch people who are otherwise super cool behave in ways that make me feel embarrassed to know them. I mean, nothing crazy happened, nothing out of the drunken ordinary, however, watching a once quietly committed and always reserved friend dance and say things that don't make any sense, was quite a turn off.
Some people are able to disguise their intoxication, and I used to be one of them. Then, there are others who simply don't care, and don't feel the need to prove anything to anyone (that they can handle their liquor), and de-stress from their daily life (by flying off the handle after a few drinks). I have fallen into the category of the latter lately, and I openly blame it on stress. Why be perfectly in control at all times?
Well, there are reasons, and I do not need to go through them. For example, we met a new girlfriend of a friend of ours. Someone he has been dating for about a month, and seemed pretty serious about. She was pretty deep into the sauce when we first met up, and really took advantage of the truth serum excuse. I just found out yesterday that he has broke it off with her. This seems unfair, as he was acting just as drunkenly foolish as she was. Who is he to judge?
People get really stupid when they get drunk. It was very uncomfortable to see people I knew act in ways which I know I have acted right along with them. You think you know someone. Now I know how annoyed and somewhat entertained my husband must be when I am throwing back the liquid and he is sipping his first or second beer, hours into our adventure.
It is a strange feeling, to watch people who are otherwise super cool behave in ways that make me feel embarrassed to know them. I mean, nothing crazy happened, nothing out of the drunken ordinary, however, watching a once quietly committed and always reserved friend dance and say things that don't make any sense, was quite a turn off.
Some people are able to disguise their intoxication, and I used to be one of them. Then, there are others who simply don't care, and don't feel the need to prove anything to anyone (that they can handle their liquor), and de-stress from their daily life (by flying off the handle after a few drinks). I have fallen into the category of the latter lately, and I openly blame it on stress. Why be perfectly in control at all times?
Well, there are reasons, and I do not need to go through them. For example, we met a new girlfriend of a friend of ours. Someone he has been dating for about a month, and seemed pretty serious about. She was pretty deep into the sauce when we first met up, and really took advantage of the truth serum excuse. I just found out yesterday that he has broke it off with her. This seems unfair, as he was acting just as drunkenly foolish as she was. Who is he to judge?
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