Normally a crazy fun night out with friends for me requires no spirits or beer. In fact, I don't really like any beer, but last night proved to be otherwise. It was a relaxed atmosphere and though I was most certainly the light weight and I think I remember dancing on a light post (or was that at the ATM? or the tree?) and crawling into my friend's bathroom (not because I couldn't walk or felt sick, I was just being goofy because their railing was temporarily removed), it was a pleasantly low key type of drinking.
I think I've never truly benefited from a night out drinking before for the very reason that I am such a light weight. I mean, the light post stuff was only after 2 margaritas. It seems when I get tipsy, or even drunk, no one around me ever is. This makes my loose grip on social appropriateness and lack of inner dialogue the center of attention. However, while I certainly was drunk first last night, these friends seemed determined to catch up with me and I felt less like a spectacle or an annoyance. As the boys fell asleep we talked and laughed late into the night(which for me now is 2 am).
I've been drunk alone with Chris before. Neither of us can hold our wine and he usually refrains from drinking in public. And that is always fun. But we have a propensity toward being silly and goofy anyhow. So it can lump in as just another crazy night at the Nyland's.
But I think that is is the key.
I would have had fun with these people regardless of the pomegranate margaritas or the rum and coke (home mixed). That is what I am discovering. You can't simply drink with just anyone to get the full benefit. It has to be someone you enjoy anyway. Maybe this isn't entirely true, and when drunk you probably care way less, but I think that is where the idea of fun and drinking come through. Why the association is so strong no matter how many people throw up in cars and get boated to the side of the curb (true story, I learned it last night).
On that note, maybe the people need not only be fun but have boundaries as well. Add a dash of responsibility into the mix.
Luckily for me no one else was drunk enough to take me up on my idea of sledding down the stairs on a mattress or in a cardboard box and I am even easier to distract when I'm not fully sober.
I think I've never truly benefited from a night out drinking before for the very reason that I am such a light weight. I mean, the light post stuff was only after 2 margaritas. It seems when I get tipsy, or even drunk, no one around me ever is. This makes my loose grip on social appropriateness and lack of inner dialogue the center of attention. However, while I certainly was drunk first last night, these friends seemed determined to catch up with me and I felt less like a spectacle or an annoyance. As the boys fell asleep we talked and laughed late into the night(which for me now is 2 am).
I've been drunk alone with Chris before. Neither of us can hold our wine and he usually refrains from drinking in public. And that is always fun. But we have a propensity toward being silly and goofy anyhow. So it can lump in as just another crazy night at the Nyland's.
But I think that is is the key.
I would have had fun with these people regardless of the pomegranate margaritas or the rum and coke (home mixed). That is what I am discovering. You can't simply drink with just anyone to get the full benefit. It has to be someone you enjoy anyway. Maybe this isn't entirely true, and when drunk you probably care way less, but I think that is where the idea of fun and drinking come through. Why the association is so strong no matter how many people throw up in cars and get boated to the side of the curb (true story, I learned it last night).
On that note, maybe the people need not only be fun but have boundaries as well. Add a dash of responsibility into the mix.
Luckily for me no one else was drunk enough to take me up on my idea of sledding down the stairs on a mattress or in a cardboard box and I am even easier to distract when I'm not fully sober.
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