Who does that?

Last weekend I invited a friend over for dinner. She was anxious to see my (sort of) new house, so I thought a nice evening with dinner and some board games would be a good time. The evening started out fine. My husband made a delicious dinner, and we all seemed to be having a good time. This good time severely diminished between my husband and I as my friend proceeded to get plastered at our house. The wine drinking began early in the evening, but it was no big deal because my husband and "Mary", we will call her, shared a bottle of wine, so two glasses at most for both of them. The night from hell got worse as Mary thought it would be a grand idea to open another bottle of wine! After my husband politely refused to share another bottle, Mary contiuned on her drunken adventure. Who does this? When the hostess or anyone else refuses the idea of drinking, I think its safe to say that the guest should also stop at that point, but nope, Mary had to indulge, this is just one of many mistakes Mary stumbled upon throughout the night. The biggest and most important one is who gets drunk the first time being invited over to someones house whom you don't know all that well?!

The night proceeded to get worse and worse. She got more drunk, louder, and much more abnoxious while adding every profanity into the mix! I was sitting across the table from her staring at her, embarrassed for her, thinking WHO DOES THIS?! My husband who could not handle it any longer left me and went upstairs. Alone with her, all I could do was sit and listen to her loud and abnoxious rants about dating, and how I should proceed to run my life as a mother (which by the way is not a status I own at the moment), how many kids I should have, all down to what kind of career I should get at the end of school! Again I ask you Who does this?? I know who does this no one I know. Yes I know Mary, but let me assure you she is not a close good friend, and there is a large chance she will never be asked back to the old homestead again!

Now if this was someone whom I was really good friends with, knew for a long time, I would have not cared, but this evening was not to be engaged in a drunken stupor. There was no mention of a few beverages being consumed before hand so I think its safe to assume that Mary lacks in the etiquette department, and I think encounters with Mary should be in small doses, perhaps over lunch in the middle of the day.

One thing I forgot to add, the weirdest thing of Mary's drunken rambles, is she asked if she should come and kiss me!! NOW WHO DOES THAT?! I am telling you, if you are going to invite someone over for dinner establish the drinking rules ahead of time. Perhaps make sure they are mentally in check with reality, and make sure you have an escape plan. I did not do any of these things, and it lead to a disappointing wasted Friday night!

Thank You

I applaud those professors who understand and realize the finiancial burden of students by not making us spend a sickly amount of money on books that may or may not get read. To all those understanding profs, as a student, we applaud and appreciate your efforts in trying to save us money that could be spent on better things, like food, shelter, and transportation rather than some book that we probably will end up throwing out, or selling back for a 1/3 of what we paid for it.

Thank You!

SIGNAL LIGHTS-Use them!

People these neither new nor fancy gadgets. They are very simple to find. Located on the left hand side of the steering wheel parallel to the winshield wipers is this magical lever called the turning signal. It goes up and down and depending on which way you flip it, this depends on the way you are turning. This handy dandy tool comes in useful to indicate to other drivers your next plan of action when you are on the road. When not used properly or not at all it is very irritating! I cannot stress the irritation felt by those of you who feel that you do not need to tell me which way you are turning. It is rude and inconsiderate and so i would just like to say USE THE DAMN TURNING SIGNAL! If you are unsure of where it is get the manual out, do some research, but for crying out loud use it, even if its improperly, its better than not at all. Not using it could result in some serious swearing and road rage. This is especially to the three cars from the parking lot on the weekend who all were turning and all of you failed to indicate the fact you were turning resulting me sitting at a stop sign for a lot longer than I had to. Just please use the turn signal...its not very complicated, and if it is then maybe you shouldn't be driving!

P.S.

Just so we are clear 29 is not old. To those 21-23 year olds in my study group who decided to tell me 29 was old...um just to let you in on a little secret I am in my 20's just like you are..I am just a few steps ahead of you and clearly a little more mature than you are! It really annoyed me that when someone said they were born in 1987 and I said I felt old only for you to tell me I was old!! I cannot wait until you turn 29 and watch a mental breakdown occur!! Have fun!

Dear Chatty Cathy

Chatty Cathy: I would like to apologize for judging you too soon. I told a lot of people that I was not very fond of you. This is not true. Outside of class I got a chance to hang out with you and it turns out you are a nice, potentially likeable person. However I do not retract the statement that you are annoying. That is still true. Well a very nice person, you are annoying. In class you dominate every conversation the class has, and if thats not bad enough you interrupt people every chance you get. I am all for people having opininions but you take the cake sister! When someone has something to say, especially if it goes against your opinion you jump all over that like a fat kid on a smartie!! Because I only knew you in class and never saw you outside of class I automatically did not like you. Not because you have your own opinion because anyone who knows me knows I certainly have mine and am not afraid to share it, its because of your rudness to those people in class. In our study group I found that you can be a very cool person...JUST STOP TALKING SO MUCH! Even in the small group we had you did the same as in class. Interrupted, talked too loud and too much, thinking your point is more important than everyone else's. So while we chatted in the discussion group, bonded over some school experiences and you seem nice enough, I am glad class is over. Of course I will say hi in the hallway should you say hi first, but a lunch date, or a "hey lets get together on the weekend" will probably not ever happen. It might even go as far as if you are in the same class as me it could mean me finding a different class.

Dear Mr.C

Your exam sucked a big pile of ass. Do you know what time of year it is? Do you think that students have that much time to study as much crap as you gave us to study..do you think that anyone actually studied all that crap you gave us. Your exam was was too long with too much writing. Because I cannot tell you to your face I thought I would take this opportunity to express my feelings here! Also something else I would like to say was your class was boring. You can't expect to grasp people's attention by just simply reading your notes that you typed up the night before, nor can anyone get anything from it b/c people cannot write as fast as you read. thanks for a class of nothing and wasting my money! To be clear I did not give you a good evaluation but like anyone looks at those, not that anyone who will decide your future will look at this, but it makes me feel better to express how I feel in some way!

Our neighbors

I have been reading a blog for a while now. Its a fairly well known blog that gets a lot of comments. I like reading it, its entertaining, interesting and exciting. Right now the lady who writes the blog is pregnant, she has told everyone previously that she is on happy medication and is going to continue taking that medication. That is great, if that is what will keep her sane and it doesn't hurt the baby that is awsome. I have read a lot of comments posted on the blog and I have come to the conclusion that it appears that a lot of people from across the border are on medication! I mean alot, every second comment it seemed was thanking her for her inspiration to stand up for herself to those who don't agree with her taking meds and those comments stating they were going to keep on theirs. I don't have a problem with taking meds or anything like that I just find it extremely interesting the amount of people who are on them! What is going on over there that people need to be on a thousand different medications I wonder?!

Speaking of pregnancy, I know so many people who either are pregnant now, or just had a baby. There is a lot of them these days! A couple of them were only married for like a month before getting pregnant. Nothing wrong with that but people are getting busy fast with this whole baby thing! In a sad way I am not one of those people, not for a least another year or so. To all of you who are gasping at the fact that I said it was sad I was not one of them...I do like children and want them, I just have to wait because life is too hectice at the moment to take on kids and everything else!