Um...how did I get so old????

So we go to this club night for New Year's Eve...you pay a certain price and you can get into four different clubs all within walking distance to one another. Well, we made it to only one, but that was plenty!!! I had on new shoes - I thought wedges were sensible, but perhaps it was the teal satin part that wasn't . Anyway, within just a few minutes I felt like I had smoked about 5 packs of cigarettes, my ears were ringing and I already detected bruising in just about every part of my body where I had been bumped, pinched and unceremoniously groped. That's all not to mention the fact that I was wearing at least a little of just about every drink the bar had dispensed that evening.

I fought the urge to shoot someone until what I thought was a respectable 3am, when I finally convinced a very hyper DH (ah, Redbull and vodka ) that it was time to go. I felt okay about all of that, until the next day around noon, when DH called a friend we were out with, who was still UP!!!!!! They didn't even leave the bar until 9:30 in the morning!

And all I wanted all night was to be home reading my new cookbook...Is that wrong?

PS: shoes are unsalvagable

At least I know that it's just not me!!

All we wanted to do was to stay in and watch movies. However, I had some friends in town that insisted that we go to this party in Queens. We lasted until about 1am...and then quietly left for home.

Ironically, last year we were in a London club with DH's family and had more fun...but I was still ready to pack it in after around 12:30am.

Right there with you, girlfriend.

I am right there with you.

3am?? I was asleep for an hour by then! And that's after an early evening nap!

This is not our year for shoes Farah, but they were cute while the lasted!

You're not alone. I spent New Years in my home with DH and our kittens. We made a nice dinner, relaxed, watched the ball drop, DH fell asleep on the couch while I baked some cookies and we went to sleep.

Last time we were in a club a few weeks ago (my brother BEGGED me to go hear him in a band he was playing with) we left around 12:30-12:45 because we were exhausted and felt SO out of place.

I think it is a good thing that we aren't that young anymore, though. I observed the way the young college-aged girls were behaving and so many of them (not all, but a lot) seemed either trashed and foolish or horribly insecure (their body language said a lot)


Sorry about your cute shoes, though. I had a New Year's like that where my fave clothes didn't work as planned.

I hear you......Just cant do what I use to do even though my mind say yes, my body is screaming NO!! New Years I was home in bed by 1:30am with FH.
I plan on doing some partying within the next few weeks but, I know I will miserable 1/2 into my night showing my age and how it does affect you!

I hear you Farah! I was never one for the whole bar scene to begin with. I have only been in a club on a few occassions and the whole time felt out of place and uncomfortable. I just can't have fun with a bunch of obnoxious drunk guys hanigng around all night. Even when DH is with me, I just want to go home and read a book on my comfy couch! I feel like such an old lady sometimes too, bc my youngest sis is the biggest party animal and she's alwasy telling me about these wild escapades that ensue whenever she goes out with her friends... and she's only 2 years younger than me. I don't envy her though - it's not my thing and I'm much happier home with DH, baking something yummy New Years is normally very quiet for us where we stay home and have a few drinks, and watch the ball drop together. This year we just went to a friend's house and did the same thing, but it was quiet. Just my speed

It is nice to see that there's so many other girls who feel like this too!! So what does that make us - the Old Young Marrieds now?

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Posted by MonkeyLuv

3am?? I was asleep for an hour by then! And that's after an early evening nap!

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Ditto that

Farah - you definitely deserve kudos for making it that long .. i would have given up once that wall of cigarette smoke hit me

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Posted by wc0143

We had takeout, watched Elf and were in bed to see the ball drop ... and asleep about ten minutes later!!!

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That sounds like the perfect night, but only if it was chinese takeout! We went to my DH's friend's girlfriend's place for a small party, but she got very drunk and depressed and started throwing beer bottles at which point I decided it was time to leave...Well, she also lives in our complex and they follow us home, where she proceeds to say she thinks she is going to puke...It was about 50 seconds to midnite now...So then after the ball drops her boyfriend takes her home, only to come back 15 mins later saying she locked herself out and the keys must be at our place. We spend the next half hour looking for and finally locating her keys. The next night they come over again, and that time he succeeded in breaking one of our kitchen chairs as they had a screaming fight...

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Posted by nov04LIbride

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Posted by wc0143

We had takeout, watched Elf and were in bed to see the ball drop ... and asleep about ten minutes later!!!

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That sounds like the perfect night, but only if it was chinese takeout! We went to my DH's friend's girlfriend's place for a small party, but she got very drunk and depressed and started throwing beer bottles at which point I decided it was time to leave...Well, she also lives in our complex and they follow us home, where she proceeds to say she thinks she is going to puke...It was about 50 seconds to midnite now...So then after the ball drops her boyfriend takes her home, only to come back 15 mins later saying she locked herself out and the keys must be at our place. We spend the next half hour looking for and finally locating her keys. The next night they come over again, and that time he succeeded in breaking one of our kitchen chairs as they had a screaming fight...

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WOW!!! Sounds like she's got a problem! glad it was only my shoes...

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Posted by usuk2004

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Posted by nov04LIbride

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Posted by wc0143

We had takeout, watched Elf and were in bed to see the ball drop ... and asleep about ten minutes later!!!

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That sounds like the perfect night, but only if it was chinese takeout! We went to my DH's friend's girlfriend's place for a small party, but she got very drunk and depressed and started throwing beer bottles at which point I decided it was time to leave...Well, she also lives in our complex and they follow us home, where she proceeds to say she thinks she is going to puke...It was about 50 seconds to midnite now...So then after the ball drops her boyfriend takes her home, only to come back 15 mins later saying she locked herself out and the keys must be at our place. We spend the next half hour looking for and finally locating her keys. The next night they come over again, and that time he succeeded in breaking one of our kitchen chairs as they had a screaming fight...

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WOW!!! Sounds like she's got a problem! glad it was only my shoes...

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See? Puts everything in perspective