My husband, Tom, and daughter, Amelie, and I went to a full-on, authentic Mexican birthday party last night. When you drive through a neighborhood to get to a Mexican party, there's never a question of, "Okay, which house is the party?" Because you can hear it from a mile away.
They had a DJ outside, a buffet line with food like chicken enchiladas verdes, rice, beans, and chile rellenos. These are all foods that I LOVE. Unfortunately, it means there might be a major fart-fest later. Yep, I said it. You know you were thinking it.
I always apologize to my husband in advance, because I know the inevitable will strike later that night. Poor guy.
That party was awesome.
Which brings me to my next topic: I say the word "awesome" way, way too much. You know how when you're at a party, and you're really into a conversation with someone, and then you start to get self-concisous, so then everything you say plays back in your head like an echo?
No?
Shit.
Anyway, I was doing that last night at the party and I was getting on my own nerves! Ha! So, how do you pay attention to something someone is saying, while you're filtering yourself? I find that this is really a problem for me.
For introverted people (aka, ME) it takes such a massive amount of focus to converse. And it's frustrating, really, because last night the people I was socializing with were completely one with the conversation; they were a step ahead of me. It's almost like they were cheating! I call foul! Or something!
Really, I don't even know what it means to call "foul."
Which brings me to my next topic: I am very frightened that I will misuse a word or saying while I'm talking. This gets on my own nerves too! Here we go again with the filtering!
Sometimes I wish I was a walking Encyclopedia. Like that robot on "Close Encounters!" Wait. That was the correct movie reference, right?
The moral of the story is: Don't do drugs. Okay, okay, so that's not really the moral of the story. But it's a good moral to have! The moral of the story is, just relax.
I'm going to go put another shrimp on the barbie and make lemons out of lemonade.
See ya!
They had a DJ outside, a buffet line with food like chicken enchiladas verdes, rice, beans, and chile rellenos. These are all foods that I LOVE. Unfortunately, it means there might be a major fart-fest later. Yep, I said it. You know you were thinking it.
I always apologize to my husband in advance, because I know the inevitable will strike later that night. Poor guy.
That party was awesome.
Which brings me to my next topic: I say the word "awesome" way, way too much. You know how when you're at a party, and you're really into a conversation with someone, and then you start to get self-concisous, so then everything you say plays back in your head like an echo?
No?
Shit.
Anyway, I was doing that last night at the party and I was getting on my own nerves! Ha! So, how do you pay attention to something someone is saying, while you're filtering yourself? I find that this is really a problem for me.
For introverted people (aka, ME) it takes such a massive amount of focus to converse. And it's frustrating, really, because last night the people I was socializing with were completely one with the conversation; they were a step ahead of me. It's almost like they were cheating! I call foul! Or something!
Really, I don't even know what it means to call "foul."
Which brings me to my next topic: I am very frightened that I will misuse a word or saying while I'm talking. This gets on my own nerves too! Here we go again with the filtering!
Sometimes I wish I was a walking Encyclopedia. Like that robot on "Close Encounters!" Wait. That was the correct movie reference, right?
The moral of the story is: Don't do drugs. Okay, okay, so that's not really the moral of the story. But it's a good moral to have! The moral of the story is, just relax.
I'm going to go put another shrimp on the barbie and make lemons out of lemonade.
See ya!
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