New Year’s Eve 2010 was spent in Brooklyn, at a small party with friends:
Many of you know that I don’t drink. I’m game to taste everything and can handle a toast when tradition demands… but tasting/toasting aren’t enough to get someone drunk.
The downside to being a non-drinker? By the time the ball fell, I was the soberest person present, and MAN OH MAN do drunk people say unforgettable things. Nice or nasty. Come morning, only the sober party-goer will remember.
But the upside to teetotaling is significant; I felt fine on New Year’s Day! Not everyone does.
New Year’s Day, 2011:
Dumpsters, barbed wire, piled snow; real life in Brooklyn. No glamor shots here, folks.
The upside to fast fashion’s cyclical color palette? Eventually, a color you like will come into vogue. For me, that color was muted teal, and my indiscriminate purchasing creating an obvious downside— my small wardrobe matches just a tad too well. Let’s hope it doesn’t catch on.
May your new year be filled with upsides.
Ah, I’m the same way! Last New Year’s Eve I ended up (foolishly) getting into an argument with a very drunk girl over the repercussions of Edward Said’s theory of Orientalism on modern literature, and it practically turned into a screaming match. Granted, it may have ended up that way regardless of drink, but…
Sometimes it’s hard being the sober one, but it’s always nicer the next day.
I love the full skirt on you, and I understand your musings regarding the returned cocktail dress – that silhouette is gorgeous on you.
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The upside to being sober while everyone else is drunk is that everyone wants to check YOUR Facebook in the morning. In that first photo, you look like you’re watching a drunk person fall down, or something.
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I have that same inclination toward teal. I now have to actively tell myself NOT to buy teal clothing.
The monochrome outfit looks vintage.
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Hahaha…
over the years, I have disocvered:
hanging out with a bunch of drunks is only fun if you’re drunk too, otherwise you realize how idiotic everyone looks and you don’t get anyone’s jokes (which they think are hillarious…)
it’s really fun and almost worth the health risks of being a raging alcoholic to be the only one who got wasted the night before and _still_ feels fine the next morning… hehehehe
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Katie – DON’T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON EDWARD SAID’S THEORY OF ORIENTALISM ON MODERN LITERATURE. Because some things, I can’t even bluff.
Thank you! Full skirts are hard to come by, but they’re pretty much the only kind I can wriggle into. I have two pencil skirts, but they were rare finds.
Cynthia – Darn! I should have kept Facebook, if only for New Year’s sake. I believe I was watching two drunk people play team Tetris.
Angela – You too? It’s not that I love teal so much, but that the other options are usually black, mustard, and royal purple. Don’t worry, we’ll be drowning in the new Season’s Hottest Color soon… some say it’ll be fuschia. Boy oh boy.
Sierra – Ah, but I can I learn to be drunk-enough-for-hilarity without getting so-drunk-I-throw-up-my-own-innards? That’s a real skill!
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