For those of you who might think I was drunk-blogging again last night, well, OK, I was. But the picture was blurry on purpose, to protect the innocents. I actually have good pictures on a real camera of The Overachievers Club reunion from yesterday. That's what I used to call this bunch of folks (several were missing last night) I attended prep-college with. In the years that followed our 2 years of schooling together, we went on to collect an obscene amount of diplomas and degrees, everyone speaks several languages and we have lived in so many countries, there was a time there were very places in the world you couldn't find a couch to crash on (including Spain, Beligium and Nepal).
Yet what we do best is get together and laugh, talk, and yes, drink. This used to be an annual event. Every year, during the week between Christmas and New Years, we'd have a party and get together, since most of us, no matter who lived where, came home for the holidays to visit family. The tradition stood for many many years, but after people started getting married and having kids, the visits home were less frequent. My friend C, who was the seed for last night's gathering, hadn't been home in 7 years. So while the locals have seen each other during that time, it was fantastic to gather the gang and remember old times.
The scary thing is that we have now known each other longer than we have not known each other..... We were all 17/18 when we met, and that was 20 years ago..... I'm very old. (though apparently, I can still hold my booze. There was concern I might have a headache this morning but I'm very happy to report that I did not, and I went to work on time!)
A couple of things:
1) You are NOT old because if you are old then there's a good chance I am too since I think we are just a couple of years apart. My "gang" of friends have known each other since elementary/junior high school so we've been friends for, gulp, twenty five years or more......we still love to get together for a sleep over once a year. Certainly NOT old, lol.
2) Drunk blogging is not a bad thing. Sounds like a fun time, and not something an old person would do.
3) I had a few drinks, okay seven, at a golf tournament last month and realized it was the most I had had to drink in one day since 1992. Mild queaziness the next day but not too bad. I didn't have the technology to blog drunk though.
Okay, maybe I am old.
Posted by: Melissa | August 16, 2008 at 06:39 PM
It was a fun time, wasn't it?
I'm glad I managed the feat of getting some of the old gang together, though I noticed how "reasonable" so many of us have gotten.
You're still the life of the party :-)
C
Posted by: C | August 26, 2008 at 08:22 AM