A Teeny Bit of Wine, Conversation, and A Song???????

The babies are napping; Will is running his man errands and Ernesto is drunk as a skunk...yes, it's just another peaceful Sunday around our house.
The reason I know that Ernesto is so drunk is that I saw him bring a table outside about five hours ago (it's 2:15 right now) and techno music poured forth from his basement..nts..nts..nts..nts.. (that's the techno beat)..anyhooo...why NOT get hammered early?? Right?
Last night I went to my girlfriend's 40th birthday party..it was fun to be out with a bunch of ladies..that I didn't know very well..
1. I could say anything I wanted and no one would judge me.
2. OF COURSE they would judge me, but I wouldn't care as much because I wouldn't see most of them again.
3. I could do a lot of starting at other women and listening in on their on conversations and not appear rude.
4. OF COURSE it was rude but I didn't care because I wouldn't see most of them again.
5. Conversation: " Well my husbands kids visited the museum last weekend and they just don't pick up after themselves."
"You call your house the museum?"
"My husband calls it that."
"Why don't you make his kids pick up?"
"They say they don't at home."
"Oh they're lying."

Of COURSE they're lying! They just HATE that they're dad lives in a MUSEUM with a new wife.
OOOPS but I didn't say that out loud!

6. Next conversation: "When I die someday will someone make sure all the sex toys are cleaned out of my drawer when they auction off my house?"
WHAT???????????!!!!!!!
"Of course we will!"
WHAT????????!!!!!!!

Old dead woman with a drawer full of sex toys..gag.
Should not have eavesdropped.

7. "I believe every woman should stay home until their children are three."
Oh shit balls.. I stopped eavesdropping and just dropped in. You know I did.
Me: "Yes, that is wonderful. If someone has the ching to stay home. By all means, stay home. Thankfully I am surrounded every day by women who cannot stay home. This makes it much easier to leave my small children, and go off to work where I have to spend all day with children your children's age. Didn't I eavesdr- I mean hear you say that you have an 8th grader?"

We did go to a wine tasting. I have never been so sober. The wines were all Minnesota wines. There is a reason why Minnesota is not known for its wines. There is a reason why people go to the NAPA Valley...not the Minnesota Valley, if you catch my drift.
But it really was a fun night and it was good to get out and be with some fun women that I don't normally get to see. I think women don't do this enough for themselves. We get so caught up mothering and working and wife-ing that it's a good break to just throw off your cardigan and cut loose with a bad version of "That Don't Impress Me Much" by Shania Twain in a tent full of women at the wine tasting! I am NOT saying anyone I KNOW did that....I am just saying, you know it MIGHT help get out some of that pent up aggression that I have been hanging on to......................................

and I feel a whole better today!
(wink wink)