Saturday Night Feverish ( now incorporating Manic Monday's to Therapeutic Thursday's )

You can always take your kids and go to the pub with them

I have a bunch of friends in your situation, Bregje. They're established with families and I don't even bother calling them for a night on the town anymore. If they have the time to spare, they'll call ME, I'm sure. Fortunately, I do have some single friends left, so there are plenty of parties to be found.

At 31 and single in the city, I REFUSE to grow up. I'm not ready. Not yet.

Cool!

Well, perhaps I'm a bad example. I know many people with children who still go out.

On the other hand, I know some single people too who 'complain' about their friends with children who completely quit going out. I can understand that. Unfortunately some people think they quit having fun too.

It's too bad having a family has this image of... like your life is over. We know some other people as well who don't want to have kids because they think their life will be over when they have kids. It's all up to you. You can still go out, travel, study, work, it doesn't all end suddenly! But it takes some organisation, yes. That's the only difference.

And I probably don't like going out because I never liked it. Not because I have kids.
Like I said, the people we know who always liked to go out, still do so now that they have kids.

You're not alone Bregje, one of my very best friends who I've known since 1988 hates going to pubs and clubs, in all the time I've known him I know EXACTLY how many times he's been to a pub...5, and each time with me, I've only seen him drunk once. He's very sociable, just not in a drinking/pubs/clubs way.

Steven for president!

I've always hated clubs too, I like to talk without shouting or being shouted at to get heard.

I'll join your club there...I mean pub...I mean talk.

Clubs and discos are fun, and I certainly don't go there to talk! Then again, there are many PUBS where they play loud music as well, so it's not that big of a difference. There are some places where they play too loudly, of course, but the day I begin to complain about loud music, dancing or too much alcohol...well then I'm getting too old!

Wait, Tim plays POOL!?

I know! Hard to believe innit!?

That is very true!
Not having any kids I can only surmise why that is, but I guess it has something to do with the stressful and exhausting first months-with-baby. Most of my married friends-with-children simply seem to have given up after that (or gotten used to the routine).

Some of them have created convoluted theories on proper child management that involve a minimum amount of time that should be spent with the kids and the way the should be involved in Every. Single. Aspect. of life (basically turning them into conversation pieces )
I don't see them much any more.

The friends I have that seem to be coping best (and interestingly seem to have the best behaved, sweetest, nicest and easy-going kids) are the ones that simply take everything in stride: they haven't changed their lifestyles, philosophies and behaviour to revolve around the child. They've adopted the child into their already existing lives.
Exactly like Bregje says: it just takes a bit more organization, but I still have the best time with them!

So it can be done.
Quite easily as well.
It just seems there are a LOT more people out there than used to be that are convinced (by an overdose of Doctor Phil or Oprah, most likely ) your life is over once the first little one pops out.


Anyway, on Saturday I went out to a sushi bar with my sister and brother-in-law.
There was this conveyer belt running through the restaurant with little plates with different kinds of sushi on it: you could just pick up what you wanted!
Apparently it's quite a usual way of handling sushi in Japanese restaurants, But I never saw it before.
We had a great time...though the bill at the end was quite horrendous.
(And I found out that Japanese beer though tasting quite mild has a bit of an afterkick )

Kaiten Sushi!
Yesterday I went to the Kaiten Sushi we use to go to in Barcelona. Best sushi I´ve ever tasted.

Played in the pop quiz last night where our six member team WON

An interesting "beer break" round ( beer break is where the quiz master takes a 20 minute break after handing out a quiz sheet to everyone to ponder over ) which consisted of 20 album covers with the title of the album blanked out, ranging from the easy ( Pink Floyd's Dark Side of The Moon ) to the hard ( Stankonia by Outkast ), we got all 20 correct and I put in my own tuppence worth by getting two correct that no one else knew, Goldfrapp's 'Seventh Tree' and John Martyn's 'Solid Air', the latter being easy-peasy for me as it's one of my all time favourite albums.


Tuesday 20th

Not sure how strong our team will be tonight? But we return as champions and hope to kick arse again.

It makes sense, I don't think many people here would bother with a thread dedicated to Monday, Tuesday etc

After having such a relaxing evening last night, no Mel, no TV, no music, no booze, just me n' a book I intend to get destroyed tonight