Post #80: Party, Party

I had a rather great weekend. Had a Christmas party on Saturday and I had to go to town to buy a present. One of those "let's all buy 5 euro presents". It is way hard to get anything worthwhile and something most people would like and something with just 5 euros, no more and no less. I went around for like an hour or two in like all the stores (this side of the river since I woke up too late to go on the other side). Nothing seemed to strike me as good. The usual story. Then just as I was giving up I came upon it. The best present with 5 euros one can get. A game. I think it must have been on like a huge sale since it cost 5.00 euros and was like mingling among all the more expensive games I was thinking of buying just for me. The best part was that it was like a party game with like pictures of people being bored and then starting to play the game and then having fun. It was perfect. The only problem was that one person in the party was flying back to Finland with Ryanair and so the package was sort of big.

Well the story of the present of course continues with the person flying home getting it but it was no matter since it seemed that she really liked it. I thought it was quite a fun game too. (Maybe I will go buy the other one for another 5 euro for Christmas. Now if you get one as a present from me then I'm sorry but the game was tried and tested and thus a present in which I have put thought and time.)

So we had good food at the party and lots to drink. Well not lots and lots but you get the idea. It was great fun really. I got a rather nice present too. This thing to hang on my window where I can burn a candle. I think tonight I shall use it. We even left to go to the city and I guided everybody (4 of us) to this Irish pub just because I wanted cider. Then we ordered a pitcher of Strongbow but got beer. But as all people know this is no matter since we did get the cider afterwards and we got to drink the beer that we had poured into our glasses for free. (Oh and I made a point of checking out this guy, who is in my lunch room at work, just for the sport of it. I should have continued this with saying hello to him today but not in the lunch room. I am the "strange foreign beauty" in there so that includes no talking or noticing other people.)

The we went to this disco club. The one with the weird card system where I have been once. At this moment of the story you might guess, if you know me, what happened. I was like, oh yeah, dancing. So I had some g&t, which I did not drink all the way since it was not good and too strong, and got to dancing. It was way fun since they played fun music. I was just by myself most of the time while dancing so you might guess what happened then, if you know how these things work. I happen to be innocently dancing along having fun and guys come and hit on me. It was quite disturbing in that I felt like telling them "oh I'm just dancing and I'm a foreigner so don't waste your time". It seemed not to work. Well I got rid of this one guy by being myself but it did not work with this other one. Well most likely it was because I decided to make a sport out of it since he was not so bad looking and could also dance. Company can't hurt. The funny thing is that he ended up being born in 1985 which just made it more fun in a way. Well I did not have much conversation with him with the language problem and the noise, which probably bothered me more, until he was begging me to go with him when the bar was closing at like 6 in the morning. Well I did not take up his offer since it goes against my ways. After all the begging (something about him only liking me in the bar and not the other girls and him not wanting to go home with his friends and such which in the end just made me say "too bad", schade, and think he should have chosen someone else) I decided to kind of take my leave after getting my coat. No phone numbers exchanged.

So yeah, that was quite fun. Getting out a bit and doing some dancing and such. Would have been kind of interesting to actually get a date but what can one do. The guy did not really seem the sort that usually gets interested in me so it was sort of weird. I don't think I look easy so that could not be it either. Maybe it was just all the fun I was having.

Meeting people in bars is just kind of weird. You never know what the other people want. It feels like I should at times wear like a sign with "I am going home alone but here for a good time". Then there would be no disappointment for the people who might otherwise waste their time with me. Oh but no matter. It's not my fault if people pick wrong. I'm not disturbed.

I got home safe. (My friends had left earlier as I chose to stay. This sort of thing seems to happen to me once in a while and it seems weird as it is usually in like strange places like Kuopio or such.) Slept till noon and had a sort of a hangover but it was mostly the lack of sleep. Or it might have been me getting sick since today I am actually in a flu of sorts. I am thus skipping a German class which I don't want to do since it is the next to last one but if I skip that I may be better tomorrow and actually get some work done unlike today.

Oh I got disappointed with these lyrics last week. I listened to the Tears in the morning and they have this song called "Lovers" and I am sure it went "it's written on her t-shirt and in her eyes - there is no other". I was like that is good. Really like cool or funny in a romantic sort of way. Then I had to check it on the internet and the song apparently goes "it's written on her t-shirt and it writes - there is no other". Boring.

But yeah I must go home to get better. Drink lots of tee and orange juice and smoothies and such. But the weekend was really nice. Went to eat the rest of the food on sunday too and watch a movie so I wasn't just home lazing around. I was elsewhere.