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bloodsong1) wrote2013-07-08 09:37 pm
bloodsong1) wrote2013-07-08 09:37 pm
4th at the Lake House, continued...
So that was my brave time. I no longer have anything to prove about going in the lake. Give me a floatie and I'll hang out and not feel lonely.
The food was excellent. We had only brought alcohol, as this is a very wet weekend (hahaha). There was a most excellent pasta salad with various veggies, pulled pork, barbecue pulled chicken, chicken speedies, a variety of cakes, cupcakes and muffins, other creamy salads, tomato and cucumber salad, hot dogs and hamburgers and so on. Food was prepared and set out in waves, so I grazed my way through Saturday and most of Sunday. By Sunday night over half the guests were gone, so pizza was brought in. It was good pizza. Today the last of us went out for lunch at a nice hole in the wall in Deposit called Koo Koose (I think). It's a bar with an excellent grill menu and a certified chef in the kitchen. I had the peasant soup, which was kale, potatoes and sausage in a minestrone-type base. It was delicious and the grilled cheese came on excellent bread.
The drinking, well. I had considered getting drunk Saturday night, but then I was reminded of the barge ride after dark, so I nixed that plan. Sunday night I decided I would share in the Jeigermeister (sp? *shrug*) shots, had one, chased it with water and that was it. I fire-tended while SNB and C went out on the barge again. By the time they got back I was tired and SNB was tired. As the guest list had dropped from roughly 50 to 10, we were allowed to sleep inside on a futon instead of in our tent. I didn't mind either way, SNB wasn't happy with how the air mattress had deflated during Saturday night, so we went with the futon. SNB's guess is that the shop vac that inflated the mattress didn't do a good job the first time. We had brought our Rainbow R2 unit, but it was left in the car when the shop vac was offered. Next time, we'll either bring the Rainbow R2 or I'll buy an air pump.
Over the course of the weekend I had a bottle of apple ale, six-seven jello shots, a half-shot of Jeiger, a few swigs of cranberry juice and vodka, and a brandy with fruit juice. All was consumed over the course of hours, with the exception of two jello shots and the Jeiger. I paced myself so well I only got the numb tongue effect after the Jeiger and that faded fairly quickly. Unlike a good amount of the guests, I stayed off the alcohol while on the lake, with the exception of the two swigs of cranberry vodka juice. I also wasn't pounding back bottle and/or can after bottle and/or can of beer, or knocking back jello shots every ten minutes. I had put aside a hard lemonade Sunday afternoon, but I got bored watching the MtG game and went inside for a nap. When I woke up, the bottle was gone, so I shrugged it off.
I guess it's just one more reminder of how this is not my crowd and likely will never be my crowd. While I would like to get wasted again, I fall asleep so quickly it almost seems pointless. I can count on one hand the times I've been as drunk as some of the other guests and I started in my mid twenties. Oh well. The important thing is having a good time. I can have a good time without the alcohol, or with a small amount over a period of time and if I get bored, I can nap or find a book to read.
The one disappointment was the lack of gaming. We had all our people there, but there were so many other gamers that MtG took front and center. That way people wouldn't feel left out. There was a certain logic to that, as many games of MtG were played over the course of the weekend. I didn't feel left out, just bored Sunday night and this morning. However, I was looking forward to killing goblins and maybe getting that stupid Bard resurrected.
All in all, I'd call it a good weekend. I had fun, I faced a phobia and found a way to work with it, and I got to meet a few interesting kids. Yes. Kids. Barely over 21, some of them and a few did not believe I was 35. *sigh*
The food was excellent. We had only brought alcohol, as this is a very wet weekend (hahaha). There was a most excellent pasta salad with various veggies, pulled pork, barbecue pulled chicken, chicken speedies, a variety of cakes, cupcakes and muffins, other creamy salads, tomato and cucumber salad, hot dogs and hamburgers and so on. Food was prepared and set out in waves, so I grazed my way through Saturday and most of Sunday. By Sunday night over half the guests were gone, so pizza was brought in. It was good pizza. Today the last of us went out for lunch at a nice hole in the wall in Deposit called Koo Koose (I think). It's a bar with an excellent grill menu and a certified chef in the kitchen. I had the peasant soup, which was kale, potatoes and sausage in a minestrone-type base. It was delicious and the grilled cheese came on excellent bread.
The drinking, well. I had considered getting drunk Saturday night, but then I was reminded of the barge ride after dark, so I nixed that plan. Sunday night I decided I would share in the Jeigermeister (sp? *shrug*) shots, had one, chased it with water and that was it. I fire-tended while SNB and C went out on the barge again. By the time they got back I was tired and SNB was tired. As the guest list had dropped from roughly 50 to 10, we were allowed to sleep inside on a futon instead of in our tent. I didn't mind either way, SNB wasn't happy with how the air mattress had deflated during Saturday night, so we went with the futon. SNB's guess is that the shop vac that inflated the mattress didn't do a good job the first time. We had brought our Rainbow R2 unit, but it was left in the car when the shop vac was offered. Next time, we'll either bring the Rainbow R2 or I'll buy an air pump.
Over the course of the weekend I had a bottle of apple ale, six-seven jello shots, a half-shot of Jeiger, a few swigs of cranberry juice and vodka, and a brandy with fruit juice. All was consumed over the course of hours, with the exception of two jello shots and the Jeiger. I paced myself so well I only got the numb tongue effect after the Jeiger and that faded fairly quickly. Unlike a good amount of the guests, I stayed off the alcohol while on the lake, with the exception of the two swigs of cranberry vodka juice. I also wasn't pounding back bottle and/or can after bottle and/or can of beer, or knocking back jello shots every ten minutes. I had put aside a hard lemonade Sunday afternoon, but I got bored watching the MtG game and went inside for a nap. When I woke up, the bottle was gone, so I shrugged it off.
I guess it's just one more reminder of how this is not my crowd and likely will never be my crowd. While I would like to get wasted again, I fall asleep so quickly it almost seems pointless. I can count on one hand the times I've been as drunk as some of the other guests and I started in my mid twenties. Oh well. The important thing is having a good time. I can have a good time without the alcohol, or with a small amount over a period of time and if I get bored, I can nap or find a book to read.
The one disappointment was the lack of gaming. We had all our people there, but there were so many other gamers that MtG took front and center. That way people wouldn't feel left out. There was a certain logic to that, as many games of MtG were played over the course of the weekend. I didn't feel left out, just bored Sunday night and this morning. However, I was looking forward to killing goblins and maybe getting that stupid Bard resurrected.
All in all, I'd call it a good weekend. I had fun, I faced a phobia and found a way to work with it, and I got to meet a few interesting kids. Yes. Kids. Barely over 21, some of them and a few did not believe I was 35. *sigh*