My wolf pack and I have started a Friday ritual. Once we get off work, we plan to just grab a Bloody Mary...or two a couple of appies and then head home. Yeah, right. We start with the best of intentions but let me tell you what actually happens. It's 3:00 p.m. we start g-chatting counting down the minutes until 5. 3:59 p.m. only one more hour. 4:37 g-chat: Hey, you ready to go? Response: Yes, absolutely. We arrive, order our veggies in a glass and get down to business of recapping the week and making the plan on how to effectively and efficiently dominate the weekend. The rest of the crew arrives and before you know it, we're on round 2 and appetizer 3. Then, oh hey guys, you know it's pretty nice out, want to head over to the Tavern? All shout in unity, "YES!!" And here is where it all goes downhill. Tabs are started, drinks are flowing, laughter ensues. One of us will naturally gravitate toward the cute guys at the bar and the others will be in a corner being catty chatty cathy's because we can and sorry, we're not sorry. A few inappropriate tweets from our secret account later and whaddayaknow, it's 1 a.m.
Thank goodness for my amazing intuition which led me to living downtown a block away from the local establishments we frequent. I made my way home and hopped into bed remembering that the original plan was just to have a couple of drinks and enjoy some fantastic friendlies. At least we accomplished one of our goals, as for the other...I make it a priority to hydrate hydrate hydrate and to make sure that I have eggs to fry up in the morning.
In the end, I will never regret a night out with friends, it's good for my soul and I am grateful to be surrounded by such fun, kind and amazing friends. So, bring on the post-work margaritas, Bloody Mary's and beers! Just be sure to balance with food and water - key to success after college, the body just can't handle late nights like it used to. Curse of getting older and wiser.
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