Nov 01, 2009 19:47
One situation in my life that seems to plague me is the fact that I'm not a big partier. Although I can push myself to do the monthly night out of drinking a bit too much and staying up until the early hours, it's not the activity I'd pick on my own, and I rarely find it as fun as everybody else seems to.
Last night I didn't go out to some big Halloween party that loads of people attended, and Jason threw a fucking temper tantrum. What a horrible, unsociable person I am. How embarrassing that he has to go somewhere, god forbid, without me. And then, good heavens, the embarrassment that follows when he has to explain I was tired and didn't feel like coming! How dare I not act like the girlfriend I'm supposed to be....etc.etc.
This was all after I'd gone out to eat dinner and to Universal Studios for their Halloween parade that wasn't a Halloween parade because Jason messed up the time...
I'm half tempted to make twice weekly board game, Father Ted watching, Shabu Shabu dinner social events and post them on facebook, then act like a 5 year old whose lost his ice cream when people do not show up to every last one. But being the relatively sane, somewhate objective person I am, I wouldn't assume my invitees hated me, but rather they weren't fond of board games!!!
And you know what, if people (as Jason says) don't want to be my friend because I don't spend 10 hours out of every week with them doing something I generally find mindnumbingly boring, well, I don't really care. It wouldn't impact any friendship worth having. I seriously need to find some geeks here. Then get mad when Jason doesn't stay to eat pizza and play Settlers for 8 hours.