Boozie Suzie

It doesn't happen often, but when it does, it's a pretty bad scene for me. My advice to boozie suzie's of the world:

1. If you're going to drink, drink moderately, and not as fast as you can, although, it's really fun to get drunk as fast as you can, that way you don't have to nurse those bad boys and then it's not warm and gross at the bottom of whatever you're drinking.

2. Make sure you eat dinner before hand; this can be dangerous if you don't, you'll find out why the next morning.

3. Drink plenty of water in-between; if you don't dehydration will set in shortly after 3am when the room spins and....

4. If you find that you're way drunker than you should be and you haven't even gone out to the bar, find something to eat, even if it means taking that green bean off of your friends' neighbours' garden of growing beans. Yum!

5. When you do finally head to the bar don't actually take your drink with you in a plastic traveling cup, I know this seems logical, but it's not, trust me,  you might get stopped by a police officer. I'm pretty sure you can't drink on the streets, except for places like Vegas and France.

6. When you're this drunk, be sure to stick with your girlfriends, and don't go dancing with that weirdo guy who came with you because he's a friend of your friends friend who is back at the house barfing. Just let him dance with someone else. He's weird!

7. It's time to leave when you're dancing with your eyes closed. You're really drunk, and you can barely dance with the beat, and you're stumbling over your feat. It's time to go. Be sure to get your girlfriends to go with you. There are weirdos everywhere!

8. Make sure to get a cabby that's not going to rip you off. Although it's hard when you're drunk, but try to tell him not to go that way.

9. Try to avoid eating when you get home, it's late, you need to get some sleep. This is why you must follow rule 2 to avoid 9. Eating this late is not good, it sits in your stomach and just isn't healthy. My advice, stay away from pasta and cake. Personal experience.

10. When you receive drunken phone calls from friends who are visiting your other friends be sure to leave great drunken messages on their phones. It's good laughing material for the next day.

11. Advil, Advil, Advil!

Until your next drunken adventure, please follow these easy rules.

Yours,

Caryl

Update

As per my rollerblading accident, I would like to say that my face as officially healed, there is a little scar, but you can't really see it. For the fun of it I have included the deformed face and the after face:

Hooray for Vitamin E, polysporin, and some scar gel!!

Caryl

Real Life

Working is pretty satisfying, especially if you work 9-5 Monday to Friday and then get weekends off. It's comforting to know that you can get up everyday, go to work, and have fun, especially if it's a job that you like. Until that day, the day, it's all normal, except for the fact the day prior to today, which would be yesterday, 14 people were laid off. You're at your desk and you think you're safe, it's like when you're on Survivor or Big Brother and they say you're safe, but everyone is lying to your face, and you're really not safe at all. The girl from HR comes over to your desk, your heart sinks, she asks to talk to you in the board room, and your boss's boss is on the phone. You walk over with her, your heart at this point is now racing, so much so you think it's going to explode out of your chest. This is it. You think about the fact that you're going to die right there in that board room, wouldn't they feel bad. Maybe they'd think twice about letting you go. You sit in a shocked and confused state, while at the same time trying to keep it together. I mean, you're strong, don't show your weakness. When all of a sudden, here come the water works, flowing down the rapids, quickly and uncontrollably. You can't get a word in because you are consumed with salty, tear drops, and short breaths. The HR lady gives you a package of papers and your severance, which is nice, but how long will it really last you, you forget about it and you immediately need to go to your desk to get your things. Only, they won't let you. You insist you're fine, they insist they'll go for you, and that you can get your things after. You're left with no choice. HR girl comes with some of your things, you gather it up, and leave the building immediately. You try not to trip down the stairs, your eyes are filled with sadness, you're feeling pretty shitty, and shocked. Many things go through your head, was there something that you did? Did you spend too much time on facebook? Was it because I gossiped about that girl at the other office? Lucky for you, it wasn't you, it was them. Your manager offers a letter of reference. You feel pretty sad for a while, but then you continue on with your life and realize, perhaps this happened for a reason, but you still get out of bed, and head through life, wondering what's next for you.  It's not the end of the world. It's the next step to the next part in your life.

To new beginnings!

Until then,

Caryl

Driving

I was out on a jaunt the other day over by the big rock (my secret place in Toronto), when my vision happened to catch a lady trying to parallel park. I couldn't help be so consumed with her parking attempts. And I say attempts because I'm sure it took her 27 times to finally rest her automobile in the given parking space. It's funny how I find it mesmerizing watching people parallel park. And between you and me, I'll be like the 3rd person to tell you that I'm not the greatest parallel parker of all time, don't get me wrong, I have some issues, especially if it's a banana boat of a car, or those monstrous SUV type things. Continuing on, I sat there, what felt like half of an eternity, and still watched and she inched her way forward and backwards, putting the car into drive, then to reverse, while holding up cars. She finally made her way to the curb and managed to put into park. What's funny, is that the car behind her left immediately after she put the car in park. For all that, and she had plenty of room to maneuver her car. 

Well, that's about it, nothing exciting in there really, just wanted to share my experience with you.

Caryl