\u00a0Well, it was.\u00a0 A while ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I overheard a conversation the other night as my husband and I sat at a\u00a0bar\u00a0swilling red wine, passing time in order to arrive at a Christmas party fashionably late.\u00a0Does anyone ever arrive at a party on the dot? \u00a0The woman, with\u00a0her date-at a table for two-\u00a0was waaaayyyyahead of us in the swilling of red wine department.\u00a0 She very loudly said something like:\u00a0\u00a0 “Heeeeeey, it was my 40th birthday yesterday and that gives me the permission to say fuck you to anything I don’t want to do anymore!!” She giggled that i’vehadtomuchtodrinkgiggle with a hair toss and went on about her conversation with her\u00a0date.\u00a0She was not loud anymore, so I could not overhear, so I just watched her for a bit.\u00a0Stolen fascinated I am not\u00a0looking glances.\u00a0Her turtleneck Harvard professor looking husband? boyfriend? had a red wine glow about him too( is there anything better than good red wine on a cold winter night?)..he liked her new attitude.\u00a0 40 or not. That got me to thinking.<\/p>\n
Personally, I think she was a bit older than 40-but you know how I feel about age defying, so who am I to comment?\u00a0 We made our way round the block to the partry and mingled about in the HoHoHo spirit of things.\u00a0 After a while, I noticed that same loud voice from before-and low and behold, a toss of the overpermedspiraledcurly hair- and there she was.\u00a0 Miss it’s my birthday.\u00a0 What are the odds?\u00a0 She was still in her red wine mode-and defiant in her\u00a0 “I cansayanythingIwantnow” frame of mind.\u00a0 In fact,\u00a0 after a quick, judgemental\u00a0perusal of the party it seemed everyone was in a “IcansayanddowhateverIwant” frame of mind.\u00a0 Is it\u00a0the economy?\u00a0 Are we all throwing caution of all sorts\u00a0into the winter wind knowing it won’t matter anyway? \u00a0Is it\u00a0the last\u00a0desperate grab at hope at the holiday time?\u00a0 Or was it just me-in my current- glib, bitterly cold and over exhausted frame of mind?\u00a0 And do Holiday parties always make men grab\u00a0and wear funny hats and women wear heels they can’t walk in\u00a0with stockings that are\u00a0 bound to run..and boobs?\u00a0\u00a0 Boobs on display at Holiday parties.\u00a0 Oops!\u00a0 These things- these “girls” they will say.\u00a0 And we all know the longer the party goes on- the more people drink, the more “honest” they get.\u00a0 I love it.\u00a0 really.<\/p>\n
In truth, I am more of an observer of these things knowing my observations will show up\u00a0in a character somewhere-in a musing-a snippet of each to add to my cavalcade of characters……but an extra glass of good red wine does help.<\/p>\n
Now on to decorating that tree.<\/p>\n