Last night the family got together to celebrate my mother-in-law's birthday with one of those "anything but cups" (ABC) parties.
If you've never heard of that before, it's where everyone shows up with their own drinking vessel, but it can't be a cup. Some people brought little toy dump trucks from the dollar store, one person brought a wine decanter, and someone even drank their alcoholic beverage straight out of a water gun all night.
But here's the thing about drinking out of anything besides a cup, or the bottle/can the beverage usually comes in: you're not really sure how much you're actually drinking.
How much is a flower pot-worth of white wine? Not sure, but I can't remember the last half of the party, so I'm assuming a lot.
So, suffice it to say, I'm definitely feeling the effects of that decision today and I'm not exactly living my best life over here.
It's a pajamas-and-coffee-in-the-dark kind of day for me.
Never heard of that one either?
Well, everyone wears a white shirt that they've written a "white lie" on the front of. Last night's examples included "I love hosting," "Weed? Never heard of it," and "I don't mind being DD."
And what happened by the end of the night? I proved that, indeed, I had chosen the right white lie.
Let's all try to be self-aware here, guys. If you love your booze, don't hide it: flaunt it.
But maybe reconsider drinking it out of a flower pot. Just saying.
