bruises

May 5, 2008 at 10:13 PM
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I feel a little bad about saying this, but Dancer Girl is just annoying the hell out of me right now. She gets really obnoxious and loud and crazy when she's drunk, and she's always drunk. How come drunks always need to be the center of attention?

And she does this annoying thing my mother used to always do, where she just doesn't have a filter between her brain and her mouth. Like when she told me the Handsome Dentist was an Aquarius, I quietly said "oh that's not so good, my last two Aquarius boyfriends ended up hitting me." Before I knew what was happening, she turns around and shouts so everyone can hear, "You don't hit your girlfriends, do you!?" Making it look like I said he looks like someone who did.

She does this type of thing ALL THE TIME. I'm almost scared to open my mouth.

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Japanese girls always have bruises on their legs. I don't know why, but it's true. I seem to have inherited the easily bruised Japanese legs. I had a few more than usual this past week because of my disastrous tequila night with the aforementioned Dancer Girl last week.

Last time we hung out, Best Friend pointed out all the bruises -- which she knows are because I'm Japanese -- and asked about the weird welt/gash on my hand. She's sober and has her life together, so I hate telling her about the stupid things I do. But I mumbled something really quick like "I drank too much and woke up with some bruises." She gave me a "poor you" face and put her hand on my shoulder.

My heart broke for myself a little.

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I always thought the bruises had something to do with kneeling/seiza all the time. And bugs, somehow. But come to think of it I don't see bruises on guy's legs in this country.

Ugh I hate attention whores like your friend. Especially drunk ones...thats why I like to go to a chill quiet little places, have martinis and good conversation.

Workaholic Hostess replied to Your Little Princess’ comment:
May 6, 2008
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Uh oh, I feel bad. I love her really, I was just venting.

Workaholic Hostess replied to claytonian’s comment:
May 6, 2008
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The mystery grows mysteriouser. I think everyone bangs their legs all the time, but people like me just get bruises every single time that happens (maybe diet's to blame?), and other people only get bruises when they REALLY bang into things.

My half-Japanese daughter has lots of bruises on her legs, but she's like 14 months old and tends to fall over a dozen times an hour. So that's not very helpful data.