Ahhh.. what's that I feel? A wave of inspiration has come over me.
But first, my weekend!
Friday night wasn't all that great. Beth stayed the night at her Aunt's place in Scarborough (freakishly close to Julia, mind you.. but anyway..), so I used that night to just chill... I stayed in and got some well needed sleep. 16 hours later it's 4:30pm on Saturday, and I'm tripping over my legs because they haven't been used for two thirds of a day.
Ahhh ok, I have feeling in my legs back. I start playing Zuma (Jess, by the way, I hate you. Brian hates you. Beth hates you. All for bringing this into my life. =P)... Beth eventually showed up, she told me about her night, and quickly made it upstairs to get ready.
Get ready?
Oh right, I forgot to mention that there was a Saint Patrick's Day party going on downtown that we were going to... a friend here (Davonna) knew the guy hosting, so we got $5 off the cover.. yay for connections!
Ok, so we were all getting dressed up in our finest green duds... Brian and I started the party a little early with the vodka, tequila, and triple blacks stored in his room... Then we went up to see the ladies.. *fans himself* ooooo.. ladies.
They had made Strawberry Daiquiris.. REAL daiquiris with a blender and everything, not the bottled kind.. We didn't have a glass, so Brian and I decided drinking out of the blender was smart..... we later hyjacked a measuring cup and used that instead... yay for creativeness!
We got to the party, and it was great.. it was a *fantastic* atmosphere.. Just some people really into having a good time. The appartment was a little cramped for the number of people in there, however, once we got in and sat down on the bed in the blacklight room, everyone kinda settled and all was good... The patio? nice.. I dont know if it was 600 square feet like the website says, but it was nice. I ranked up a vodka and coke, 4 jello shooters, and a drink of Hill's Absinthe. If you ever have a chance to see someone prepare absinthe, it's cool.... Half of the drink is poured into a glass... then a sugar cube (treated with absinthe in the first place so it'll burn) is held over the glass with a spoon (as seen here, above the glass in the gift set. The sugar cube is drizzled with the remaining shot of absinthe, torched and allowed to burn for a minute or so... the sugar burns away. Cold water is poured over the sugar cube (5 parts water to 1 part absinthe). Water is used because the absinthe has herbal oils dissolved into the high-proof alcohol (incase u missed it, it's 70%), and mixing with water causes those oils to come out of solution and turn the drink a cloudy greeny/white colour. The sugar cube is then allowed to fall into the drink, mixed with the solution, and served. Why'd I get into that? It's just plain cool.
Anyway.. my talley.. 4 jello shots, vodka and coke, 1 absinthe.... pre drinking I saw 2 shots of Goldshlager, 2 triple blacks, a shot of vodka, and a good portin of the Strawberry Daiquiri.
Sunday was spent.... resting. Hey - maybe that's why God rested on the 7th day...? he went to an appartment party the night before... *lightbulb*
That was my weekend! And now I'm here writing to you.. but what is the point of this post you ask? Simple.. read on.
Robbie, a friend of mine from highschool, has recently decided to hop aboard the blogging train. I just finished reading his post entitled Everybody's Doing It from 24.03.13. All I've gotta say to you Robbie, is good for you. Not for picking the side that you did, but for openly speaking about such a controversial topic, and allowing (as well as promoting) a forum for a friendly debate. Kutos.
For those that dont want to head over right away to read Robbie's blog, I'll sum it up. It's his honest opinion that, with his roommates and their friends as test subjects, weed is no worse than alcohol.
Now here's where the supposed bias comes in... I still think Robbie is great for opening such a controversial topic up for discussion, but you're all probably going to just think I'm saying that because of what I'm going to say next... I agree with him.
I can whole-heartedly say that I agree with that message brought across through Robbie's words. Do I promote pot? Hell no. Do I sell it? nope. Do I want to do either of these things? not at all. Me simply saying that I agree with the idea that weed is no worse than alcohol doesn't mean that I endorse it, use it regularly, or want to go out and buy my first pipe. All I'm saying is that I think the stigma around weed is just that... It got a bad rep, and it's badly beaten because of it.
Yes, I know it's a drug. But tell me one thing that weed does that alcohol doesn't.. (this is an honest request here.. I sincerely dont know).
It was explained to me by a chemistry professor from York University like this.... Picture your brain like a telephone switchboard.. Every plug you insert into a port is another message or impulse. When you drink, you're only inserting half of the plugs that you normally would.. the message gets so fizzled along the way that they just die off. Wheras when one smokes pot, those messages aren't killed, but they're scrambled.... they're not put into the appropriate ports... or maybe they're put into larger ports, making the impulse greater, or maybe they're put into smaller ports, making the impulse smaller...
This is the best damn explaination that I've ever had regarding the two drugs.
Why am I talking about this? Well the party on Saturday was free booze with cover.. as well as free pot.. Did I know this when I bought the ticket? nope. Infact, I was pretty stunned when "The Doktor", the dude throwing the party, was walking around with an elegant metal cigarette container filled with pot... I had talked to the ppl I went with (Davonna, Alicia, Brian, Crystal, Beth) and they knew that I would willingly try it if offered... It's true, I would.. And I did! It was my first time inhaling anything... If you dont count living in the same house for 21 years with two essential chain smokers.. I guess over time I have developed quite an iron lung...
Anyway. My experience? I dont think I felt a damn thing. With all I had, which wasn't much by any means.. maybe 1 joint total.. But I say one joint when it was really like half... It was his own special blend of 50% pot, some tabacco so it stays in your system longer, and lavender for taste and scent.. someone tried to tell me it was laced with crystal meth, but they were full of it.. But anyway, If anything, it just counteracted the alcohol and seemingly made me more composed.
There ya go, blog world.. I thought long and hard about writing the truth about what happened at that party.. but it was done all in the name of a good time and so I thought... meh.. no harm, no foul right? I still stand by what I said up there ^^^... and that is no, I'm not turning this into any sort of lifestyle.. Hell, I dont have the money to do stuff like that! (I wouldn't even if I did..) But would I try it again? I think I would, without the alcohol.... because I really dont think my curiousity has been satisfied... I still wanna know what being high feels like, without confusing the feeling with being drunk.
Anyway... think what you will, blogworld... but then again, I'm sure you've all made decisions that wouldn't make mama happy if she knew about it...
until next time.......
*fade to black*
:: Eldorado ::
Tuesday, March 16, 2004 ::
3:12:00 AM
