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[wook77]

Went out with friends last night around eight pm.

Around midnight, they brought me home "for my own good" as I was really really trolleyed.

I learned a few things from the experience -

1.) Drinks taste better when you aren't buying them for yourself.
2.) I've still got my tolerance even though I don't really drink anymore.
3.) I can't type for shit when I'm drunk.
4.) Your friends that you love, *glares at fiona_fawkes especially, will mock you for the lack of typing skills.
5.) Mahjongg is really really hard to play (and harder to type) but you will beat it for the only time EVAH and celebrate this win by dancing around your bedroom naked and giggling.
6.) Waking up in the morning to go take care of the dogs you're being paid to care for is actually suprisingly easy.
7.) Being from good Irish and German stock - I do not get hungover (wook FTW!!!)
8.) Steve Irwin really is dead and it's still sad even when you're not drunk.

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[fiona-fawkes.livejournal.com]

*pouts and makes innocent-like faces back at you*

I love you, wook.

[wook77.livejournal.com]

I lnve you twoo.

[yodels.livejournal.com]

I can't tell you how sorry I am to have missed you.

*kicks stupid time zones*

[wook77.livejournal.com]

:) It was entertaining from what I understand.

Everything made complete and total sense to me at the time and I kept thinking, what don't they understand?!

Then I sobered up and realised that I was pissed out of my skull.

[silentauror.livejournal.com]

7) Yes!!!! Irish/Germans WIN the tolerance game! :D :D :D (I'm half Irish, one quarter German and one quarter English. I could have my very own, internal war. :D)

[wook77.livejournal.com]

I'm half PA Dutch (err, german), a quarter german and a quarter irish. Mixed within all that are bibs and bobs of all kinds of other heritages but those are the main ones.

[silentauror.livejournal.com]

Cool. :D I'm only a second-generation Canadian, so my lines are all pretty unmixed - my grandparents are all Europeans who moved here just before having children, so both my parents were born here. My dad is half English and half German, and my mother is fully Irish. She was adopted by Germans, though, so I grew up with a lot of German cultural influence. Her adoptive parents knew her biological parents, though, so we know quite a bit about the clan, etc, and I've been to the part of Ireland that they're from. Le cool. :)

[wook77.livejournal.com]

I'm third generation on the one side... my mum's dad is first generation, his parents came over on the boat from austro-hungary/germany (literally their kitchen was in Austro-Hungaria and their bedroom on the other end of the house was in Germany but they claimed Germany). My dad is full Pennsylvania Dutch but I just say German since that's really what stock they're from.

My mum's mum is mainly Irish with little bits all tossed in there. My mum is doing this geneology thing and has found all kinds of way cool information. We've traced back before Revolutionary War for part of the family. Actually, we've traced back to around New Amsterdam instead of New York in the US for one chain of the family. It's all way cool stuffs.

[silentauror.livejournal.com]

That is really cool. :) I love the bit about the house! I guess with shifting borders and everything, things like that happen, but it's always so crazy! :P

My mom's people have pretty much always lived exactly where they still live, in County Galway, for centuries and centuries. They were already there when the city (Galway) was built in the 1100's. It's apparently known for being the most "Irish" part of Ireland, where people still speak Gaelic/Irish and apparently my clan (the Kellys) are known for being, and I quote: "stubborn and argumentative, even for the Irish". :P

I know more of my adoptive German relatives (who are Mennonite, so very much like the PA Dutch, really! -> the Mennos around here did the whole Switzerland->Germany->Ukraine/Russian route before coming over, but they're primarily German (my branch, at least). They're still just my adoptive relatives, but whatever. I've stayed with some of them in Germany and it's been fun. :)

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it was a bit weird there but works, at least for the house. They never really learned English.

My family is more from the Ulster area, I think. We've the Nearys and the Boyds from Ireland. We've MacDougal from Scotland as well in there somewhere.

Actually, Mennonite is a bit like the Amish. The PA Dutch are fairly different.

[silentauror.livejournal.com]

The Mennonites that went through Russia and the Ukraine are completely removed from the branch that went through Switzerland and the Netherlands, actually - ethinically speaking, they're far more closely related to the PA Dutch. Theologically/religiously/whatever else, the Swiss Mennonites are closer to the Amish, but the R/U (German) sort aren't at all related. I'm just speaking ethnically, not culturally or anything. I went to private Mennonite schools my whole life and had more of the history shoved down my throat than I ever wanted, given that it's not my own ethnic history. :P

Ulster! Cool. I was very close to there! :)