A new year, once more

[pphaneuf]

Very awesome party yesterday and this "morning", thanks to bohemianpsyche and denizsarikaya.

I'm a bit tired and in this weird state of "I'm bored, but I don't feel like doing much". Turns out I'll need to upgrade my system a little bit so that the remote control I bought yesterday works. I would like to have this working today, that'd be cool.

But my friend Christian came to the rescue! My cellphone died during the night, so I plugged it in when getting to my place and I had a message from him asking if I wanted to have a drink or something.

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[denizsarikaya.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. :)

Hope the rest of your day was enjoyable.

[pphaneuf.livejournal.com]

I managed to have much fun catching up with my old friend (of 11 years!). It's funny, in the almost 10 months of catching up, turns out he's gone poly. Heh.

I think what tainted my day a bit was some pondering of my pants dropping of yesterday. I've said it before, I wouldn't do something if I thought it could seriously annoy people, but I also like shaking the tree and see how people react or not. With the crowd there was yesterday, I don't think anyone could have possibly been seriously offended, but bohemianpsyche seemed to be deadly serious about this, which I found extremely odd.

But as per my life policy, I did not have a convincing "why" to not do it and was pretty neutral about it (maybe with a slight bias for being festive times). Telling me to do (or not do) something without a "why" I can relate to is a sure-fire way to slant me the opposite way. I've had it through and through getting told to do or not do stuff because "it's the way it is" or such bullshit (you know what I mean: "you shouldn't love more than one person, that's not the way it should be").

Sorry, I'm venting a little here. :-) But I'm serious about my freedom. It's a lot of responsibility (what if I was wrong and bohemianpsyche had a good reason? she should have told me, but I caused the damage already), and I have to deal with this reflection afterward, but my freedom and happiness is worth that much to me.

[blacksquiggles.livejournal.com]

*confused* a boy in his shorts isn't so bad...I was at a party once where a guy pulled out his penis and slapped a girl across the face with it..

now that was bordering on offensive

[thebabynancy.livejournal.com]

*laughs*

Still there were a couple of people who do not particularly relish the time when people's pants start coming off... and he was warned that that was the case... thus I had to follow through with my warning...

[thebabynancy.livejournal.com]

I did have a good reason. And even if I didn't it was requested that no one be dropping their pants... Shorts, would have been a different story. But you dropped your laundry in a common area... and revealed your boxers. Having went to the washroom and changed into shorts, would have been a different story. Personal freedoms or happiness, notwithstanding... when your freedoms/happiness infringe on the freedoms/happiness of others... you don't know if they do or don't - you assume they didn't - you wanna push the envelope... you could have polled the party-goers!

Can we save the pants dropping for your parties maybe? A place where you are likely certain no one will mind in the least. That would be great.

[pphaneuf.livejournal.com]

Yowser! Well, no, that's past my limits, thankfully!

[pphaneuf.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, there was a misunderstanding. When you warned me, I thought you were kidding, and I even agreed to your threat of not getting my pants back until the next year! I went back in my head and just about everyone there either had already experienced me sans pants and seemed unscathed, or those who did not, I knew they would be okay, but now that you mention it, I think I know exactly who you mean.

I'm a bit disappointed by the lack of telling me precisely ("there could be *someone* who *could* be offended", that's a common risk in my line of business! "there *is* someone who *will* be offended", that's quite clearer!), but I understand and will be careful about this in the future.

My apologies to the offendees.

[thebabynancy.livejournal.com]

I kinda thought that telling you that person A and person B may have an issue, was a bit inconsiderate on my part... I thought that putting it in general terms was enough... and likely because I am not serious about most things... even when I appear to be... was cause for you not to have taken me seriously... or challenge me... just to see what would happen.

I am still not going to tell you who would have been offended, simply because that's not fair to them.

I would appreciate it that unless we are having a "Pantless Party" here... that you keep oyur pants on. Had it been a Nitiot party... then it wouldn't have mattered. Really. Parties at your place... one assumes that given your pantless tendencies that... at any time during the course of the party, your pants will come off.

It really doesn't matter so much now... New Year, and all.


*hugs*


:) Nancy

[pphaneuf.livejournal.com]

We've got a setup that should work now. :-)

Happy New Year! *hugs back*