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Blazinghand
United States25557 Posts
The Ladder, Beautiful Women, and Sleep
I've gradually been making a few changes to my routine. Nothing life-changing immediately, but a few little things that I think will help. At times in my life I've found myself looking at things I've done and wishing I'd done them differently. I don't mean this in some sort of depressing crappy sort of way, but more like a "I could have done better" sort of way. Examining what I do with my free time presently, I decided I didn't want to look back on this time of my life and feel like I've missed an opportunity-- so I've decided to do a little optimization of my free time. These changes to what I do should make me a happier better person, and I think looking back on this time of my life I'll be happier as well.
The first thing I've decided to do is to spend more time laddering. Yeah you were probably thinking "oh Blazinghand is gonna start studying more or learning French or something" well what you didn't realize was how WRONG YOU ARE because I said I'm optimizing my FREE TIME not turning it into LAME TIME alright? I'm gonna optimize the shit out of having fun, and laddering is some of the most fun shit I can do on my computer. "but wait Blazinghand I'm a whiny blog commenter and I'm gonna rate you 3 stars like a little bitch" goddamnit man you need to man up! Squadron TD is fun but you know what's more fulfilling and fun? "no what is it" here I'll tell you: It's the rush of adrenaline that comes from listening to sweet music and punking DT rushers. It's the exhilarating feeling of fighting foe after foe on the ladder and winning or losing. That shit is cash. It's money in the BANK. Fuck yeah. So I'm laddering and streaming, and finally feel alive again. I've really missed this part of Starcraft, this part of my life. I mean, I always laddered a LITTLE-- I wanted to maintain my skills and stuff-- but I haven't done like more than an hour or so of laddering per week since last summer (which was also the last time I significantly improved, and got into Master League) and I miss it. Or rather, missed it. I guess for me Laddering is more of a "high energy" activity, more akin to playing football than something relaxing like reading a book. It's easy be tired and not want to ladder, but I find it more invigorating than draining. It's good to be back.
The other thing I'm doing is trying to fuck bone meet mad babes. "well it's not that easy bro" yeah I know it's not that easy you can stop talking back to me now "but aren't you writing this blog, including these questions?" shut up shut up shut up. ok so this is like a multi phase plan I've got in place. "fuck more bitches" is like step 5 or something and really it's better translated as "meet more beautiful ladies and maybe get a gf" but let me explain steps 1 through 4 for you first so that you're not gonna complain about it. - Step 1 is going to the gym again. Basically the business model of a gym works like this: about 10% of the members (ballers) attend regularly and use equipment. If only these members held memberships, the gym would go out of business. However, about 90% of the members (rubes) have a gym membership and never actually go, but never cancel their membership cause that would mean admitting that they failed at being a baller. They subsidize the ballers. So Step 1 is for me to stop being a rube and become a baller and get hella cut.
- Step 2 is not eating any more nasty bullshit (including soda). I'm a lazy ass and love eating disgusting food so I know I'm not cutting back on delicious shit or like "not eating sandwiches" or some bullshit like that but it won't be too hard to like not eat ice cream, or to drink a goddamn diet coke instead of a regular coke. Shit I just lost like 5 pounds just by thinking about not eating ice cream.
- Step 3 is going out and talking to all them babes. They say a woman likes a confident man so I'm gonna
tell her I'm in Master League er uh Tell her i have 5k posts on TL no wait hold on ok I'm gonna just talk to her like a normal person and see if we share interests and then ask her out on some mad sweet dates like going to the bayshore wildlife preserve and seeing some sweet ospreys or some shit
- Step 4 is there is no Step 4 cause I didn't plan it out but I think it's all good from here.
The last thing I'm doing is getting more sleep. "but blazinghand why is that a goal couldn't you just go to bed earli-" SHUT UP IMAGINARY QUESTION ASKER DUDER GUY ok so the basics is that I'm a shitty insomniac. Not one of those legit insomniacs who's like "oh I legitimately have difficulty sleeping, I lie down and try to sleep and I can't" cause those guys, it's tough, they can't choose to sleep more. No, you know who I am? I'm the guy who's like "hey it's midnight huh? well, I'm kinda sleepy but instead of sleeping I'm gonna stay up and reread a webcomic I've already read from the first strip cause that's a totally reasonable use of my time right?" and then the next day I'm like "fuck I only got 4 hours of sleep last night fuck shit dick" and then by the time it's evening again I've forgotten how shitty things are and decide to stay up late again. Basically, I'm sleep-deprived by choice. I feel it affecting certain aspects of my life (including my ability to talk to babes and crush noobs) so the plan is to go to bed by midnight whenever possible. Obviously if I have shit to do, I have shit to do, but no more dicking around when I should be sleeping. Sleeping feels good.
So yeah that's what's new with me. Fucking bitches, owning noobs, and getting sleep. "oh I was expecting some sort of transcendental message of closing thought for this blog, you know, the kind that leaves you with a good feeli-" FUCK YOU MAN, FUCK YOU.
 
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Nice. I think goals 1 and 2 might negatively impact each other though.
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Blazinghand
United States25557 Posts
On April 20 2012 03:52 mynameisgreat11 wrote:
Nice. I think goals 1 and 2 might negatively impact each other though.
If a babe can't accept a man that likes to play starcraft for an hour a day instead of watching football she can go take a goddamn hike.
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gg no re 
And good for you 
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Decent plan on the weightloss, but to actually stick to it I would recommend choosing specific items to cut instead of saying "i'm gonna eat healthy now" so its more realistic and you can hold yourself accountable easier.
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Came looking for beautiful women. Was disappointed in the lack of pictures.
Seriously, I understand what you're up to, and good luck - if you work on things, they could happen.
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Damn, I'm the exact same way when it comes to sleep. I stay up til around 1 am every night, although I have to wake up at 6:30 for school. I always go "oh just one more page on reddit", or "maybe once this streamer finishes this next game", or "maybe after the next song" and then I don't turn off my laptop until 1 am or more. I love sleep, and I hate not getting enough of it but it's just so tempting to be on the computer lol.
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How much do you know about diets and working out? It's not really as easy as "going to the gym" and "eating healthy" (whatever that means, healthy is an extremely loose term) if you want good results.
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You know whats funny, is that starting today I decided to make some changes myself. Although not to screw a bunch o women (Im married) but heres my new directive:
1 - No more drinking. At all.
2 - In bed by 10 PM
3 - Workout 20 minutes everyday
4 - Less time playing video games, more time with family
Since Ive been unemployed (about 3 weeks now), I havent gone to bed earlier than 1:30AM and have been drinking a lot every night. I also havent excercised since my baby was born about 3.5 months ago. Kinda in a slump, but starting today thats all changing. Just poured out all my alcohol in my sink, drinking water, just worked out for 20 minutes and gonna go to bed at a reasonable time and get up early.
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Sounds like how I want to change myself. After next week, once my final exam is done, I have four months of nothing. Might as try this out as well, although the second one might be tough, for me anyways.
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I agree with the first two for sure : ) however fck sleep, you can do that when your dead lol
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GL bro we know you can do it. I'm an "insomniac" like that myself, that habit fucking hard to kick 
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Fucken shit mutha fuck, I was slamming this cute as shit bitch ass baber then when she chomped my dick I lost sick marines to this fucken cheese-ass trick slut, but I washed dat shit down w/ some protein and was like "fuq" and got sick cut. Then I slept more, fuck.
The one question you failed to answer was, "Why?" for any of this. A "happier better person" is so vague and subjective. I bet that if you truly sat down and thought about each of your points (ladder, girls, sleep) and asked why each of those are significant, they'd probably all have their own specific reasons and don't have much to do with being happier or better.
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On April 20 2012 04:18 Snaiil wrote:
How much do you know about diets and working out? It's not really as easy as "going to the gym" and "eating healthy" (whatever that means, healthy is an extremely loose term) if you want good results.
Actually it's pretty easy. Eat meat with greens and veggies 3 times a day with snacks between meals. Avoid bread, wheat. Only drink water. Squats and deadlifts. ???. Fuck mad bitches.
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Hahah funny stuff. Gave it a 3/5. J/k
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I like ur bit about gym! Lately I've been also trying to stop being rube and be a baller.
Also, big yes, fuck a LOT of women!
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Blazinghand
United States25557 Posts
On April 20 2012 05:01 Quesadilla wrote:
The one question you failed to answer was, "Why?" for any of this. A "happier better person" is so vague and subjective. I bet that if you truly sat down and thought about each of your points (ladder, girls, sleep) and asked why each of those are significant, they'd probably all have their own specific reasons and don't have much to do with being happier or better.
1) Laddering is fun. I like laddering. I'm just a lazy ass and don't do it enough.
2) Having a girlfriend is fun. I like having a girlfriend. I'm just a lazy ass and don't do it enough.
3) Sleeping is the shit. I like not being sleep-deprived. I'm just a moron and don't do it enough.
All these things I'm doing because they're fun.
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You said the word "hella" in your blog. Are you also from northern California? :D
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Blazinghand
United States25557 Posts
On April 20 2012 06:08 Octothorpe wrote:
You said the word "hella" in your blog. Are you also from northern California? :D
Gasp! My accent is apparent, even in my writing!
Yes, I am.
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"hella" is a NorCal thing?
Why am I seeing all these NorCal guys all of a sudden on TL? Where have you guys been all this time???
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On April 20 2012 04:18 Snaiil wrote:
How much do you know about diets and working out? It's not really as easy as "going to the gym" and "eating healthy" (whatever that means, healthy is an extremely loose term) if you want good results.
I disagree. Burn more calories than you eat --> lose weight. Anyone with a basic grasp of arithmetic can pull it off.
Now if you're actually gonna eat healthy in the sense of balancing out your chemical intake so it matches your demand, that's different. But you can lose weight without being healthy in that sense, and I think since Blazinghand's only motivation for losing weight is fucking mad bitches, he should be good with the simple math problem.
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United States5162 Posts
On April 20 2012 06:11 DyEnasTy wrote:
"hella" is a NorCal thing?
Why am I seeing all these NorCal guys all of a sudden on TL? Where have you guys been all this time???
Anytime I hear/see the word 'hella' I'm instantly reminded of Cartman.
http://www.myspace.com/video/lena-g/hella-southpark/5106814
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Nice blog but I gave 1 star because you sound way too sure of yourself.
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On April 20 2012 03:47 Blazinghand wrote:
Step 3 is going out and talking to all them babes. They say a woman likes a confident man so I'm gonna tell her I'm in Master League er uh Tell her i have 5k posts on TL no wait hold on ok I'm gonna just talk to her like a normal person and see if we share interests and then ask her out on some mad sweet dates like going to the bayshore wildlife preserve and seeing some sweet ospreys or some shit
I LOL'ed 5 stars for a good chuckle. Good luck getting up on that horse broseph
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Hey Blazinghand, I've decided you're awesome.
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Giving up soda is very NOT manly bro. Just sayin. That's something little girls do because they don't look like a Kardashian or some shit.
Everything else +1
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On April 20 2012 06:17 UmiNotsuki wrote:Show nested quote +On April 20 2012 04:18 Snaiil wrote:
How much do you know about diets and working out? It's not really as easy as "going to the gym" and "eating healthy" (whatever that means, healthy is an extremely loose term) if you want good results. I disagree. Burn more calories than you eat --> lose weight. Anyone with a basic grasp of arithmetic can pull it off. Now if you're actually gonna eat healthy in the sense of balancing out your chemical intake so it matches your demand, that's different. But you can lose weight without being healthy in that sense, and I think since Blazinghand's only motivation for losing weight is fucking mad bitches, he should be good with the simple math problem.
I understood like he wanted to get in good physical shape, since he mentioned going to the gym as such a big deal. Just losing weight isn't rocket science as you say, just eat below your maintenance calorie level. But if that was his only goal, going to the gym wouldn't be as necessary, or even necessary at all. Losing weight is almost entirely diet dependent unless you're going to spend a copious amount of time on the treadmill.
Getting in good physical shape by lifting weights and eating right is however a bit more difficult than just "eating healthy" and "going to the gym". You should get a good program, learn the different lifts you're going to be using, learn about what to eat and how much of everything as well as what effect it has on you. For example you need to know how much protein you need per day, and then how you can get that from your food, while still keeping it clean and adjusting the total calories to your daily caloric goal.
Even these things aren't very hard, but I see too many people overlook these small things and lose motivation due to not seeing results from just going to the gym using various machines 3 times a week and cutting soda + fast food from their diet.
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On April 20 2012 06:11 DyEnasTy wrote:
"hella" is a NorCal thing?
Why am I seeing all these NorCal guys all of a sudden on TL? Where have you guys been all this time???
we've been here hella long.
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On April 20 2012 08:03 Snaiil wrote:Show nested quote +On April 20 2012 06:17 UmiNotsuki wrote:On April 20 2012 04:18 Snaiil wrote:
How much do you know about diets and working out? It's not really as easy as "going to the gym" and "eating healthy" (whatever that means, healthy is an extremely loose term) if you want good results. I disagree. Burn more calories than you eat --> lose weight. Anyone with a basic grasp of arithmetic can pull it off. Now if you're actually gonna eat healthy in the sense of balancing out your chemical intake so it matches your demand, that's different. But you can lose weight without being healthy in that sense, and I think since Blazinghand's only motivation for losing weight is fucking mad bitches, he should be good with the simple math problem. I understood like he wanted to get in good physical shape, since he mentioned going to the gym as such a big deal. Just losing weight isn't rocket science as you say, just eat below your maintenance calorie level. But if that was his only goal, going to the gym wouldn't be as necessary, or even necessary at all. Losing weight is almost entirely diet dependent unless you're going to spend a copious amount of time on the treadmill. Getting in good physical shape by lifting weights and eating right is however a bit more difficult than just "eating healthy" and "going to the gym". You should get a good program, learn the different lifts you're going to be using, learn about what to eat and how much of everything as well as what effect it has on you. For example you need to know how much protein you need per day, and then how you can get that from your food, while still keeping it clean and adjusting the total calories to your daily caloric goal. Even these things aren't very hard, but I see too many people overlook these small things and lose motivation due to not seeing results from just going to the gym using various machines 3 times a week and cutting soda + fast food from their diet.
I agree with this. Simply losing weight from dieting is way different than going to the gym to gain muscle. You could go to the gym 5 days a week for months and months and still see barely any results simply because you are not approaching it properly with protein/carb/fat/calorie intakes and a proper workout program etc etc. However if all the OP wants to do is lose extra weight and doesn't care about adding alot of muscle, then sure I agree its a simple arithmetic problem
Either way GL on achieving everything, especially more starcr....err mad bitches!
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if you start working out regularly you will actually become physically tired by midnight and activelly WANT to go to bed rather than reading that web cominc.
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Best of luck with this!
It takes a lot of dedication to really stick through with a self-improvement plan. Just stay focused on the goal and you'll be able to reach it. :D
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all of this connects... hmm... when I grow 3 years older I'll do this. Until then, more web comics and BW!!! 5/5
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On April 20 2012 04:34 DyEnasTy wrote:
You know whats funny, is that starting today I decided to make some changes myself. Although not to screw a bunch o women (Im married) but heres my new directive:
1 - No more drinking. At all.
2 - In bed by 10 PM
3 - Workout 20 minutes everyday
4 - Less time playing video games, more time with family
Since Ive been unemployed (about 3 weeks now), I havent gone to bed earlier than 1:30AM and have been drinking a lot every night. I also havent excercised since my baby was born about 3.5 months ago. Kinda in a slump, but starting today thats all changing. Just poured out all my alcohol in my sink, drinking water, just worked out for 20 minutes and gonna go to bed at a reasonable time and get up early.
Maybe its the stupid college boy in me, BUT MAN YOU SHOULD OF GIVEN THAT STUFF AWAY. I have never realized how good i had it when i drank at home with my brother (whos much older and of legal age) i was drinking good beers/liquor come to college and everything is shit. So assuming you have some decent brand names as you are a married man i am a little sad at this waste. Hell you could of probably sold it to some bums for all their begging money but yea im not contributing to society at all am i.
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Jeez blazinghand, you are a badass motherfucker O.o
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On April 20 2012 11:52 DreamChaser wrote:Show nested quote +On April 20 2012 04:34 DyEnasTy wrote:
You know whats funny, is that starting today I decided to make some changes myself. Although not to screw a bunch o women (Im married) but heres my new directive:
1 - No more drinking. At all.
2 - In bed by 10 PM
3 - Workout 20 minutes everyday
4 - Less time playing video games, more time with family
Since Ive been unemployed (about 3 weeks now), I havent gone to bed earlier than 1:30AM and have been drinking a lot every night. I also havent excercised since my baby was born about 3.5 months ago. Kinda in a slump, but starting today thats all changing. Just poured out all my alcohol in my sink, drinking water, just worked out for 20 minutes and gonna go to bed at a reasonable time and get up early. Maybe its the stupid college boy in me, BUT MAN YOU SHOULD OF GIVEN THAT STUFF AWAY. I have never realized how good i had it when i drank at home with my brother (whos much older and of legal age) i was drinking good beers/liquor come to college and everything is shit. So assuming you have some decent brand names as you are a married man i am a little sad at this waste. Hell you could of probably sold it to some bums for all their begging money but yea im not contributing to society at all am i.
Lol I live in the country, there arent many "bums" to give my alcohol too. And I felt better dumping it down the sink. It was like a personal victory. And im too broke to go buy more 
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So uh, how's that whole getting more sleep thing going?
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5/5 would read again.
Nothing is going to quite top your screen shot blog with the tabs though.
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Sleep is good. I always try to get at least 6 hours of sleep. I suggest limiting your caffeine intake to help you fall asleep.
Good luck on your other ventures too.
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5/5 for talking with an imaginary asking questions dude
oh and this
On April 20 2012 04:04 felisconcolori wrote:
Came looking for beautiful women. Was disappointed in the lack of pictures.
Seriously, I understand what you're up to, and good luck - if you work on things, they could happen.
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Just discovered this Blog, fucking awesome. Hopefully it's gone well Blazing, become the me I wish I was.
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On April 20 2012 06:09 Blazinghand wrote:Show nested quote +On April 20 2012 06:08 Octothorpe wrote:
You said the word "hella" in your blog. Are you also from northern California? :D Gasp! My accent is apparent, even in my writing! Yes, I am.
Sad thing is, I've started hearing this in SoCal as well.
I've been using it since 96 though because of my BW 2's partner. Damn him!
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I too will follow in thy footsteps Blazinghand, except instead of laddering im going to f bitc.... Diablo 3 who am I kidding.
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NICE BLOG! LOL
How about an update on the babe situation?
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Blazinghand
United States25557 Posts
On May 19 2012 07:08 joeschmo wrote:
NICE BLOG! LOL
How about an update on the babe situation?
0 babes
0 babes so far
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On May 19 2012 07:22 Blazinghand wrote:Show nested quote +On May 19 2012 07:08 joeschmo wrote:
NICE BLOG! LOL
How about an update on the babe situation?
0 babes0 babes so far
You know, oddly enough, I hadn't had much luck with quality women up until recently.
My (now) girlfriend was actually attracted the real, extremely nerdy me.
I decided that I wasn't going to hide what a have a passion for (e-sports, computers/everything nerdy) and her (and other people who are my now friends) respected me for just being myself.
Have you tried being nerdy to women yet? Worked for me man.
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Maybe I should write my own girl blog but right now I just want to use this story as a reply to the idea that having Sex or making out with a lot of girls is desirable and will have a positive effect on your state of mind.
Wednesday I went to a party which I had been looking forward to for a couple of weeks. I met a lot of friends there who I don't see very often because they moved to other cities to study. We started drinking on the train and I was pretty drunk when we got there. Of course I didn't stop drinking there and eventually it lead to me being way too drunk. I made a bit of nice conversation in the process though. It was not that I started acting stupid (depends on definition I guess) but I lost too much control for my taste. My memory is a bit blurry I just started to talk to a lot of different people about random stuff and passed out in betweent to regain energy or something like that. Some time later I started making out with a girl after I had talked to her and her friends earlier. I didn't know her before but I decided that she was cute and pretty and apparently she was into me. I don't know how long it lasted but when she left it was already starting to get late.
When she left I went back to making conversation and sat down on the couch and started talking to a girl who I know for a long time and who I find cute for a long time but feel like that she is not really into me so I am fine with being close friends at least that's what I would like to think. It's not always that easy, though. Somebody took her place on the couch so she sat on my lap for quite some time and I made her a lot of compliments and we were kind of touchy but more in a friendship kind of way I guess. It was getting really late and people had already started leaving. The group of people I came with had thought about taking an early train because we could have used the same ticket twice but everyone felt too tired and probably a bit too waisted. So I eventually passed out on that couch.
The next day I didn't get to think about all this a lot even though I felt a bit confused emotionally. I woke up early because I shared the couch with two girls who didn't leave me much space. A friend of mine who planned to come a long with us to visit us over the weekend shared the same fate and we started curing our hangover with sunlight and soft drinks on the balcony. It had a pretty nice view and we started to get a festival feeling so we started drinking again. We took the train some hours later and my roommate and our guest spent the rest of the day playing age of empire 2 while drinking some hot spiced whine.
The next day I woke up very early and couldn't sleep anymore. And while my hangover was very nasty as to be expected I felt like an emotional train wreck. The pictures of me making out with that girl were haunting me. I didn't realize why immediately. At first it felt like shame but there was nothing to be ashamed about, was there? I made out with a pretty girl so why do I feel so bad. Maybe because I was very drunk? No one of my friends really gives a shit. We have all had our fair share of bad experiences with alcohol and I didn't harm anyone so at best I would have to bare some jokes. There was no reason to be ashamed and that's when i came to realize it was because of what happened afterwards.
Talking to the girl I know and like for a long time and her being being very accepting about me making a shit ton of compliments while her sitting on my lap. It was almost as if she was glad for me that I made out with another pretty girl. So she didn't feel the urgency to set some boundaries because it was all friendship between us. Suddenly it all felt totally wrong and madly twisted.
We spent the day in a similar fashion playing age of empires and Risk but didn't drink anymore alcohol. We prepared some nice food. And my other room mate arrived at home to join us in the evening. So I did my best to get some distraction. It felt like distracting myself was impossible but I couldn't bare to keep thinking about it. In the evening I started to feel worse and worse. When we went to bed and there was no more chance to find some more distraction and sadly none of my friends were online to talk to them about it. I started reading girl blogs on teamliquid and luckily I was so tired that I fell to sleep a lot earlier than I expected.
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