Oh Brickhouse...I just can't quit you!

Earlier tonight I started writing a post about how I was making a change and spending the Friday night in, by myself, curled up with my laptop and Lost dvd's. I had left over pasta for my dinner and was just about to change into some sweat pants for a night of lounging. I feel like I've been on the go for the past few months without any down time to myself and this week I have really noticed it. They laughed at me all through work and between each class asked me if I had made plans or responded to text messages I was getting. I very confidently told them that I was not going out, nor was I drinking, this weekend is all about me. They laughed at me and I muttered how I would show them. I got about two minutes into an episode of Lost when my phone started ringing. It was my friend, Kevin, who said he was having a rough day and even though I didn't want to go out or drink would I watch a movie with him. The selfish part of me screamed no, but the considerate part of me who knows how much he has listened to me whine in the past, told me to throw back on my real clothes and walk, in the rain, to his place.

I got to his place and we chatted for a bit and then he said he wanted to go to The Brickhouse. I said okay but I was not going to drink. By the time we arrived it had changed to how we would stay for one drink just to say we had done something. When we arrived Chris and Ron were playing poker. Kevin and I sat in a corner of a bar in an attempt to do some people watching. Five minutes later a group of people that we know walked in and all of a sudden we were front and centre in the bar. Chris and Ron's poker game ended shortly after that and when I heard Ron ask if anybody was in for a second game my eyes lit up like a Christmas tree. I was in!

I ditched (er...left) Kevin with the other group and put on my game face. It was also trivia night at Brickhouse and those involved in the poker game asked if I was interested in being part of their trivia name, I then became the newest team member of, 'Poke-her'...fantastic... so not only did my plans of not going out, not drinking, and not gambling go out the window, but I was gambling on two games simultaneously. Oh Korea... I didn't win poker, though I stayed in quite long and many of the girls in the bar were quite happy to see a girl representing, and my team didn't win trivia.

I didn't get the alone time that I had been hoping for, but it was kinda nice to be out with a different set of people for a change, mix up the routine a little. Sometimes when you are with the same people all the time it is harder to mix and mingle because you are pigeon holed into that one group, tonight was a nice change of scenary and conversation.

Tomorrow I am heading to Seoul alone. I am just going to wander, maybe invest in a hair cut and try not to lose my wallet. I am sure I will have one or two random tales to tell tomorrow...

Happy Friday!