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Last night was Linda's going away party. She is one of the RN's I work with and is leaving our unit to become a PCC (patient care coordinator) on a psych floor at a hospital literally across the street from us lol. Same company. I'm happy for her, but I'll miss her, because she is one of my favorite dayshift RN's (there are only a few haha). Anyway, one our nursing assistants organized it for her at Stonehedge, which is a bowling alley. We went in the back at this large table to order food and talk. I loved how day shifters sat on one end of the table, Shannon & I were kind of in the middle (we primarily work evenings, 3-11) and then night shifters were at the other end lol. People talked about drama, which I tried to stay out of; then Danielle, Jessica, Steve, David (all RN's), Shannon & myself decided we were going to go play some pool.

But they didn't have any pool. So we just sat at the bar instead.

And they discovered my embarrassing trait - I turn BRIGHT red when I drink. Not just a "little" red, because I know a lot of people turn red. I turn obnoxiously red. and from very small amounts of alcohol, too. I'll have a few sips of whatever and I'll start to turn red. And you can indicate how much I've had by looking at my face! It starts at the top of my forehead and starts making it's way down lol.

I also get a little "puffy" too haha.

The reason why I turn so red is because I'm 50% Chinese, and Asian people lack an enzyme to properly digest the ETOH (or alcohol, if you will). My dad was the same way, my brother is the same way and all of my Asian friends are the same way. But no one is bad as me!

Anyway, I drank half of Danielle's Mongolian Motherfucker (her and Jessica are such enablers! Jessica kept passing her's off to me too lol). I don't know what it's in it because there are like 8 different liquors but it seriously tastes just like fruit punch.

We hung out at the bar for awhile then decided we were going to go bowling, but then we met up with the other day shifters and they decided they were all leaving, so we decided to go to a bar down in The Valley instead. The bar we went to reminded me of my favorite bar in Canton called Fiddlestix (though Fiddlestix is a lot cooler :)). It was all of us + Jessica's brother and sister decided to come out. We had a fun, fun time! I haven't had that much in awhile! I drank a Leinenkugel Berry Weiss (one of my favorite beers!), Jessica bought a round of cherry bombs (which were NASTY, tasted just like cherry Robitussen...ick! I couldn't finish all of it), then had two large amaretto sours. That is A LOT of alcohol for 5'2", 110lb, 1/2 Chinese tiny little me, but I lived haha. I rarely go out and drink anyways.

This is going to have to happen more often, though :)

Jessica & Danielle want to have a fake bachelorette party and hit up the bars in Cleveland (because you get free drinks) but I'll be back in Missouri during that time spending sweet, sweet time with the hubby :) I can't wait!