The Importance of Girls Night

From week to week, my mind has all sorts of crazy thoughts.  I mean, we're talking like - "I want to move to a small village and work at the corner store" to buying a house around the corner, get knocked up and turn into a bonafide adult.  I sometimes blurt things out loud, to which bf looks and me politely and nods (while eye rolling.  what a multi talented guy he is).  He humours my crazy ideas and tangents, but in reality he is just trying to get me to focus on the task at hand. Aka be quiet and watch what's on TV.

Enter Girls Night.

This is the place where you can open a bottle of wine (or 12) and go into detail about every one of your so-called irrational thoughts, and get your life sorted out.  There can be just you and one other gf, or you and 20 gf's.  Regardless of the quantity, you know there will be no judgement (unless your friends are bitches). No idea will be too crazy.  Oh! And the best part, is if it IS too crazy, they will flat out tell you.  No humouring or sugar coating the fact.  You can let your rolls hang out, and your hair be greasy and it doesn't matter in the slightest. What matters is sorting through your thoughts of the day/week/minutes and restoring some sense of order to your life.

When I explain that moving to a small village and selling milk at the corner store is the ONLY way I want to spend the rest of my life - my gf's are there to remind me that I can't function without a shopping mall, a serious closeness to 7-11 nachos and an ability to go dancing in packed night clubs.
When I talk about getting pregnant and buying a house, I am reminded that I am not married, thus leading into the inevitable "are you happy" conversation where you can rationally decide whether your love life is heading in the right direction.  For the guys out there, just a note to you: It never ends.  Not even when your married - never. Girls are sounding boards for other girls since the dawn of time.

If the night ends with your gf's and you waking up the next day asking "How did the night end?"  - then you know it was done right.  Your brain will be relaxed, your thoughts will be filed and stored for the next rendez-vous and you will most likely be sleeping for many hours to follow.  Girls night is not only mandatory, but it's also how I get through tough times.

I'm off to another one tonight, and by the time bf gets back from his trip to Europe he's going to think I spent the entire time in therapy...

I guess I kinda did.