My first time at a lesbian bar

virgos and shitty vodka cranberries

Do you remember the character Galleria from the cheetah girls? She was the always on her shit one? Slight stick up her ass, gave extreme virgo energy? Yep, that's me. I can't remember one time in my life from my childhood till now that I haven’t been such a stick up my ass. My partner says otherwise, but it's true, and that’s okay. Here is to the people that have serious control issues within the friend group!! I would even describe myself as Janet from mean girls, or Jacqueline from the real housewives of new jersey. My simple reasoning behind this theory is that I grew up as that bitch that always followed the rules. I unfortunately was not the christian who said I wasn't sinning and sinned. On the contrary, I did not get the memo so I lived 23 years on this planet never breaking the rules. That was until my life changed with one phone call. I’ll save that story for another post.

Since I was a stick up my ass I didn't drink until I turned 23. There are so many reasons why a person decides to not drink,and all of them are valid.  Mine was because I thought all sin was a slippery slope. You drink once you turn into an alcoholic.Hopefully you can see where i'm going with here. You can only imagine my sister and I in a random beach house airbnb looking at the unopened rosé bottle and thinking “will this be the beginning of the end?”. Slight spoiler it was not. We barely finished it and realized we like mimosas more. 

Flash forward to present day. My partner and I walked to the cubbyhole bar in Greenwich village the other day and surprisingly, I drank one shitty vodka cranberry. Not kidding, it was so bad my partner who is allergic to red dye had a reaction when we got home. We laughed a lot and screamed over the band MUNA’s “Stay away” to hear our new found friends laugh about their stories at this bar. I had the time of my life, and enjoyed every new second of it.

Moral of the story is being new to something whether it's a gay bar or learning to let go can actually turn out okay.

disclaimer: No virgos were harmed in the making of this blog post.