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One of my sisters "had to" get married. She has 2 kids and occasionally goes out with us and she definitely parties hard...as far as what she wears that really isn't relevant. And she isn't trying to recapture her lost youth, she partied in her youth too...she happens to have an immense amount of garbage to put up with at home. If she wants to get shit-faced once in a while, that's cool with me.

Maybe if you live in a closed-minded provincial smalltown atmosphere, you can't do that, but I do not (thank God). I mean no one is going to come up to her kids on the playground and say "OMG Hayley, your mom was doing tequila shots last night!"

You can't go out after a day of work like you did in college....but I would wager that 18 year olds who work in a factory or on a farm all day feel themselves fading pretty early too.

I turned 22 on Friday, so we went out Thursday night to celebrate. I HATED it, because I looked around the bar and I SWEAR I was one of 3 people in there not using a fake ID. People keep saying you're as young as you feel, but is it too bad for me to want to go out with people my own age?! I mean, on my 22nd birthday I shouldn't feel OLD because I'm the OLDEST in the bar!

I think it depends on where life takes you. If life calls for going to bed early, then do it-- if you can handle staying out all night--have fun doing it!!
I will be 30 at the end of the month, I have a 5yr and a 3yr old.
Just about every Friday night I go out with the girls. We don't leave until around 10 or 11--after the kids are asleep and we don't get home until around 5AM. Week before last was our earlies night in awhile and we got home at 2. My husband goes out with the gus on Saturday nights, I think they got home around 5 this morning.
As far as going to bed early--same thing, whatever works for you. I generally go to bed around midnight and get up at 630 on the weekdays. Sunday nights I often go to bed around 1 or 2 (friends are usually over). My husband thinks I go to bed very early--he usually goes to bed about 2 hours after I do. He requires very little sleep.
But I also listen to my body and know when I need to be home taking it easy.

When I was 19/20 I could stay out to 6 or 7 in the morning. Now at the age of 26 it's hard to stay up much past midnight or 1am. I find working all week makes me especially tired. Once in a blue moon I may still party until 4 or 5am, but I just can't do it all the time like I used.

I'm 24 ...I still go out... not as often... and I've never been what anyone would consider "hardcore".... as I have places to be in the morning.. but I say party as long and as much as your other responsibilities ( and health/body) allow you to.

Generally, I dont party during the week as I need my brain during the day (i dotn get paid to stand around and wait for customers/clients to come in, I have to be proactive and think and solve problems) Cant do that with a hangover or if I am really tired. But during the weekend ro holidays isht.... I am a phucking rockstar. can and will stay out till 4-5 am. Dont every weekend, but maybe 2 or 3 times a month, but usually go out at least once a weekend. And for those of you not in the know, I am turned 30 in January.

I plan to party till I get married, or knock a gal up. lol.

BTW, I one time said I'd slow down at 30. Once I hit 29 I redefined slow down to mean 40.

I'd rather only live to be 50 and have had a phucking blast than to live to be 90 and be miserable.

you'll know. when sleep starts to become important and having the money in your wallet, it might be time to tone it down a bit. the body will only let you take it so far.

<------ can personally attest to 33girl's partying ways :D

When did 2AM become late?

Chicago pisses me off because there are very few places really open late - specially on Fridays.

When Twilo was open in NYC, my friends and I had no problem leaving late - 9 AM once. Go to any European country and things are boring until about 11 or 12.

-Rudey

No shit! Even getting food late used to be a problem...although now there are places like TBK and McDonalds that are open way late.
But I totally agree...and that's why I wind up at Blu a lot, I think they're open till around 4.

Wait a minute!! Even if you were sleeping around, that's none of their business either. You have very nosy co-workers.

The party hat can come off when you want it too. Don't worry about being what you are supposed to be. Make yourself happy. Besides, you must be in a very stiff environment if people think you should settle down at 23. 23 is YOUNG!!! At 35, when you have children, then you can start going out only once a week. You probably will be tired from chasing after the rugrats. Of course, at 50 when they are out of the house, you can start living it up again. :D

I'm about to turn 25.... and I'm probably what you would call "settled down" (long out of school, full-time job, almost married, etc).

I still LOVE to go out and party, but it's just not feasible anymore. By the time it gets to be 11 or 12 on a weeknight (Friday, too)... I've been up for almost 18 hours and I'm just too tired to do much but be a lump on a couch.

If I didn't have to work, I'd probably be out every night. Unfortunately, I don't think coming into work half asleep and hung over would keep me my job very long :)

At the same time, I guess I do look down on some of my "less settled friends". I don't mean to, but when they're in their late 20s drinking a 12 pack every night, working at the Stop N' Go for 6 bucks an hour, and then complaining about how much their life sucks, I want to shake them and say "then get your head out of the bottle do something about it".

Within the past two years I've calmed down a lot. My drinking nights went from 6 nights a week to 2 or 3 nights a week. And the way I drink has changed dramatically as well. Before, I used to kill with 2 of my roomates an entire bottle of 100 proof smirnoff before we'd go out. Now, I had 10 shots of patron tequila friday night and now my glands are all swollen in my throat and I still feel like shit on monday. I don't think it has anything to do with people "wanting" to settle down. I think it has more to do with your body telling you that you can't do the shit you once did. In my case it's probably BECAUSE of all the shit I did. One thing I've noticed is that mostly the people who were never really party animals when they were younger, say 16-22, are usually the ones who you see partying it up when they're 24, 25, 26 and all the way till they're in their 30's. From my observations, the people that did shit in high school up until their mid 20's, and did it crazy party style.....shit just gets old and you dont feel like doing it anymore. I say keep it up until you don't feel like it anymore.

I think there's a big difference between people who are past the age of 23 and still go out and party, and people with no ambition or goals.

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that's all right. I get Carded as well. :cool:

when I'm in the mood, i can party all night as long as I want. being a bachelor does has it's advantages. :)