It's that time of the year again when talks are in the works for a Christmas/New Year's Office Party. I know we're talking about one, but not until after the hectic holiday season. Of course, office parties are unique things because they often pair two things that don't usually go together: booze and coworkers.
Luckily, Men's Health Magazine offers up some tips for surviving this year's office party:
Peril #2: Stupidity due to excessive ingestion of alcoholic beverages
Okay, so you're at a party, and it's a big one, and all the booze is free, and it's not all that easy to get to the food, so you keep on drinking and drinking and slamming folks on the back, and pretty soon you're an inebriated fool.
Now, there are a lot of places and times in the world where it's okay to be an inebriated fool, but let me make one thing really clear: It's not okay to be a blithering idiot at an office party, even though it is Christmastime and your coworkers have their clown noses on. The holidays are not an excuse for raving, throwing up on somebody's $450 shoes, singing, or wearing lamp shades or togas.
Your strategy: My personal experience is that by the time you realize you shouldn't have had that last drink, you've already gone two beyond it. I have wrecked myself more than once by simply adding one last tumbler of gin, scotch, or vodka -- straight up -- during the last third of the party. So start slowly and make sure there's something nonalcoholic in each beverage. You may like your Stoli straight from the bottle, but you're going to be drinking every day for a whole month, basically, so the goal is to maintain a nice slow burn. This means vodka comes with soda, gin with tonic, scotch with water.
Beer and wine are fine on their own, of course, but if you lose track of how many you've had, stop. Have an Evian and a pig in a blanket. And remember: You're at these parties to make friends, have a good time, be part of the fabric of the corporate culture. You're not there to slam an enormous bag on and get laid. That's why you have a best friend and an ex-girlfriend, respectively. [READ THE FULL STORY]
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Treeball are a musical collective based in Helsinki Finland, since 2000. The band consists of one Englishman, one American & 3 native Finns.
UK born Nick Triani moved to Finland in 1998, following the demise of former UK based band Supermodel (Fire Records, Columbia USA). Initially working in Finland as an in-demand producer (acts Triani has produced include: Mummypowder, Giant Robot, Sister Flo, Apulanta, The Rollstons, Astrid Swan, Manboy, Montevideo), Triani hooked up with Janne Lehtinen, lead singer/songwriter with Mummypowder. The two of them started demoing Trianis songs, meanwhile trying to find likeminded souls to play with. Aleksi Mnttri (Krispies, Jonna Tervomaa, Mummypowder) was recruited on Bass, Ville (Come Inside) keyboards, Astrid Swan (keyboards, guitars & vocals) with Lehtinen taking drumming duties alongside Triani on vocals and guitar.
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