Sagittarius party

[altivo]

Today was the day of this annual event, which took place in Elgin. I'm afraid I can't say much about it though, because it was too well-attended. As the years pass, I become less and less tolerant of crowds and noise. My mate prepared two kinds of bread and a delicious curry-flavored pumpkin soup, and off we went. The crowd kept arriving and arriving. By the time food was served, I was too stressed by the noise and crowd to really want to do anything but crawl off into a closet and hide. My problem, I know, I've always had it in varying degree.

I stuck it out and then we came home. Now to bed, to sleep I hope.

Comments

Well your not allone pony:)

[bladehorse.livejournal.com]

I still have trouble wif crowds, and my last post proves it ;p
I think its a horse thing. I just hope you didnt hate the event for it, cause that suucks when one wants to enjoy.. Nuzz

Re: Well your not allone pony:)

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Hate, no. But I didn't particularly enjoy it and was glad to go home. Being squeezed into a smallish space with a lot of strangers and having to be sociable is always a strain for me. Noise, though, is a killer. I have never tolerated that well, and since moving out of the city I've become even more sensitive to it.

Fortunately the hosts didn't see any need for loud music on top of everything else. It was just the conversational level that was too intense for me.

[zenicurean.livejournal.com]

Ouch, I can sympathise with that. Crowds and noise are the bane of existence. For some reason, I can tolerate crowds on the street, in shops, in public spaces, etc. just fine, but become very stressed with spontaneous social gatherings. I figure it's the noise and the hassle. Maybe if it was just, say, forty people standing about in relative silence, it'd be a-okay.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Being hemmed in and unable to move is my greatest fear. Always has been.

This annual event has been held now among our friends for well over 20 years. It used to be fairly small and intimate, on the size range of perhaps ten people. The last two or three have been closer to what seems like forty to me, which would be nothing in a large ballroom but in a private home or apartment it's too much for me to handle.

[cabcat.livejournal.com]

Most equines I know don't like huge crowds and things, it makes them uneasy.
I'm kind of the opposite, walking in wide open spaces gives me the heebie jeebies. I prefer rainforests, forests and things like that, grassy plains scare me.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Hmm, so we know you aren't a lion or a cheetah, eh?

Forests and plains are both ok with me, but don't ask me to go into a cave or burrow. ;p Perhaps you're right and it is just an equine trait.

[doug-taron.livejournal.com]

Well, even the host found it a bit much this year. Where did all those people come from? Most were R's invites. I feel like I didn't get to do much visiting with the people that I really wanted to (including you and G). Ah well...I wish things would have been more conducive to interaction in general. I think that you guys would have liked the couple from Boone County that own the ecological restoration business.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

I almost didn't post this, knowing that you'd probably see it. But then I thought you'd already picked up on my mood so I went ahead. Yes, it was way too much and I well realized where it all came from. Actually, that was our experience the last time we had it at our house, and also that was why we have declined to host it again, though we say that we are really just too far out from the city.

You did a masterful job of keeping it all together, actually. I'm sorry I missed the mole turkey, but I was too stressed to eat much. Gary tried to press desserts on me until I pointed out that every one of them was chocolate, and he said "Oh, yeah, they are." We can expect a much quieter time on the 30th, if you come out then. :)