This was at the reception to my sister’s wedding and I know I made a fool of myself last night. I have already apologized (as best I could without writing a book)

Anyways, I drank some wine and saw a girl I had known since high school who is the daughter of my mother’s friend and asked her to dance. We danced a bit, sat down, talked, some harmless intimate touching etc. and it was lots of fun. We had dated briefly in high school and I hadn’t seen her for 4 years. When it came time to close down the reception area, I suggested to her to go out to a karaoke bar with me. My parents made my brother drive us around and a cousin from out of town (who I hadn’t seen in 6 years) and one of my sister’s best friends (again, haven’t seen in 6 years) followed us in another car.

I started getting irritated when I noticed my brother taking the extremely long route to get to the bar. We live in a small city that takes a maximum of 15 minutes from one corner of the city to the next. When I looked at the clock, I realized we had been driving around for 30 minutes. I started getting mad at him and telling him I’ll never let him drive me around anywhere ever again even if I’ve had a few drinks. Finally, we get to the bar (45 minutes from the starting time) and we start walking up to the entrance when I realized that my wallet had gone missing. There’s no way to get into a bar without some ID, so this irritates me even more.

I suggested we all go back to my house to drink and be stupid because I had alcohol there, but they decided to drive us to another bar. My cousin tried to let me use his ID, but the person checking ID wouldn’t let me use it. By now I’m very mad and have had too much time to think about all the problems in my life, so I storm out of the entrance from the bar and head back towards the country club where my car is (about 6 miles away at this point).

Then the next 45 minutes involved them trying to get me into the car, but I kept telling them to leave me alone, I need time to think. They kept at it until my cousin said, "Come on, we can’t have fun without you, you’re not like this." For whatever reason, this finally set me off and I exploded yelling at him and my sister’s best friend about how I haven’t seen them in 6 years and what the f— do they know, we’re not THAT close, etc. Finally, they gave up and drove off.

When I say all the problems in my life, I mean this:

-I have a B.A. in Biology, but decided to go after the money in the oil business instead of pursuing a career
-I don’t have any passions at all. Used to play tennis, stay in shape, etc., but not anymore. Tennis is dull to me and I don’t care about fitness at all
-I got certified as a personal trainer, but couldn’t hold a job as one
-I got fired from my most recent job because I broke two of their equipments (reduced to mowing lawns instead of the legal work I used to do)
-The house I bought and live in right now used to cost me way below my means, but now I can hardly afford to pay the bills
-I have, at most, about 6 months worth of money left in savings and think about finances all the time
-Nothing looks or sounds humorous anymore
-I really don’t care about other people or myself at all, and haven’t since age 15 or so (I’m 24 years old now)
-I used to pray, but have recently come to the conclusion that God is a very sadistic god that will not hesitate to take other people’s lives if it means strengthening the faith of just one of His followers (read the book of Job and tell me how it can be justified to destroy a whole family all at once to prove to another spiritual being that one man has a strong faith)
-I tried to get into several post-grad schools including a local radiology / sonography school, but got denied by all 7
-My short term memory is almost all gone (no drugs) and I’ve found I have to write notes in order to remember anything anymore
-I drink alcohol maybe once every 2 months, mostly because I don’t have any friends and get too anxious/shy when at a bar by myself
-I know something must be wrong with me because I hear what other people and articles written by professionals proclaim to be what a "normal" person is supposed to be, but I am on the anti-social side and really don’t feel guilty except for saying nasty things to my cousin and sister’s best friend that didn’t deserve it at all
-I honestly don’t know what love is, nor caring about another person/animal/object ; my own parents could die tomorrow and I might be a little sad, but not devastated (they are honest, hard-working people who I have nothing bad to say about)
-I didn’t even care that my sister got married and I don’t really see the point in getting married myself, nor anything having to do with relationships.
-I don’t fear dying alone nor dying in general. If it were up to me, I would lay down my life if I found a cause I believed in, but suicide is out of the question. What little pride in myself I have left

Looking to get it for my parents as an anniversary gift, however, I am anything but a wine connoisseur and there seem to be a lot of wine club websites that are shady. They drink both red and white wines. What are some reputable clubs? What do I need to know when choosing the right club for them?

Newly 21, I am looking to give my parents each a unique gift this Christmas. For my father, I’d like to get him a subscription for a ‘beer of the month’ type deal. For my mother I’m looking for the same thing, except wine.

Money isn’t too much of an obstacle (within reason, I’m a working college student)

Anyone have any recommendations?

I plan to move to New York City in the next year. I am a 23 year old American female and will be graduating university with a International Relations/Poly Sci degree. I am pretty worldly, have traveled all around the world with my family and friends and went to an international high school overseas in the Middle East.

I love going to nice restaurants, trendy clubs, I love the South Beach lifestyle. Most of my friends are international. I dont drink beer, and love wine and cocktails. I am open minded and love meeting new interesting people. My parents and family are well off, but not super rich like many of the friends I went to school with.

I dont know if any of this sounds pretentious, but its truly how I am, and my preferences. What area of New York City would suit me to live and I would meet people similar to me.Or atleast an area where I can walk to nice trendy restaurants and shops and have a good time with friends who love to do the same things

my sister is turning 13 and wants to have a birthday club party. I want to make fake shots, wine, beer but no alchol the parents will be mad =)

I belong to a wine club and I live in Oklahoma. It’s hot here now and my most recent delivery, one bottle you can see the cork starting to bulge out (even so it hasn’t broken through the foil) and the other bottle, there’s a little "syrup" around the foil at the top of the cork. Are these wines now bad? I just wanted to take them to my parents for a really really casual dinner; but I’m wondering if I should bring back up wines, too? Thanks a million! Cindy PS Both wines are reds, Italian, Valpolicella.

What is the best wine of the month club? My parents love wine and we want to give them a gift membership. Any feedback would be great. Thanks.

I am a 19 year old aspiring sommelier. Unfortunately, I no longer live in the parents’ house, and as such my access to decent wines to improve my skills and knowledge has become somewhat limited. If you purchase wine online and have it delivered, are you carded at any point? I can’t imagine they can sell without confirmation, but I’m daring to dream…