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Balance
It’s okay to decline social invitations for events you don’t want to attend. The most important factor is deciding how you feel about attending … try to find the balance that works for you.
You’re not obligated to make it to every party, every christening or bar mitzvah, every wedding or graduation, every everything.
Other’s people guilt can only affect you if you let it. If they’re upset that you didn’t make their quilting/cosmetics/candle/cookware party, let ‘em be mad. That’s their problem; don’t make it yours.
I like saying no sometimes, even when the reason is so that I can simply stay at home with my boys.
That’s me, taking care of me.
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Actually, the most important Factor is David. BWAHAHAHAhahahahalalaala. ha.
http://thesmackfactor.com/2008/03/25/865/
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Didn’t you hear? Person X’s Tupperware party is not just the most important event of the year; it’s the only important event of the year. Person X’s Tupperware party should override all other social obligations, work, appointments, jury duty, funerals (even if it’s your own, it’s no excuse), family gatherings, and vacations. The only thing that rivals Person X’s importance is the Sun. And even that is a stretch.
I hate when people are so insecure in their relationship with me that, if I decline their invitation, our years’ worth of friendship suddenly comes crumbling down, like a Jenga at their Survivor Finale Party I decided not to go to.
That said, I’m giving a poetry reading in Los Angeles in June. Be there or you’re dead to me.