That's how hoedowns go down

Two of my housemates are going skiing tomorrow, and I said they could take my video camera to record their mad skills on the slopes. I got it out of the cupboard and decided to have a look at all the old footage we took from back in the day. We found one tape of the holiday we took to Rach's caravan down in Devon a couple of years ago. Very amusing stuff. I never realised the extent of our idiocy until we watched over an hour of footage of us not giving a fuck.

There is about half an hour of us driving down there acting like complete teenage morons. We are drinking and smoking the whole way, trying to race against people who don't know we are trying to race them and squirting people with the windscreen wipers. Then we get down to the caravan, and the "film" progresses to the drinking game we invented whilst down there. It involves drink offs, dance offs, rock-paper-scissors and drawing Tupac-esque gangster tattoos on Farrar's back whilst disgustingly drunk.

Whilst it made me realise how immature we were, it also got me thinking. I have started to take life far to seriously. I don't make jokes about back aids, crack or pushing little girls off swings anymore. What I thought would never happen appears to have happened; I have grown up. I turned to my house mate and simultaneously we turned to each other and asked the one of the most horrible questions you could ever ask yourself: "when did we get boring?"

It's not that I want to go back to being an idiot the whole time or even that I think we are boring, but watching back the video I saw a part of myself that has slowly died over the past couple of years. Finishing Uni and finding a job has given me responsibilty and security, but it has also locked away apart of me that I promised myself I would never lose. It made me look at myself and realise that whilst I am completely content with the me that pays coucil tax and electricity bills, I want to get a bit of the old Tom back before I lose him for good and end up being some bitter and cynical chump who lives for the weekend and lets things bother him.

So, from now on you can all expect a lot more dark jokes, snide remarks, childish comments and general retardedness. Basically I'm going to stop giving so much of a crap about what you think of me and if you don't like it then, in the wise words of a guy I used to know; "That's how hoedowns go down!" Peace.