Yeah, I'm still alive... barely ;)
No, don't worry. Nothing serious - I just suffered the worst hang-over in the history of [recent] times yesterday. That's why you didn't get any "Funday Sunday" from me.
Let me give you a break-down of yesterday's events... Woke up at around noon with a mean headache, feeling like I've been run over by - not one truck, but a whole caravan of trucks. Crawled out of bed and sat down in front of the computer looking for something to post for "Funday Sunday"... Nothing was funny - not even remotely funny.
Popped a movie into the DVD and crashed into the couch meaning to watch the film. Lasted for all of 30 minutes before I realized I could not enjoy the movie at all. Stopped the DVD and crawled back into bed and tossed and turned, massaging my head - pretty sure it was going to explode soon enough.
Now, I'm not one to take any form of pills the day after, but yesterday I pulled myself back out of bed, popped a couple of aspirin, and slipped back under the covers. 45 minutes later I fell back into blissful sleep. Woke up again at 8:30PM, after which I proceeded to crash out in that couch again finishing the movie I'd started... Silent Hill, by the way - which I had yet to see. Good enough, but I'd expected more from it... or maybe I couldn't fully appreciate it in my current state.
Flipped some channels after that, and then went to sleep around 1AM again.
How does that sound for an exciting Sunday?
I'm not much of a drinker... I rarely drink, but Saturday night I downed about 15 beers - which is twice as much as I'd normally do when I drink... Never again! (Ever heard that one before?)
Anyway... that'll teach me to have some "Funday Sunday" post prepared before I go out on some Saturday shenanigans again.
The Ireland trip is up in the balance at the moment. Seems the two single ladies who we were going to travel with are a little... uhm... unflexible. I really didn't like the way the trip was scheduled. It would consist mostly of riding a bus through Europe, meaning we'd only get about three days in Ireland. So, me and my friend suggested we book a flight, and spend 7 days in Ireland, with a rental car so we could go around checking out some of the beautiful sights. End result was a much cheaper alternative which offered more quality time.
The ladies were not happy, it turns out. They actually looked forward to the bus rides. Ok... we're still discussing the matter - but it's now more likely me and him put something else together. We'll see what happens.
Still a little under the weather today - so I'll leave you all with another song on my playlist. Another Finnish based band for you that you may or may not have heard of. They're called Stratovarius and make some really good music. Couldn't find my favorite song "Infinity" on that playlist thing (irritating... so many songs I've thought of posting can't be found on that thing - does anyone know if you can add your own mp3's to that thing somehow?). Anyway - I decided on "Destiny", which is another one of those rather long songs in which a lot "goes on". I love the intro... gives me goosbumps. As with all music I listen to:
Crank it up!
March 17, 2008
Still Hung Over Ramblings
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Wow, well I'm glad you're better today. I've never experienced a hangover of such intensity (in fact, the "hangovers" I HAVE experienced have been so mild that I'm not entirely convinced I HAVE had one), so I don't know what you were feeling like, but I'm glad you're back!
And, to answer the comment you made ine reply to me on the last post - yeah, you could totally commandeer the URL address and put all the archives over there - why not? :) (It's all up to you and how much time and effort you're willing to put into it - if you don't want to mess with it, don't mess with it - the current system is fine.)
Em
~kiss on the forehead for your hangover~
sorry. hope you're better.
were you having fun before the hangover? I sure hope so!
if the 2 Ireland ladies are already unflexible that's a cautionary sign although I see their point as well - perhaps they feel more comfortable in a bus full of people rather than a car with someone they don't know.
If you do decide to go, your way, I'm sure you'll have no trouble meeting ladies on your own ;)
as an Irish lass myself I'd be very attracted to a smart, articulate guy.
Happy St. Patty's Day - have green tea!
this is NOT me trying to add up comment counts, this is me feeling really ignorant at using "unflexible" rather than "inflexible"
my inner Brooklyn scares me sometimes
feel free to delete this once you acknowledge I'm not illiterate ;)
15 beers!
well today is St. Patty's Day... dontcha want to do it all over again?
15 beers? Holy moly. Sounds like you had one of my nights! Well, glad you lived through it at least!
Silent Hill was filmed in my small Canadian Town.
Nothing that comes out of here is as good as you expect.
Sorry man.
I was wondering about you...whew! Have "I" had one of those doozies of a hang over. Then I'll get real smart and always remember that "I'll pay for it if I have too much fun." That holds me a few years (approx. 7 yrs or so) and then, I'll "forget" and hang myself over again. Phew!
The bright side of yours is that you don't have small children. I have accidentally done this to myself "one" and only one time with the children to be home with me -- THAT, was a lesson well learned.
I hope you were singing! Dancin! Hoppin' around your place havin' your own party with yourself!
Those are fun! I love to have one of those on a rare occassion. Kids sleepin, hubby out and I have the whole house to myself!
All the times I've said "Never Again" and I still don't learn. I don't think I've ever had a beer hangover like that but when you mix a few shots in there... ouch! I hate feeling my pulse in my temples.
I have always been the sort of person who doesn't get a hang over. I can have 10 cocktails and 5 shots in a night, act like a complete and utter fool and be ready to do it again as soon as I wake up.
This fact has caused much more pain in my life than any hangover could. I don't have that trigger that says "I should stop now so I can function in the morning". So I end getting drunker than I would like way too often.
Silent hill?!? I played that game and it was quite scary, but I believe the movie is horrible
Mornings like that require aspirin. Although they're few and far between now (thank God!), back in the day I had a whole system for recovery. Glad you're feeling up to snuff again.
You may have to get in a little more drinking practice for Ireland!
Happy Paddys Day!
Hey You! I am coming by to say my goodbyes.... I will be by when I have the time. I have to post something due to ning 365 but other than that I am going to groove... Have a great week.
Hon, I am sorry that you had a hangover!! I wish I was there to pamper you, like you needed..
Toodles and smooches
Ne.
I didn't used to have hangovers when I was young. But, now that I'm officially old I'm finding it harder to avoid them. 15 beers would definitely result in some pretty serious hangover action.
15 beers! No wonder you were knocked out. I hope that your body is recuperating from the trauma. ;-)
I suppose I can see why the two ladies would want to go on a bus tour... but you can only see limited sights from the highway. Isn't it better to spend as much time as possible on foot, exploring things that you can touch, taste, and smell? If they're just going to sit on a bus, they may as well sit home and watch a video of the scenery going by.
Emmeline: You're lucky. Suffering the kind of hang over I did yesterday really makes you wish The Day Before never happened... no matter how much fun it was ;)
Naughty Lakota: Thanks. Much better now!
Dianne (x2): Yeah, the night (what I can remember) was a lot of fun ;)
I still don't see why they would prefer riding a bus about half the time... but ok - it's their choice. Both me and my friend have pretty much decided we don't want to spend that kind of money to have our butts glued to the seat of a bus... we'd rather be out experiencing the country.
BTW. I'm at fault for the word unflexible... looking back that's how I wrote it ;)
Jahooni: Hell No! I'm not ready to do that all over again... not yet! ;)
Pookie Sixx: Yeah, it's been a while since I had one of those nights... October last year is the only one I can recall at that company party we held. Thankfully I didn't suffer the same hang over after that one though...
Mike: You live in a scary little town then, Mike. Yeah, after having played the computer game, scared out of my mind, I really expected the movie to deliver more.
Farmer's Wife: If I'd had any small children they would have had to fend for themselves yesterday... guess it's a good thing I don't have small children, huh? ;)
Knight: Yeah, I never learn... how many times have I said "Never Again"?
I didn't just feel my pulse in my temples... it was pounding through my entire body!
Karen: I envy you. As I get older, the hang overs are getting worse. Pretty soon I'll have a hang over if I smell the cap of a beer bottle the night before.
Joel: The movie was good... just not great, like I had hoped. The game was much better... and scarier!
Melissa: Yesterday marks the first time in years that I took aspirin to cure a hang over... I usually refuse to treat myself with that. Yesterday, however, my head would have exploded without them.
Casdok: Yeah, the drinking part of my Irish heritage seems to have failed me... how will I ever live up to the Irish rep?
Single In The City: I'm going to miss you babe!
And, go easy on the alcohol, ok? You don't wanna end up spending Spring Break feeling like I did yesterday!
Jay: I hear you. Back in the "good ol' days" one could drink 15 beers and still get up and go to school the next day. So not the case anymore...
...why does age deprive us of everything that's fun? ;)
Sparkling Red: Yeah, I'm sticking to a maximum of eight for the foreseeable future ;)
You're right about the Ireland thing. That's what had me hesitant about the whole thing. I want to be out there experiencing the smells, tastes and scenery instead of looking at it through the windows of a smelly bus...
YIKES! A hangover of the 48 hour kind ... never a good thing ...
What's even worse is as you get older, it takes less and less to take you to that proverbial dark side. Just when you think you can safely drink eight, you'll find out that it only takes seven. Just thought I should give you fair warning ... not that *I* have any experience with that ...
Bleh - I hate hangovers. I've had some bad ones, but it's been a while. I hope I didn't piss you off or hurt your feelings on Friday - I just really like you, and I really want to see you happy and enjoying life. :) Everything I say comes from that place - even if it sounds bossy.
checking out the beautiful sights?
talking about the ladies right?
: )
Dana: So that's why the former "usual" number of 15 nearly killed me this time ;)
Yeah, I've noticed age doesn't do you any favors in the drinking department - one would think you'd be more used to it, and as such more tolerant...
Fiwa: Oh, don't worry about anything. It's always nice when you people care about me... you don't always have to agree or approve.
Jay Cam: The hills, the valleys, the peaks, the curves...
...yes - the ladies! Of course!
Hahahaha. I don't think I'd call it "luck" so much as . . . responsible drinking! No offense. :)
Em
Emmeline: Oh, so now I'm irresponsible! ;)
Yeah... sometimes... I know ;)
jumping in for my goodnight kiss before you disappears.
~smooch~
Feel better!!!
Man, I so wish I could go to Ireland! It is on my list. :)
Happy St. Patrick's Day!
Guess what, my PFC is written, and it's two days early!! I'm so proud of myself. I guess it's probably only one day early by your time, but whatever. I will have to watch Sweden time carefully because I'm going out of town on the 19th, and I want to be sure my PFC gets posted early!
Em
Hey, It's me so you know what's coming up next. As Judge Dredd often said "Prepare to be judged!"
I hoped that we'd all get to read about how you spent the weekend talking to cute girls. Instead you did a lot of drinking and feeling sick.
Let's put your drinking into perspective.
Assuming a portion of 375 ml per serving you consumed 5,625 ml of beer. That's a whopping 5.6 liters! The human stomach when fully distended can only hold 4 liters of fluid. Even your so called "normal" amount of eight beers is equal to 3 liters. Drinking 3 liters of water in one sitting would be tough to do.
That kind of drinking does not sound like fun. The two days following the drinking don't sound like fun either. Even consuming your "normal" amount of beer does not sound like fun.
Why did you decide to drink fifteen beers? There must be a reason why this happened. What was your emotional state when you did this? I can only guess it wasn't happy because happy people don't usually do this kind of thing.
That level of drinking is not just unwise or foolish but downright unhealthy. If you've got stuff you need to "take out" please take it out on the weights. Don't "take it out" on yourself. Your brain is not a chemical punching bag.
If nothing was bothering you and you were just having fun - you need to find a new healthier way to have fun. As usual I'm holding you accountable for your behavior. Nothing new about that. So... What's the deal?
Oh my god, 15 beers?! You would have to pretty much scrape me off the floor...no wonder you had a bad hangover! Hope you're feeling better! :)
xo
Naughty Lakota: Well, I was already out... here's your belated nighty kiss.
*kiss*
Alli: I hope I do get to go. I've always wanted to go there myself.
Emmeline: Good. Looking forward to reading it. I'm right where I was last month... I didn't even start writing the piece.
Unsigned: Well, if you read carefully what I wrote, you would have noted that I said that I rarely drink at all. So, to assume that I have an "unhealthy" drinking habit is very much off the mark. I drink at the most once every two months... except during the summer when there seems to be more occasions to do so. And mostly I'll settle for around 5 beers. I don't drink hard liqour period...
Drinking 15 beers is not something I have done since my teens/early twenties really.
Why it happened on Saturday is simple. I wasn't keeping count, and I was having a good time. So I certainly wasn't drinking out of depression or anything.
BTW. Living in Sweden you would understand it better... Swedes are world famous for copious drinking, and I had Swedish company over.
Freakazojd: Thanks. Much better today. That Sunday, however, is not something I'll be looking to repeat in the near future ;)
I get a buzz off one, and the room is spinning after 2 - I'm such a cheap date. I don't think if I tried I could tackle 15.
You need to get your hands on some prickly pear cactus pills.
http://mentalhealth.about.com/od/chemicaldependency/a/cactus604.htm
Newt: Oh, that's nice - so I could afford to take you on a date even now that I'm without a job ;)
Tink: Interesting. I actually have some prickly pear cactus juice at home... I should try that next time I'm hung over.
A bath and some Ritz crackers, that was what help me fell better after an hangover. With some salted fries!
The never again usualy work for 2 weeks!
And Silent Hill, was good, but when I first saw it, I had higher expectation too!
Wow, that sounds like a pretty heavy hangover. Poor you :(
They *like* the bus part of the journey? Eh?!
Have you considered blogging drunk? Just to see what happens? It might be fun.
Jill: I don't think there is any cure in the world, save sleeping it off, that can ward off the kind of hangover I was suffering ;)
Guilty Secret: It was bad... I tell you - It was bad!
And, well, I don't know the girls - never met either one of them in my life... but that's what he told me - they enjoyed the part about the bus... some people, huh?
Cardiogirl: I've considered it... but I'm afraid I would scare off half of my readers at the very least if I did... but - one never knows ;)
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