I went over to my cousin’s place last night for a nice relaxing evening of burgers and poker. Casey and Michael were having other company over as well, but I got there about an hour before anyone else and helped a little to get things ready. Once everyone arrived we set out the food and poured a few drinks for everyone. Michael and I decided that if we were gonna drink, we were gonna do it up right, so we pulled out the big gun right from the start – Bacardi 151. I’ve had a few casual drinks with friends over the past year, but it’s been a long time since I last got drunk. I sure can’t say that anymore.
Michael and I started off the evening with one shot each, quickly chasing it with orange juice. For those of you innocents who have yet to experience the acid burn that is Bacardi 151 flowing down your throat, I highly recommend you do so. It tastes awful, but it definitely keeps a party alive since you don’t have to consume as much to get tipsy/drunk, depending on your goal for the evening. Shortly after we’d taken our shot each everyone started drinking beer and Smirnoff winecoolers, but I decided to have some more 151. I poured myself two shots and downed them, once again chasing with orange juice to attempt to avoid the burn, but as always it didn’t work.
Shortly after that, I took two more shots and knew then that I was definitely beyond tipsy. I was drunkenly text messaging friends not really aware of what we were talking about or even who I was talking to at some times. At some point during the evening all the guys took off their shirts and the girls took off theirs as well to replace them with bikini tops. Let me assure you that I did not participate.
After my five shots of 151, I consumed two Smirnoff drinks and an Amaretto Sour. Suffice it to say – I was long gone by then. I had a lot of fun joking and laughing with everyone, but ended up crashing on the couch before the poker game even started. Michael came and checked on me a few times to make sure I was alright, getting me a blanket and thanking me over and over for coming to have fun. As drunk as I was, I was still very much aware that Michael was too. He helped me up when I thought I’d be sick, but I managed to contain myself and then went back to sleep for an hour or so.
When I woke up everyone else had gotten drunk as well and I hung out for a little while to make sure I was awake and sober, capable of driving home. Once I was satisfied with my state of awareness, I drove home and only slept for about 6 hours before having to get up for a a couple hours of work this morning. And…no hangover! I’ve only had one once, and it’s definitely not an experience I intend to allow to happen again.
I tend to make these occasions few and far between since I don’t want to make a habit of drinking excessively. But there’s something to be said about being able to completely forget my crappy job, non-existent love life, and everything else that I stress about every day. But even though life isn’t too great at the moment, I refuse to live life in a numb state of drunkenness. I want to be aware and awake as life comes at me. I highly recommend that decision to others as well.
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yeah, dean, You deffinitely dont know who you were talking too last night when you were drunk and texting me.
I knew I was talking to you…most of the time. It’s Jayme’s fault for confusing me!
There are many ways/products to get drunk, Everclear is 190 proof and I would never drink it in a shot but did drink it in a great punch made from citrus fruit pulp. (Note: I have not drank and alcoholic beverage in over 22 years)
I am glad to hear that you slept it off before you drove, although I am not sure self evaluation is the best way to determine if you are sober.
Remember ‘Far better is he/she that dwells on the positive and happy than the negative and unhappy”. And I know you have much to be happy about and many positive things going on in your life and that you have a loving family and great friends.
I am sorry to hear you had to work on a weekend.
Yeah, I definitely have a lot good going in my life, but it’s also definitely human nature to see more of the negative than the positive. I’m working to change that in myself. As for my self evaluation, Casey also agreed I was good to go before I left (she was taking care of Michael at that point in the evening). And yes – working on a weekend was NOT fun.
I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. I just added you to my Google News Reader. Keep up the good work. Look forward to reading more from you in the future.
It was a ton of fun!!! I will comment that you were capable of driving but I would have preferred you stay here. However thank you for letting me know you made it home alright. Now we are trying to figure out what to do with the rest of the beer!!! HAHA
It was a blast for sure. I’m sure you’ll find something to do with all that beer. It’d probably be a good way to meet your neighbors! “Hey stranger, we have been in our place. Want some?” *stampede*
JAMES DEAN. This is what we call a CLOSET DRUNK where I come from young man. LOL @ Debauchery
haha…you were so far gone. You couldn’t tell that I was texting you and not Sarah. We had fun with that…confusing you and such. Oh..btw…I ran AVG and it found some stuff…but the popups are still occurring. So…a format may be necessary. Boo. What are you doing tomorrow evening?
Yeah I was, but it was your own fault for texting me about Sarah at the same time that Sarah was texting me herself. lol As for tomorrow night, I don’t believe I have any plans. Just make sure you have your Vaio backup discs and we can do a reformat. It’ll take a couple hours, but it’ll fix the problem for sure. Text me and we’ll plan it out.
You have blogged about 911, allergies, college cost/quality of teachers, dealing with stupid people and getting drunk. What has the most comments? What does that say about us? Does anyone care? Don’t answer that! This is only an automatic response from a mind that obviously needs to find more to do.
I use to drink like that all the time… don’t drink and dial! I can’t drink like that anymore, I always get really bad hangovers. I used to drink all night long, wake up the next day, have the hair of the dog and start all over again. That was fun but now I have to many resposibilities. It sucks being a responsible adult.
I know what you mean Amber. That’s one of the reasons it’s so few and far between for me. I have way too many things to be taking care of to be sitting around drinking all the time. Being a grown up is hard!
It is the hard things in life that have the greatest potential to mold us into the best we can be. When we accept the challenge and do the hard things, that is when we can reap the great reward of become a stronger, better, and smarter person. The best of all is that we become more capable at accepting and overcoming the next challenge. If you continue to do this you will become an asset to society.
You see the people that don’t want to grow up and become responsible are those that want the government to take care of them and they want to blame society and anyone else for their lot in life and all their problems, which they brought on themselves by not doing the hard things that life brought their way.