a few nights ago I got quite drunk with O. we were going to have a nightcap and hit the sack early, b/c we were both stressed out. and then as we were finishing that drink, my house guest adam walked in, and we poured another round. then more. then more. i think we did half a bottle of whiskey.
i haven’t drank like that in over a year for sure. i cut alcohol out once i started to get anxious pre-surgeries. and it just lost its appeal. since then it has hurt my mouth too much to drink, and wine has made me feel terrible, even when i have just a sip. but i have discovered that if i drink straight bourbon my mouth is numb within a couple of sips, and after that i can’t *feel* the burn.
so we slept late the next morning. we were going to head upstate early, but that didn’t happen. O rolled over and said “oh, i’m hungover” and i said “yeah me too” and sprung out of bed and said “but i feel like shit every morning, so i’m used to it!” I laughed, and old-man-shuffle-walked to the bathroom (like I do every morning), took my morning tylenol and advil. and made us breakfast.
O couldn’t get out of bed for an hour or so, she was so hungover. i, on the other hand, felt like it was just another day. same old same old.
i could choose to learn two lessons from this:
1. i really do feel really bad every day
2. i might as well drink every night
i’m not sure which is the better lesson
Haha, wait. Before I look too much like a lush, it should be said that neither of us drinks very often anymore, so we are both total lightweights. The house guest was somehow up & out the door at 5:30am… But this is why it was so amazing that you actually seemed *better* than you do some mornings. But I think I’m thinking of the mornings after you inject. They must be worse than whiskey hangovers!
At the risk of sounding like an alcohol during a brief period of my life- – I actually did drink once every night for about a month- this was during a time in my life I was going through similarly heavy shit and sort of self medicated myself for 30 days with about a half bottle of anything- everynight – yes it did help and yes I felt the same regardless of if I drank or not. . .
I have never drank that much before or after that said month- – but oddly I look back at it fondly and numbly.
Option 3) Superhero anti hangover powers, you has them
tis true, neither of us drink very much at all these days. total lightweights. O is correct.
I guess that this does unequivocally prove that the mornings after I inject are worse than a 1/4 bottle of whiskey hangover.