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the day after...
...My bank holiday weekend has consisted of cleaning the house, arguing with Mr McMuffin about lamb of all things and entertaining until about 4am. I actually had to give up before our guests did. Today were both a bit tired and only had the energy to go to the cinema, turning down an invitation to go for a drink in favour of a quiet night in in front of the TV. As there's nothing on that I can stomach watching, I'm here for the next half hour or so.
I don't think I've stayed up this late for almost a year and it gets harder and harder every year. The same goes for drinking, not only can I get drunk on two glasses of wine (but why stop there?) but I am completely wrecked the next day even if I don't have a hangover. Today, of course, I got my passport photos done. I'm carrying my luggage under my eyes in these ones and contemplating the difference a decade makes.
mr mcmuffin on 30 May 2004 @ 10:47 PM ✲ Permalink
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Would you go as far as being 'Ten Years Younger'-ed by that obnoxious South African woman and her team of rude stylists?
Posted by: Kirsty | 30 May 2004 23:13:48
Shocking, isn't it, the toll that the years take on our alcohol intake? Right now I'm sitting here, feeling like I should go out - it's a bank holiday Monday weekend in Denmark, too. I haven't been out at all this weekend, and living so centrally I can hear the whole of the rest of Copenhagen going out, so I feel like I should be doing the same. But I don't really feel like it, and I've made no plans with anyone (not that that's ever stopped me!).
As a compromise, I'm drinking the rest of the wine I bought for cooking. (I don't otherwise tend to have drink at home, as a general rule, as I prefer drinking in public, as if that somehow makes it all right!) I'm hoping that the wine will help me make up my mind - either I'll go out and feel good about going out, or I won't and I'll feel good about that, too. One way or another, a decision will be reached by the end of this glass! Or so I'm hoping... But I'm also acutely aware of how horrible tomorrow will be if I go out and have some beer.
Anyway, by tomorrow we'll know if I've done what is most probably 'right' for my age, and stayed in, or if I've fallen back into an old habit of thinking that I'm still young enough to be invincible... and that there just might be someone out there who I might be interested in. (In Copenhagen, more than anywhere else I know, there's a strong connection between single people going out, with a desire no longer to be single anymore, which sort of ruins the whole 'going out for a laugh' kind of thing.)
Posted by: David (TEFL Smiler) | 30 May 2004 23:16:14
Kirsty: No! Ask me in another 10 though. Actually i have been showing Mr McM the photos all day and telling him that I don't look too bad for an 'old bird'. His eyes glazed over, but he did agree.
David: I know what you mean about the anticipation of the consequences of drinking putting you off. I seem to have drunk quite a lot over the last month or so (for me) and it doesn't feel as good in my 30's as it did in my 20's!
Anyway, I've stayed up too late as I still haven't recovered from yesterday. It's a bit sad really, but I have to go to bed and try and sleep through the sounds of drunken barbecue revelry across the way! Bastards!
Posted by: mrs mcmuffin | 30 May 2004 23:26:22
Can you post about that Nando's chicken restaurant on the right hand side there? I love chicken and that graphic is too cute.
Posted by: Norah | 31 May 2004 03:19:35
