A month without alcohol

Fact: I’m an absolute bastard. Last Saturday I did something really un cool and I don’t feel half as bad about it as I should. I dunno, I could and have done much worse things to people but this one registered an awful lot more.
Anyways it was a typical Saturday night and I was at a typical ‘girls excuse to dress up pre-planned shin dig’. I was there with a very good friend of mine, who is yet to talk to me since, whom I love dearly-possibly a little too dearly. And you know exactly where this cliché is going don’t you.
The fact that I made a move on one of my favourite people in the world doesn’t particularily bother me. It’ll be awkward for a while but neither of us will care in a fortnight. What does bother me is the way I did it.
Naturally, her being my friend, I didn’t set out to chase her. In fact, I was romancing another fair maiden when my good friend walked past. I was actually in, I had done all the leg work, all the crap that most guys hate but I really love. As I was saying, she was hooked and I just had to reel her in, bada bing bada boom bada bap another easy peasy 123 textbook pull. But I didn’t do that.
No, I didn’t do that at all. Instead I got up and walked off without saying a thing. Better still, I got up and walked over to another girl without saying a thing. Even better still, I got up and walked over to another girl to tell her that I really really liked her very much. Better again I slurred that I loved her-and she soberly didn’t feel the same!
But thats not where it ends. No ladys and gents boys and girls, thats not where it ends at all. I actually went back looking for the first girl, having treated her like dirt only a little while earlier I thought I’d make it up to her and we’d pick up where we left off. But Apparently she went home early that night. I feel like I ruined the poor girls night even though it was completely unintentional because I was really drunk and hence incapable of doing anything intentionally.

On the plus side, I discovered my new favourite shot that night; liquid cocaine(sambuka, tequila and golshlagger)

Alcohol is expensive. College is expensive. Put the two together and you know how I managed to spend nearly five hundred quid in the last month despite the fact that I still live with my parents and have no job.

I went on 3 college trips and to two 3 debs and I’m broke. On the upside though I’ve been drunk in some crazy ass places and woken up with some serious stories to tell.

Highlights include:

3 shots and 2 pints in ten minutes with some mad bastard from Belfast just before last orders.

Waking up in Limerick

5 of us waiting for the student bar to start serving at around 12 in the morning

A bottle of disgusting stomach churning wine from esso

Drinking cans at 6:30 in the morning at the spire

Being dunk on a ferry

Getting a police escourt to Edinborough

A pitcher of Guinness

Walking around a foriegn city in a toga

Stumbling out of the leisureplex to get the first bus home in the morning-in a tux

The state of some English girl I met

Law-the coolest bastard I’ve ever met on a train

Vodka from lidl(poison)

Deep fried marsbars

Getting back to the hotel at 6 and interrupting my roomate and his bird

Staying in the most ludicrously dangerous part of Derry, so dangerous in fact that the taxi’s took off their plates to enter

Making the same new friends over and over and over again

Stealing bottles of Harp

those 2 big red pitchers of something somewhere

Irn bru and deep fried mars bars

My balance sheet, it arrived yeasterday and it is hillarious

Tá sé seo uafásach ach táim chomh leisciúl gur chuma liom, ná léigh é mar ní fiú é

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