(Para la versión en castellano, pinche aquí).
Well, the second weekend of sober socialising is practially over.
I must admit I had a glass of white wine with my lunch on Friday, a treat that I resist giving up. As usual, I feel quite sleepy afterwards, so to finish up my treat, I have my little Friday afternoon nap. Woke up refreshed and ready to take on the weekend.
I went to support a friend who has landed a gig presenting karaoke at a bar. I order a double tonic water (without gin!) and I felt quite unconfortable at first, felt all eyes were on me. But as the night progressed, I felt more at ease, chatted to people, known & unknown.
When I was asked "Why are you not singing?", I replied "Because I am not drinking" which was followed obviously by "Why are you not drinking?" to which I replied with extremely ease: "Because I'm driving". "Oh, you are driving, that is a good reason if there ever was one", or something to that effect, I was told. I didn't argue.
I am not ready, nor I think it's the right time or place, to start telling strangers about my 365 challenge.
I had a second helping of a "double tonic water", which normally starts tasting unpleasant but to my surprise it tasted quite nice. Got home, slept like a baby and woke up the next morning quite early... not hangover! With the whole day ahead of me. What a change!
That night I had been invited to a BBQ with some work colleagues. I was also driving. Perfect excuse. Drank non-alcoholic beer (note to self: avoid this brand in future!).
This morning I had a 3km charity walk in aid of AFOL (a local cancer charity) and I even woke up before the alarm went off! I'm liking this "non hangover" days.
All in all, if so far is anything to go by I'm starting to wonder why didn't I do this years ago.
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