in typical friday night style i boozed up big again. and my body is paying the price today. but it was fun and worth it and i'd do it all again in a heartbeat.

rather than just drinking at work, we relocated to mike's house for jelly shots, beer in pineapples and much fun-ness. it seemed like a good idea to play fight with boys much bigger than me, and now i have a few mystery sore spots on my arms and shoulders. i will definately make people feel guilty if i bruise. i wonder if i left a bite mark? heh... my teeth are my only defense when someone threatens to throw me over the fence.

after much booze, i started drifting in and out of consciousness while a bunch of people played UNO. but it was crazy, wierd UNO. it was a little card holding machine, and rather than picking up a card you just press a button... it may spit out one card, it may spit out none, or it may spit about 5 cards! hehehe it was fun, but my head was very heavy. so i wandered upstairs and ended up on a bed, just to rest my eyes.

next thing i know, i wake up, its dark, and hang on, i'm in a different bed. i get up to go to the bathroom and i see one of the twins in the other room. however its dark and they're kinda laying on their front so i have no idea if its mitch or mike. and i have no idea who's room i'm in. but i was there alone, so that means someone is having to sleep on a floor/couch etc. god, i'm that annoying drunk person who never goes home, stays well past their welcome, or passes out instead. i freaked out, and decided i'd walk home. it was only a suburb or two away, so that's all good. hell i probably need to sober up anyway, as i still felt drunk. i snuck downstairs in the dark and i think i could make out someone on the couch. possibly female, possibly with dark hair but who can really tell in this non-existant light.

the fresh air woke me up a bit and the cigarette made me feel really fucking skanky. walking home with slight bedhair at 3.30am. after about 10 mins i realize i think i'm headed in the wrong direction, shit, so i flip around and start back. a few taxi's passed me but i thought 'why pay $10 when i could walk home in 25mins easily?'.... of course, my super comfy shoes start rubbing my foot funny and after 15 mins of walking in a direction that wasn't 100% the way i wanted to be going, i could feel i was going to get a big fat blister on my toe.

i avoided eye contact with anyone i passed, feeling like i was doing the walk of shame home even tho it wasn't daylight. i slowed to a hobble. i finally got home as the sun was started to rise... about 4.30am. i tried to piece together the last few hours of the night, and had a frozen dinner. god, when will i learn that i HAVE to eat before drinking copious amounts of wine.... mmmm and those jelly shots. they were potent but soo darn good.

i passed out about 5 i think. woken up at 8.30am by a potential flatmate calling about the rooms. oh yea, i'm sure i impressed her by answering the phone with a grunt, and my voice cracked as i tried to speak coherently. briony and i went into the city and did some xmas shopping.. well actually we were just going in to get me some accessories for new years eve but ran into rach and chris who were madly shopping for their hu-mungo family and we kinda felt guilty for saying we weren't getting anything for anyone. so after much guilt we decided to get the parentals something. but of course, they are the 2 hardest people to buy for in the world. mum has just moved into a new place and has bought all new furniture and stuff, everything matches. i haven't seen it yet so i dont know what she has, what she needs, what her theme is.anyway we ended up getting dad this awesome desk set (sterling silver penholder/pen/card holder/clock) and some nice photoframes. i know he has to do so much paperwork now he's a cop, and is always at the office. so yea. we're going to take nice photos of us (and totally photoshop ourselves), print them out and put them in the frames. heheheh

mum however, we're still a bit clueless what to get her. she knows socialises with her 'girls' all the time. they have girls weekends and 2 of her friends live near her new place down at the beach, so she is always entertaining etc. we were going to get her a little gift basket of things for the girls weekends- drinking games, and what not. but then we found this awesome leather box she had pointed out to briony before... so we came home with a leather box, a pack of cards with drinking games on them and a little cocktail shaker full of fun game essentials. dice, and other gamey things.i ended up buying myself a nice kettle coz the old one was... well, old. and crappy. and there was 10% off kettles at myers. mmm then i got some new years eve outfit accessories. and a fucking mad gift for rach, but i can't tell you what it is yet.. dont want to spoil it for her. but god when i saw it i pissed myself laughing at how perfect it was for her.

mmm so all in all, a good shopping day. altho i'm at least $250 poorer which is a bit of a worry because i'm not sure if i'll have to cover a week or two of rent after the boys leave and before i get new flatmates in. part of me wants to have at least a few days between so i can get in and do a real good clean up of the place.

ergh i must return to the couch now.... it feels like my insides try to become my outsides. damn you liver, stay there and filter my blood goddamnit. are you going to let a few bottles of wine beat you? NEVER!