later there will be pie

And punch?

I know why I woke up hung over: Vodka.

I measured that martini glass. It can hold a few ounces over 1.5 cups of liquid when filled to the brim.

But, since I was only drinking vodka I'm not terribly hung over. Nothing a nice cuppa and a smoke and some water can't cure.

loquacious: How does vodka != hangover? You need to drink nine times as much water as ethanol in order to avoid a hangover, and you get about a 50/50 mix with vodka.

I feel a little worn out, and my stomach is a little upset, but beyond that I have like zero hangover. I just don't really get them, which is kind of strange. Oh well, can't complain :P

I feel like crap, but I'm not hungover. Just the victim of a vicious, nasty, snotterific head cold. Still, it's the best I've felt on a New Year's Day in years.

headache here, but champagne always does that to me, and i still have my cold too. i drank much less than i would have if i had gone out--i can't sit and drink alone--i associate drinking with going out, and bars, and company and stuff.

the 11 hours of sleep helped tho--i needed it : >

i realized i'm not hung over after all, just extremely underfed, underhydrated and achy from muscles i haven't used much recently.

an herbal bath and aleve has done wonders, now some herbal remedy and some form of starchy goodness will be the ticket.
(udon would rock but so might eggs florentine or whatever you call the wild mushroom version. i bet nothing is open (not that i could find that stuff easily) and i'm tired.)

no anecdotes? i have images of pale blue drinks and odder things i may string together later.

i'm taking a pause between returning calls and scheming a minor group gluttony to type the intro to the new mechat song. Think a cross between "mad dogs and englishmen" and the python penis song:
(sorry i'm too tired to fake out written music in text, but it's kinda for piano)

Before I get to some specifics
I find it geezertazariffic
six months could pave the way
to our very own arse hat day--
then a glissando before a hint of chorus--

my sympathies for those under the weather, it's a place i'm far too familiar with.
But after i get some real nutrition in me (and check on some of life's consistent hobgoblins) i promise minor amusements of music and pics and here is a minute minor aside to tide you over:

i broke out the multi colored glowsticks and may have adorned neighborhood children's snowmen with glowing halos.
i imagine there may have been some random results such as:
"Mom, Dad! My snowman is glowing!"
"It's past midnight, go to bed, already!"

eth! : >

(do alternating halos and devil horns!)

I paid last night. Since losing 70 lb. last year, I got off my acid reflux medicine and don't have any problems, unless I eat weird and varied foods while on vacation or at parties. An hour before midnight was one of those problem times. It felt like my stomach was being dissolved from the inside out in acid.

Thank God I still have some of my old Prevacid at home. Once that kicked in at about 2 in the morning, I felt much better.

I use mind over matter techniques. In the morning I usually whip up scrambled eggs with tomato sauce on top. I don't get hangovers regularly luckily.

I didn't think I had overdone it, but boy did my head hurt this morning.

I blame it on the half-litre of sake I had, followed by a couple G&Ts and some champagne.

I still feel like warm death. I just this minute got around to making the hoppin' john (traditional new years southern thing, rice & black eyed peas) and usually I have that done by noon. And I richly deserve my hangover, oh god, oh god, beer & makers mark & more beer & champagne & moonshine, serious moonshine from Tennessee, & more beer.

and drunken kisses from a man from Chattanooga, why oh why do I never get kissed by anyone who lives in the same state as me?

No hangover for me. Just Turbodog and Champagne, neither in record volume. It's been a prety low-key holiday. And I'm still working on the aforementioned machines that crashed and burned last night, so I'm stuck at home instead of at any of a half-dozen parties. Grr.

Luckily, I'll have plenty of opportunity to open the floodgates tomorrow night: Rollergirls premier party!

loquacious: How does vodka != hangover?

Superior alien liver technology.

Oh, well, that and vodka doesn't usually have a bunch of weird extra chemicals to deal with alongside the EToH. I generally have much less intrusive hangovers on vodka.

If I just drink nice vodka chilled and neat with plenty of water I hardly ever get hung over, and I can seriously put away Russian quantities of vodka, without snacks.

Martinis are different, though.

Cheap beer? Red wine? Tequila? Those are purified death in a bottle to me, hangover wise. There's very little as brutal as a red wine hangover.

Wine is particularly vile, in that sense, because of the residual sugars. As are drinks that incorporate liqueurs or sugary mixers.

My father, a champion drinker in his day, once took me aside as a teenager and warned against drinking rum, red wine and tequila if I wanted to avoid a hangover. Vodka, he extolled, was least likely to leave you feeling like ass.

The old man knows. Loq is right.

i always think of vodka as the least hangover enabler. And young whiskeys in large doses don't like me.

"Know you colors, know your chemicals."
--paraphrase from Mermaids
haven't you learned the sugar and cheap carbonation will get ya?

drink the good stuff or be prepared.
*hands out liquid b complex*
maalox max is my good friend.

actually, i prepped with a light nightly cocktail three days in advance, but i didn't expect the sudden Hypnotic attack.
odd night.
cool day.
it's been undoubtably copacetic for several days.

ah.

oh but i just had a few cheap american beers and chocolate cookie things.
and tobaccos.