The Story of my Weekend

This weekend was a pretty good one, there was a lot going on and still no sign of cracking... although its only been 3 weeks I'm pretty proud of myself - even though I can't have another alcoholic beverage until there's a birthday night out in April...

Anyway, my weekend. Friday night was a good and strange one. People just kept popping out of the woodwork, and it seemed that about half the people I go out with somehow managed to turn up in the same pub at the same time, and some of them randomly knew each other...

It started with a few drinks with a work-mate, then gradually started to ramp up with every new arrival. I kept to my strict regime of coke or lemonade - i couldn't really think of a new non-alcoholic drink so just stuck to the usual. It was a pretty good night, with people turning up all over the shop, always someone to talk to and catch up with.

The only downers were that I had to leave fairly early in order to get home as I needed to be up at 8am as we were getting our new front door - which I must say is definitely a step up from the one with the hole in... There was a lot of talk about this challenge, where people were almost mourning the loss of me as a drinking buddy which was a bit of a shame, but on the flip side there was a lot of people telling me I was doing something good, and that they were supporting me which was really good to hear. The other downer was that I missed out on moving onto somewhere there was dancing... For some reason when I go out at the moment because I'm not drunk I have so much more energy and I do like to get my dance on...

Well that was Friday, and Saturday was different but in some ways better. It started early with getting a new front door, and escalated from there. I met up with a few friends in order to organise one of our best friend's stag weekends... which culminated with various thoughts about what we could make him wear in order for him to be humiliated the most - as he really doesn't mind being naked or wearing a dress...

This moved onto playing football for an hour or so where I figured out that I have lost both my first touch and half my lung capacity... but apart from that it was a good laugh and really good to catch up with my friends. That evening we were all planning on heading into London for a friend's birthday - but unfortunately pretty much everyone decided to be weak and bailed... leaving just myself and my mate Keith.

This didn't take anything away from the night out however, we managed to still have a lot of fun - and there was indeed some dancing this night. The highlights of the evening for me had to be the clientele in the main bar we ended up in - and the wonderful Mrs Miller who led a tremendous sing-a-long in a pub we found. Combining the hit music of every era from "What shall we do with the drunken sailor", and "Hey Jude" to the sing-a-long delights of DJ Sammy this truly was a wonderful spectacle and very easy to get involved with.

The night was a success, even though there were the odd obstacle, like the complications of an upset girlfriend (which brought back conflicting good and bad memories for me), the lack of alcohol in my system, the prices of everything, and the fact that we missed our last train home... Although in one respect things were great - I smoked only before the main event, and after - whilst in the actual final bar I only took very expensive lemonade into my system - a fact that I'm proud of.

We came back on Sunday morning, after a couple of hours sleep, just in time for our Mother's Day lunch. Because I was not hungover at all, this was also a success, I even helped to cook... The rest of the day however was spent mostly just resting up as I'd had two late nights and two very early mornings - but in the evening I managed to do quite a lot of reading and writing and so all in all this was definitely a good weekend, apart from the mighty Villa being destroyed...

I have noticed that these days tho that because my body is not filled with alcohol that I have so much more energy and I really need an outlet for this. So I'm looking for activities to do that will help me get rid of this energy and give me even more to do!

This week could be rather interesting as it signifies the return to town of a deviant... which could cause issues - but I'll face those as I've faced every one so far - in a sober state!