Drinking Weekend

This post was originally published on golifelog.com.

Another “short weekend” is coming up, as I will be doing a paramedic duty tomorrow morning (7am, until 4pm). Afterwards, there was a celebration of the retirement of the former CEO of the local Red Cross station, and since I wasn’t at the Christmas party last year, I decided to attend the event tomorrow.

There are already plans to get some beers with one of my colleagues, so I won’t even bother driving there and instead rely on my feet (who doesn’t like a drunk walk home?). It’s only about 2 kilometres, so it should take me maximum 20 to 30 minutes.

Depending on how many beers there will be, I guess Sunday will be a “wasted” day. So I did the only feasible thing today: stop working early and took a way too long nap on the couch.

Luckily, there are only a handful of occasions per year, where I’ll be drinking above my thirst. Thankfully, I also know my limit, so I never passed, unlike the many drunk people I “collected” in my duties. But I can feel that I can’t recover as fast from a night drinking out, then I used to.