Oh dear

[liadnan]

To those of you under 30 I have some bad news to impart. The day after your 30th birthday you will wake up with the worst hangover of your life. You think it's merely an aberration, for obvious reasons. But it isn't. You have lost the ability to drink and wake up fresh and rosy the next morning.

You have also lost the ability, but not the desire, to go out and have fun on a Friday night. It will take you at least three years before this fact finally permeates your thick skull.

There are exceptions of course. The inimitable Eurotrash springs to mind.

I'm not one of them and will be very unhappy tomorrow morning.

Must find neurofen before going to bed.

Comments

[fairymelusine.livejournal.com]

you can keep said bad news to yourself.

sincerely,

6 months and 5 days to go.

[liadnan]

Sorry, but I consider it my duty to tell people The Horrible Truth.

[fairymelusine.livejournal.com]

You're a terrible man.

Recovered yet?

[nicnac.livejournal.com]

The trick is to wake up around 7am-ish, stagger to the kitchen, imbibe enough water to cause your water company to worry about their reserve levels, stagger back to bed and sleep til noon. Then inhale a large fried breakfast* and several pints of orange juice whilst browsing through the weekend supplements. Job done, you'll feel fine.


*Avoiding the tinned tomatoes. Why do they put tinned tomatoes with fried breakast? They're foul and the juice makes the toast soggy.

[liadnan]

Curiously, I didn't wake up until midday.. but feel ok. Odd.

[dr-lovely.livejournal.com]

OH FUCK fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck. I have only 9 months and 7 days to go. Bugger. I never realised. I love tinned tomatoes. Often I eat an entire can (only) for breakfast.

[liadnan]

You are very strange. But we knew that.

Ha

[tabouli.livejournal.com]

Middle age is a state of mind, I say. One I'm not having a bar of. I'm two years past the 30 barrier, and I meet 28 year olds who are older than me. Often. OK, so I admit I don't weather sleep deprivation like I used to, but I am definitely one for raging against the dying of the light, etc. rather than wilting before it...

Re: Ha

[liadnan]

... says the non-drinker though.

[tabouli.livejournal.com]

True, true. I often muse that my almost-teetotal status has many advantages. I save huge amounts of money, am a social asset as I don't mind being designated driver, and don't get hangovers. Keeps me young! Heh.

It's awkward in other ways, though - alcohol is so central to the way most Anglophones entertain themselves. I often feel quite the anti-social killjoy, but I'm still not keen on drinking. As you saw in Istanbul, my face goes purple, blotchy and horrible after one glass of the stuff (and just one glass of red wine gives me two day hangovers). Any more than that and I turn vague and sleepy...

[booklectica]

To this I should add that having a baby destroys one's ability to stay up past 11pm.

[liadnan]

But requires one to get up at 3 no?

[itchyfidget.livejournal.com]

Commiserations.

I passed that landmark about 15 months ago. Actually I think I must be old for my age, since I've been getting crapper at drinking for a few years now. *sob*.

[liadnan]

Oh, I'm depressinly far past it -2 years and a month. I just Still Haven't Learnt Yet.

[itchyfidget.livejournal.com]

*raises glass*

Here's to Not Having Learned!

[chrysaphi.livejournal.com]

Sorry to have missed you last night.

[liadnan]

Aye, me too: had double booked myself.

[rparvaaz.livejournal.com]

If you are 32 and pregnant, you don't even remember what waking up fresh and rosy used to feel like...

Count your blessings... ;)

[liadnan]

V. glad I never have to face this prospect for oh so many reasons.

[sshi.livejournal.com]

be glad you didn't have twenty-one twenty-year-olds trying to get you to come clubbing with them...