Four Drunk EyesLiving in Costa Rica with no job is a lot like being in university. The similarities are obvious. I am “learning” (taking a finance course, learning Spanish), my parents are far away, I have no money, I sleep in, and I get wasted a lot. The differences are less subtle beginning with the fact that I have no friends. However this does NOT stop Gord and I from getting drunk. In fact, I think it actually encourages us. We have hunted down every happy hour in town. We start drinking at noon because we can!
One random Wednesday night we went out for dinner and ended up… wasted! One of my favourite pastimes is “accidentally” getting blackout drunk. If you know me, you know I love to get drunk. But if you have ever lived with me or dated me you’ll know I love nothing more than to plan a nice little evening out, and then go ahead and get completely shittered. Something about not “planning” to get drunk makes the idea seem novel and spontaneous. I also feel like this somehow absolves me of any responsibility for my actions like, “Oopsie, look what happened. This really is not what I had planned!”
Results from nights like these usually run the gamut from sleeping in and being late for work (not going to happen here) to falling of my bike and sleeping on the couch (bingo!). Yep, not only did I miss the turnoff for my own street, I fell into gravel, and passed out alone on the couch. We both woke up with such raging hangovers that I immediately jumped on my bike to find a phone with which I could cancel our Spanish lesson. Now, if you think this is despicable I beg of you, stop reading now!!! This was the grossest, most hungover day of life. Excepting the shameful phone call, Gord and I did not leave the house all day. Or the couch. We had the AC going full blast and we ate KD with hot dogs, wished for pizza delivery, and finally having no groceries at all… I made hotdog-fried rice. I would like to point out that the hotdogs were really more of a spicy-sausage variety, but I’m pretty sure everyone has already slotted both Gord and I into their “on par with the homeless” category.
We’ve both gotten pretty epically drunk recently but I’m pretty sure that was our mutual rock bottom. We haven’t missed a Spanish lesson or eaten a hotdog since! However today IS Wednesday… stay tuned.
One random Wednesday night we went out for dinner and ended up… wasted! One of my favourite pastimes is “accidentally” getting blackout drunk. If you know me, you know I love to get drunk. But if you have ever lived with me or dated me you’ll know I love nothing more than to plan a nice little evening out, and then go ahead and get completely shittered. Something about not “planning” to get drunk makes the idea seem novel and spontaneous. I also feel like this somehow absolves me of any responsibility for my actions like, “Oopsie, look what happened. This really is not what I had planned!”
Results from nights like these usually run the gamut from sleeping in and being late for work (not going to happen here) to falling of my bike and sleeping on the couch (bingo!). Yep, not only did I miss the turnoff for my own street, I fell into gravel, and passed out alone on the couch. We both woke up with such raging hangovers that I immediately jumped on my bike to find a phone with which I could cancel our Spanish lesson. Now, if you think this is despicable I beg of you, stop reading now!!! This was the grossest, most hungover day of life. Excepting the shameful phone call, Gord and I did not leave the house all day. Or the couch. We had the AC going full blast and we ate KD with hot dogs, wished for pizza delivery, and finally having no groceries at all… I made hotdog-fried rice. I would like to point out that the hotdogs were really more of a spicy-sausage variety, but I’m pretty sure everyone has already slotted both Gord and I into their “on par with the homeless” category.
We’ve both gotten pretty epically drunk recently but I’m pretty sure that was our mutual rock bottom. We haven’t missed a Spanish lesson or eaten a hotdog since! However today IS Wednesday… stay tuned.
