After my night of drunken abandonment when everyone was awake K & M & P left to go back home. M is not from our area and was only here visiting family for the holidays. M and P (her brother) were leaving the next day so I invited M & P out that night to show them some sites that K had no intention of showing them. They agreed and decided to stay at S and watch the games. Mainly because I was still slightly intoxicated and had no where I needed to be. At S's house in the man-pad (think back or reference from New Years Eve story) we moved all of the TV's in front of the couch and reheated the munchies from the previous night and just watched football and drank some more beer. Best way to cure a hangover is to feed the beast that's biting your ass, in moderation of course.

I stayed at S's house till about 4:00 when i decided it was time to leave, do chores, shower and get ready to pick-up M and P. Around 5:15, K called and said he would take them to the spot we were going that night. They wanted to go see a movie (Sweeny Todd) and our movie complex just so happened to have a bar upstairs. So we bought a couple of drinks and waited for the movie start (about an hour wait). Not feeling fully refreshed M mentioned that a Jack and Coke would be nice for the movie and I had to agree, just had to figure out how to do it. I went to the concession stand and bought a large coke filled 3/4 full and we walked our merry buts back to the bar where M got a triple Jack neat. We went off into the corner, poured the Jack in the coke and walked back downstairs to see the movie. The movie was good and the Jack and coke that M and I shared hit the spot.

After the movie it's only like 10:30'ish and the night was still young, so we went back to K's place and I sampled some of his IPA beer. Not bad, little to hoppy for my taste though. Around Midnight, I got a call from another friend of mine L (not to be confused with S's L). L said she was having a party and her husband wanted to hear me play a song on the guitar. I asked if I could bring a friend (guess who) and when that was ok, M and I left to go to L's place.

Like I said before, M is a partier and L had a full liquor cabinet (well it was full). Since I knew I had to take M back home later I did the responsible thing and quit drinking and just had water, otherwise we would not have made it back to K's place. After everyone had a couple rounds, L pulled out the guitar and I just started playing. Through jokes and more shots this was our evening from around midnight to 3 a.m.. I was getting kinda cozy with M, but knew I had to get her back to K's place.

So we left and I had her safely back to K's place where we just sat out in the car and talked some more. We said some good goodbye's (she had a midday fight to catch) and I took off, sent an email into work explaining I need the day off and went back to L's place. I have not seen her in a while and I just wanted to stay up a talk. By the time I got back, L was praying to the porcelain goddess and her husband was passed out. I explained all of the New Years happenings as we got caught up with what has been going on with our lives. Stayed up a couple more hours, went to sleep on the couch and awoke to the smell of omelets in the morning.

Needless to say I started the New Year off right, at least in my mind.