I hate waking up on Sunday mornings with a pounding headache. Each and every pound seems to be a painful reminder from all that alcohol you drank yesterday. I was out drinking yesterday – I can’t even recall when the last time I went out was! It’s been a while, that’s the only thing I know. It doesn’t take a genius to figure that out though! The splitting headache is a simple sign that my body is not used to consuming that much alcohol…

I’ll be honest, yesterday I was wasted! There’s no better way around it. I’d love to be diplomatic and say I was tipsy like a decent lady ought to be, and that I didn’t drink that much…but the reality of it is that we were all sloshed. All of us: Tee, Noxy, Linda and I.

Who would’ve thought that the day would take the course it took? I mean all that we had planned to do was go watch Linda perform at the campus poetry competition. That’s all we had planned for Saturday. But if there’s anything you should know by now about my roommate, Noxy, is that whenever she finds a reason to celebrate something, alcohol – and loads of it – will be involved. Linda took second price for the poetry category and for some odd reason we all thought that that warranted a girls’ night out.

So, we went pub crawling! I’m not sure whose idea this was…and, quite frankly, I don’t care. All I know is that yesterday I had blast of a night with my friends. I thoroughly enjoyed myself. I danced. I drank. I was happy. It’s true that happiness cannot be bought. I guess that’s the case with friendship too. It’s difficult to find friends who genuinely make you happy, ones who go out of the way to try to bring a smile back to your face, ones who rejoice in your joys, and once who cry with you when things are not going well for you.

My head still feels a bit heavy, as if it’s not mine at all. I feel groggy and I’m exhausted…my voice is gone too. But I still can’t stop smiling whenever I think of yesterday. Happiness is being with people whose love for you is unpretentious. Give me friends who don’t pretend around me and I’d gladly endure a splitting headache to show them how much I appreciate their presence in my life.

I need to wake up now. Otherwise, I’ll be late for the dinner with my mother at 3 pm and you know how she’s always fussing about this and that…! I wouldn’t want her to be on my case, especially not today! A hangover is enough! I don’t want unnecessary stress…not today at least!

ZZ xxx

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