A remedy in excess

I can make all kinds of excuses, but it doesn't change the fact that today I did a very scary and bad thing. A thing that could be the first nudge in the downward spiral into the bad parts of the status quo.

M's birthday party was a great success last night. I got four %100 performances at the karaoke bar (w00t!). There was much merriment and even though I thought I wasn't going to drink, I ended up drinking and getting a pounding hangover for my efforts. M was far worse for wear and there was food shopping to be done, so I got my ass in gear and made my way to Loblaws.

I discovered that shopping hungover is second only to shopping hungry when it comes to making choices about buying food. I suppose my rationale was "I'd rather get it now so that I can stay home for the rest of eternity and get better instead of having to ever shop again." It was a shopping trip of epic proportions.

On the way home, I decided that only grease would be the remedy that I needed. My typical hangover remedy is either A&W fries and chocolate milk or McDonalds chicken McNuggets and a chocolate milkshake. I still don't know Toronto like I should I had I no idea where I could find any of that food available in drive through. I can handle parking in Toronto most days, but hangover days, there's just no way.

I know where there's a Harvey's so I called M, got his order, and started driving down to the Queensway to get a burger and poutine. Lo and behold on my way down Islington I see a MacDonalds on my right. It took me maybe three nanoseconds to make the choice to turn in and appease my aching head.

You would think that I would just get my order and make my way to Harvey's to get M's, but no. I ate my McNuggets and drank my milkshake on the drive to and in the drive through line-up at Harvey's. And then proceeded to order the poutine for myself anyway.

I've had days of gluttony before. But I think that I did it all without actually standing up in any way is what troubled me the most.

And of course, I still have a pounding hangover.

Today's sing-a-long song: "The Remedy" by Jason Mraz

HRH