Laurie J. King’s blog

How are you spending New Year's Eve?

This New Year's Eve I reluctantly made plans to go to a party with some friends, I even made the offer to be the Designated Driver.  Should be easy enough since I haven't drank alcohol since September 6, 2006, five days before starting chemo for breast cancer.  Plus the fact that it drinking alcohol would not mix well with the meds I take in order to tolerate people...or do I take them to tolerate myself?   Either way, it will be easy not to drink and entertaining watching people who don't know their limits and say/do stupid things.   I do have enough mind left to remember that I celebrated previous New Year's  getting so drunk it nearly erased everything from the old year that was seen out.  Nothing beats a 3am phone call when you are drunk and passed out on the east coast from someone more drunk than you on the west coast screaming, "HAPPY NEW YEAR", yet you don't remember that call till January 7th.