Last night was a crazy night

Hanging out with my friends is taking its toll on me.

Sure, I did miss Nick, Oz and James but I sure hope I can stop getting drunk and pissed out of my mind.

No Dinner + Four bottles of Jim Beam = Danger.

No Dinner + Four bottles of Jim Beam + Drive to the bottle shop + 40 standard drinks worth of Jim Beam = Double Danger.

I spent the night praying to the porcelain god.

I got picked up by Uncle and Auntie and I had to say I got food poisoning. Imagine their disgust if I told them I had too much to drink. They probably would stop the car and kick me out and I'd be lying on a ditch somewhere. Not good.

I feel good now. Two bottles of Powerade and rice soup for the whole day made me better.


No matter what you do family will always be family

My cousin was telling me how he got into a fight with one of his friends. I told him that he should patched things up with his mate.

It'll be a shame to throw it away, I said.

Nikki, just because we were friends for a long time doesn't mean we should stay friends, he replied.

Especially since we don't have anything in common anymore, he added.

I was dumbfounded. I can't just throw away a friendship like that. My cousin and his friend had been mates for a long time. Since they were in nappies, I might add. And them fighting would be like giving up a brother.

But for him, it seemed easy. I can't see it but then he said something that really struck me as weird.

If you have nothing in common anymore. If everything he does annoy you, you have to let it go. You have to move on. There's nothing wrong with it. If he's a good mate, he'll understand. If he can't, screw him. You don't need people like that anyway.

The thing is though, I know exactly what he meant. I can't hold people back and I don't want to get held back either.

Maybe it's time to grow up.

It is time to grow up, you had so much time this year to fuck up. You annoyed the hell out of your mum and you did a good job screwing a lot of people. You have to mature a little. You owe that to yourself, he said.

It really is time to grow up.

Times like these, I miss my family.