Well, I got through Friday night just fine. Stuck to the plan - teeny starter; tikka main course (no massala) with Pilau rice. No dessert. No coffee. A couple of Poppadoms, and diet coke in the pub (although I'm convinced I accidentally ended up with full fat instead...)
I was dead pleased with myself. I had a slight panic when I thought I'd left my purse at home...and I was treating M as it's HIS birthday meal. Luckily my loss of colour and panicked expression went unnoticed and I found the offending item, because if I *had* left it at home I would still have been hearing about 'the night I paid for my own birthday meal' on our 25th weddding anniversary!!!
Saturday was good, very busy...the guys bought their wedding outfits (or ordered them) and I managed to find the coat & boots I wanted for Canada in Next (I can NEVER find anything in Next as a rule. As it was, I tried on the size 16 in the shop and looked an arse)
A slight miscalculation about the true calorie value of the Panini in Cafe Nero meant that I had to economise all day (how was I supposed to know that the calorie figure on the back of the sandwich was per 100g, it's not as if they give you a set of scales on your table in the coffee shop is it?) and I only had an omelette & apple for dinner at 5pm.
L was trying on outfits in Monsoon for her bridesmaid dress, she looked lovely. Of course, they didn't have her size in stock in the right colour so she ended up in a candy pink version...for some reason she wouldn't let me take a photo on my phone...
I ordered the coat & boots from Next online, along with a top for going out, and a skirt. How come I get the new Christmas Directory book yesterday and by the time I had looked through and ordered (or tried to) half the stuff I liked was already sold out???
Anyway. I also found some cargo pants in Simply Be, and a pair of chocolate coloured jeans & some trousers in Wallis. Bang bang, ordered, debit card number given, OUCH. And the Next skirt is on a FIVE week delay!!! Oh well, it will stop me from wearing it before we go.
So.
The night was still young, I got to K's around 7pm and started drinking. They were all feasting on K's chilli, which smelled awesome, but I sat and steadfastly ignored it. Should have lined my stomach really, a little omelette isn't going to do much is it? 
We ended up drinking loads in the Wetherspoons pub, because it was bloody cheap. £2.50 for a DOUBLE voddie & red bull! We were drinking it by the pitcher - well there were ten of us at one point. I tried to include a few diet cokes and waters but I put away quite an amount, then we got booted out of the pub & queued up for De Niro's.
De Niros is cheesey and tacky and I hadn't been there for five years, and it hasn't changed in those five years. We headed for the cheesiest bit where all the eighties cheese was being wheeled out, strutted to 'Hey Mickey' and 'I will survive' (told you it was cheese) and eventually got fed up during a Queen megamix, especially as it was apparently Guns & Roses next. So we moved into the main part of the club...where they were doing a NINETIES clasic dance megamix...blimey, nostalgia-tastic.
We could have pulled, between the five of us that made it to the club, SEVERAL times over last night. Mind you, that would have been if we were either NOT fussy at all, blindingly desperate, or wearing beer goggles. At one point I said to J that if she was in some kind of a 'pull a minger' contest, she'd won outright with the odd-looking and quite persitant bespectacled Japanese guy.
K had beer tipped all over her feet and handbag, then to add insult, was followed by an irritating specimen who kept invading our space, and clearly fancied K. How many times do you need to turn your back on a guy, walk away from him, and blatantly ignore him before he realises you don't fancy him!? 
Oh, and another guy walked up to K and said "I'm feeling really horny tonight"
Lost for words, I think she mumbled something back which roughly translated meant "Well, I'm not, so sod off" 
By 2 AM we'd all been kicked out of De Niros too, so we walked back to K's and decided we wanted her breakfast 'McMuffins' at 3:00. So all in all, I didn't do VERY well, although I suspect being on my feet all day (in town for three hours, then out on the town for six) may have burned some of it off.
I'm paying for my indulgences today though. I thought I'd got away with it scot-free but sadly although I'm relatively headache-free I have a minging upset tummy. Oh dear 
I reckon I put away 2500 calories yesterday, and 30% of them were from alcohol...I'll be on BRAVO TV 'Booze Nation' for binge drinking if I'm not careful!! It makes me laugh how many kids there were clinging to lamp posts looking as if they were going to hurl. There was no drunken indiscretion from our group...mind you there wasn't much to work with if any of us HAD been tempted!
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Anyway. After about 4 hours sleep, I was awake and Matt came to get me at 11. I've had a nice long bath to wash the smoke & stink of De Niros out of my hair, and now I intend to chill out and do very little all the rest of the day. I may have slipped up a little, but back on the wagon again today!
