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January 24, 2007
Holiday Season Come Down Cures.
It would have been better providing you lot with this some time around mid-January but never mind. Here are some helpful tips on how to shake off the dreaded feeling of ‘bleurgh’ that can follow on from serious shindiggery!
It’s January. You’ve made it – god knows how – through the holiday season’s seemingly endless gauntlet of parties and shindigs, grimaced and probably boozed your way through your family celebrations, donned yer drinking cap and kept it real for New Years Eve and now you find yourself exhausted, physically broken and mentally fried in the first month of 2007.
But fear not, dear chums. I’m a bit of an expert when it comes to dusting myself off in order to climb aboard the Knees Up Express once again, so I’m here to give you a couple of tips on how to get past the infamous Holiday Season Come down.
Make this (non-alcoholic) drink!
The lovely Renee from The Corner Hotel in Richmond made me the following during an evening I was visibly worse for wear after going a bit bananas the night before. Get a pint glass, pour in an entire can of Red Bull, fill the rest of the glass up with Coke, and add a slice of lemon and a splash of raspberry cordial before downing the motherchucker. Voila! Buh-bye hangover!
From the mouths of rock and rollers…
Ally Spazzy was once given the following tip on how to recover from serious partying by Ross from the Cosmic Psychos. According to him, the best way to get over particularly savage party-caused lethargy is to “down enough water until you feel like you’re going to throw up” and then go to sleep on a bed without pillows. Yes. I’ve never tried this myself but if people in the music scene can’t be relied upon to give us the heads up on ways to move on from a hangover, then who in this goddamn crazy world is there left to trust, I ask you?
Hair of the dog!
True, the last thing you want to look at after three weeks of solid pub-based gallivanting is a frothy beer, but sometimes downing a cold lager really is the only way to cure yourself of post-inebriation pain. You can do it!
And if all else fails…
I suggest therapy. Apparently there’s some sort of sweet government deal which means you get like, eight visits with a psychologist who probably earned their diploma by responding to an email from a university rep named Underachiever P. Postmortem for the price of an all day Metcard, although you may want to double check that as I am notorious for refusing to deal with “facts”. But here’s one thing I can tell you for sure. If you walk in for your session only to discover the person meant to be dealing with your fragmented noggin has a tapestry hanging from their office wall with the words “You Can’t Have Psycho-Analogy Without Anal!” lovingly cross-stitched upon it, it’s probably best to leave straight away. Trust me on this one.
Posted by Jess at January 24, 2007 10:45 AM— Filed under Common
Comments
i am particularly concerned when I see a psychotherapist with a tapestry reading:
I take the "the" out of psychotherapist.
Posted by: woodsman | January 24, 2007 12:14 PM
According to a reliable source* Ally Spazzy’s tip was that, as well as sculling the water and taking the pillows off the bed, you need to stick your leg out the side.
Now speaking as someone who’s woken up in a pool of their own vomit (better, at least, than someone else’s) this makes some sense. You need to not be lying on your back while you’re out, or you could drown. Yes, drown. (True, this would avoid the hangover, but it seems a little extreme.) The leg over the side thing would leave you probably either face down (OK) or face up (bad).
So my advice would be: down 2 glasses of water, chuck the pillows, and lie on the bed on your side. And hair of the dog? Try an omelette and toast instead...
Posted by: Al Cad | January 26, 2007 6:08 AM