firewhiskeyfic | “Whoops - My wand is a little over excited!”

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[fwf april 2024]

“Whoops - My wand is a little over excited!”

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Gilderoy Lockhart

Sex Ed

Honey

Birds of a Feather

Well-Bred

Total Eclipse (of the Heart)

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Torino plans to start with a Malibu Bay Breeze while Shelly is the designated driver tonight! ;)

Let's get our drunk on!

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Sounds delicious!

The beauty of FWF is also (at least for me) that you get to say "oh fuck it!" and just write something down and not think too much about what you write. :)
It's a fine cure against perfectionism, haha.
Due to time zones it also started officially at 11pm for me, so I couldn't stay for long either.
And remember: We also vote for the "least coherent fic". ;)

LOL I use that trick a lot. Halfway into a one-shot, not sure where to go, I know, I'll prep the doc for posting! Then I'm very proud of myself for accomplishing something. :D

That really would be awesome. It's also surprising I've never come across something similar. I mean, it's right there, ripe for the picking.

Good luck!

Monster energy drink + water before bed cures my hangovers before they start. I'm an RN who used to work ER & Monster has everything we used to put in the "banana bags" we hung for the drunks with the misfortune of being in ER. (Also once their blood level of alcohol comes back, if it's over the legal limit - 0.08 - we cannot legally discharge them until it goes down below the legal limit... there is a standard calculation that one loses 0.025 per hour once one stops drinking, which is 0.10 alcohol per every 4 hours.)

Anyhoo, banana bags are so called because after we injected the IV vitamins (thiamine, folic acid, + multivitamin), the bag turns yellow because of the B vitamins. Point is, Monster (or the Aldi equivalent, Gridlock) gas everything we put in the banana bags. Of course it has other stuff too, like caffeine, taurine, ginseng... that's just a bonus. The main thing is then vitamins; those are depleted by drinking.

So once I figured that out, drinking one or two Monsters before bed with equal amounts of water, always cured my hangovers before I got them. I hate hangovers too, so this is what I typically bring to any event where I know I'll be drinking, & likely to excess. Haven't had a hangover with drinking since - unless I forgot my Monsters.

Feel free to substitute any energy drink you prefer for Monster - as long as it's got at least the thiamine & folic acid. They often have B12 (cobolamin) to, which helps as well. Those are the main ones you want for hangover prevention. And drink extra water with 'em.

FRTDNEATJ, I couldn't start last night & I have a schedule conflict today requiring sobriety (have to drive, & also can't be writing).

Can I get my drink/420 on, & participate, tomorrow?

That's actually super interesting and maybe even helpful. LOL I'm not sure everyone can drink caffein before bed and sleep successfully but I'm absolutely going to give this a try.

Absolutely. As long as you submit an entry by midnight EDT Sunday, it's fine. (And realistically we aren't going to do anything with them at midnight so do with that information what you will. LOL)

Well, it always works for me, & I've been doing it for about 17 years.

It only happened because I had to work night shift in the ER (no seniority) from 7pm-7am & my friend & I began drinking Monster to stay awake.

One night when it slowed down around 3:30am, I was staring at the can of Monster & read the ingredients again & in a moment of clarity, I was like, "Hey, wait - this is like A BANANA BAG IN A CAN!!"

And the idea was born... because sometimes after really bad nights at work, we would go to 7am cop bars to drink after we got off work, but I would have to drive home & wouldn't want to be drunk drunkity drunk for the drive home. So I'd drink Monsters as my last drinks, & I found I was never hung over those days.

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You could also probably use those caffeine free energy drinks that are just liquid B vitamins in a little one shot bottle. I often see them at truck stops. Plus drink one glass of water per little bottle of B vitamins you drink, to prevent dehydration from excess drinking.

I just think of the caffeine, taurine, & ginseng as a bonus. 🙂

But you're right, not everyone can drink caffeine & then sleep... that is highly genetic... & it is in my genes. My mom drank coffee all day & night. She could have coffee at 9pm & go to sleep an hour later... & actually sleep. Snore, even.🙂

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I can drink a lot of caffeine and it barely registers while my husband and daughter won't be able to sleep at all. So bizarre!

Both my kids are college-ish age so I know a fair few people who will be getting this info. :D Thanks again!

Are you veggie/vegan?

(Day two: I am currently sober, but contemplating the leftover Mike's in the fridge and thinking about whether my "story" can still be saved.)

You have reminded me to take my "daily" vitamin (that I forget to take more than half the time).

I've never tried an energy drink at bedtime, but I often start the day with them. I wonder if that's part of why I've never been prone to hangovers?

Yeah, I remember Boone's Farm! And when I was in college what WE drank for cheap liquid alcoholic candy was Mogen David 20/20 which we called "Mad Dog 20/20". Even now, about half-a-century after my college years, you can still buy a bottle of MD 20/20 for under four dollars!

Have you ever looked at a copy of "Architectural Digest"? Either those dudes were in fact grown in a lab or else they came from another planet.

Yaaaaas! FWF goes until midnight Sunday!

I am a flexitarian omnivore...AND...all my home-cooking is vegetarian or vegan.

OMG Mad Dog 20/20 was something a friend and I, er, liberated from the local drug store and drank far too much of and I'm sure you can imagine the end result. Brutal.

Oh yeah, those wild Mad Dog 20/20 times. *snerk*

For real, there are always just basic human considerations missing from so many places. I can't realistically complain about my current apartment because it was, in fact, converted from being a 1920s hotel room. (zero counter space, a single closet for both clothes and cleaning supplies and general storage, and I have to awkwardly twist to reach the toilet paper roll which is mounted on the back wall behind me, etc)

But I've seen so many places that are otherwise upscale and are still missing basics like counter space, closet space, have awkward kitchens & bathrooms, have no flow around entrances so you can picture people having to say "excuse me" constantly to get around people in the kitchen to get out the back door, etc, etc. And, Lord, sound insulation. Can we please normalize sound insulation as a standard (not just luxury) feature? I don't want to always hear what my neighbors are up to.

And I don't understand "open" floorplans that mean no one in the home has any privacy at all. I think open floorplans were designed by single people who throw a lot of parties. That's the only scenario where they feel like they make sense. Do you want 30 or 40 people to be able to mill around while listening to the same music? Fine. Do you expect a family to share a space where one person is playing video games and another is trying to study and one is trying to work and one is trying to cook and one is trying to watch TV or listen to music? Chaos.

Fianlly oening my fic doc of what I wrote last night. Ready to continue. No, wiat, I think i'll have one more beer first. Wow, The Drunking taks place faster when I jusr open beers instwed of takin time to make ccktails. (Will parobably still make cocktails later tinight.)

From the state of the typos here, you are almost ready, I agree!

My neighbors and I all have ~almost the same house but some are more open than others. The original model was VERY open. We closed the dining room, with French doors and a door to the kitchen. Plus we have a separate living room/office and the TV or Great room. Other people that all is like an L shaped open space. One neighbor is kinda halfway between where they can have doors open or closed between the living and TV room. But as you say, if the TV is on, everyone on this floor can hear it if you can't shut the doors. That would drive me bonkers.

i like that phrase. I'm way way too lazy to be vegan. (Cant be bothered with reading all the labels. Also cheese is love. ) But I can see trying to cut down on meat overall.

I think I'm tdfunk enought to open up the fic and give finishign it a showt.

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flexitarian ominvore