
Last Wednesday, I took off half a day of work to go to the Mayhem Metal Festival at the Virginia Beach Amphitheater with Todd, Big Kev and Nadine. We had a lot of fun last year, so we decided to do it again. The day started out great… both Todd and Kevin had to work a little bit later, so Nadine and I decided to start drinking while we waited. She had some rum at the house, so we had about three rum and diet cokes before hitting the road… we already felt a little light headed, me especially since I had not eaten anything yet that day.

Things were going great, once inside, we had to go find my co-worker Bill to get our liquor. Bill works with me during the day, and heads up Live Nation Security at the Amphitheater on the side… so the day before the show, I emptied two bottles of rum (one for me and one for Nadine) into water bottles and had him take them in for me, so that Nadine and I could just buy diet sodas all day long and mix our own drinks, instead of paying $12 per Beer through the Amphitheater. There we are up there with our first “mix your own” Amphitheater drinks… see how happy we are?

Flash forward a couple hours and Nadine and I are getting pretty tanked. We still have not eaten a lick of food and the boys are really not drinking at all, because they both have to be in to work on Thursday morning. Well I do too, but apparently I did not care like they did. Bill, my buddy from work, had given us all wristbands to get down in front of the stage, so not only were our ears ringing, but Nadine and I just kept on drinking. What made it worse was we were drinking the mixed drinks, and then kept forgetting that the water bottles had rum in them, and it was so hot out, we kept catching ourselves swigging from the “water bottles” only to be reminded “SHIT… that’s not water… oh well… we’re drunk… hahaha!”

Now, by about 9pm - WE WERE TRASHED… but not sick trashed, just obnoxious, retarded trashed. The kind of trashed where you are posing in pictures with the people that ARE sick trashed because you think that shit is HILARIOUS. Little did I know that about twenty minutes after the above photo was taken - I WOULD BE THAT TRASHED. I do not know exactly when it hit and I do not remember ANYTHING after it hit… but basically I was DONE. According to Todd and Big Kev, I was incoherent, I was throwing up (pure liquor as I had no food in my system) all over Todd, I kept trying to lay down and sleep, I was a mess basically and every time Todd tried to help me I just kept saying “would you please just leave me the f*ck alone… could everyone please just back the f*ck off”. I do not remember sleeping on the grassy knoll at the Amphitheater, I do not remember the ride going home, I do not remember going in Nadine’s house, I don’t remember ANYTHING. I did wake up on Nadine’s couch at 5am, with my skirt undone and down around my thighs (according to Todd that was from Nadine “trying to make me comfortable”), a wet washcloth on my head, a throw-up bowl laying next to me and Nadine’s dog laying on top of me. Todd said that Nadine, after getting me comfortable, went upstairs and came down to the kitchen in a shirt and her underwear and was ready to chill with Todd and Kevin and eat corn chips and guacamole… he said that was hilarious.
I have not been that drunk since I was probably 22. I never NOT REMEMBER stuff and I RARELY puke. I usually know when I have hit the wall and am DONE. This time… I leapt so far over the wall it was not even funny, I did not even know the wall was there. I still had to drive home from Nadine’s and get showered and go into work… which SUCKED. I was still drunk till about 2pm, when my hangover finally set in. It took me DAYS to recover from this. But I had fun!!! Can’t wait to do it again next year.
UPDATE:
Nadine just emailed me some photos from her camera that Big Kev snapped of us… HOLY HELLS BELLS… FUNNY!!!

Nadine and I in one of the vendor tents hovering over a little fan they had in there blowing cold air up our skirts onto our hooha’s! I love that the guy next to us is just looking for t-shirts like we are not even there.

Complete retards… and we are okay with that.

Yeah… I am trashed here. I cannot even open my eyes - I am just doing whatever they are telling the crowd to do… and swaying to try and not fall down. So funny.