HOW TO SEIZE THE DAY (WITH A HANGOVER)


Yesterday could have very easily slipped into a ‘hide under a blanket’ kinda day. The type of day where only re-runs of Gossip Girl and Dr Pepper will do.

We’d been at a gig the night before, drunk a fair amount and pigged out on chicken pie slices at 3am. Rock & roll, we are. We awoke yesterday morning with fuzzy heads, dry mouths but the absolute desire to do something with our Saturday.

Because no one likes wasting their precious weekend right?

Today I’m telling you how to be rock & roll and still get good use out of your weekend. Y’know, drink all the beer but don’t miss the day kinda thing.

(This is for mild hangovers only. Not like these hangovers here. Those require a different approach altogether).

Here’s how to seize the day on a fuzzy head hangover:

 

GET UP

Don’t be fooled into thinking that lounging in bed will make you feel a million dollars. It won’t.

It will make you feel lazy and yucky and ‘wow is that my own breath I can smell’. It’s not pretty.

The first step to seizing your day is getting out of bed and making yourself at least look half human. (Fake it until you make it babes).

Top tip; do brush your hair. You are not a cave woman.

 

GET OUT

The best thing for a hangover is to get out into the fresh air. Don’t get house bound (that’s when the desire to crawl under a blanket and hide underneath a family sized tin of celebrations kicks in. Avoid at all costs). 

Make a plan & leave the house behind.

Max & I decided to head to Hadleigh Castle, a beautiful walking track surrounding the ruins of an old Essex castle. We walked for over an hour until I was sure my feet would fall off and there were icicles from my nose (in a good way, obvs)

Top tip; The fresh air is your best pal. The breeze will literally obliterate the hangover goblin lurking on your back. Take that, you cheeky rascal. 

 

GET SOME PURPOSE

If you’re finding the second step pretty difficult, find a really ace reason to leave the house (Must visit my grandparents/get some new plants for the garden/head to Topshop to buy everything in leopard print). 

We went and dog napped some of our favourite furry hounds to give our walk the purpose it needed. Enter Hendrix the Frenchie & Dylan the Lurcher; the Tasmanian devil dogs with the most insane amount of energy.

They wanted to walk and walk and walk and walk, so we did. In fact, we walked all the way to Leigh Broadway. A pretty sweet place to end up actually (all the eaterys & bookshops & boutiques hurrah).

Top tip; Buy a dog. They are guaranteed nuggets of purposefulness. 

 

GET SOME FOOD

Feed your hangover like you’d feed a baby – regularly. (Lols, like heck do I know what a baby needs)

Drink all the coffee & eat all the cake, on the hour every hour.

Max & I headed to an old time fave of ours on the Leigh Broadway, Stop the World. A retro eatery serving good grub and the biggest, tastiest slabs of cake ever.

Oh and all the hot, hot tea and all the hot, hot coffee. Sitting outside with the mutts was a tad on the chilly nipple side, y’know?

Forget ago on toast you need carbs babes. All the freakin’ carbs and eats and meat.

Top tip; Don’t get hangry. You don’t want a ‘hanger meltdown’ ruining your day.

 

Once you’ve completed these 4 steps you’ll *probably* be ready for another wild night out. Rock & roll right there.

Hope you’ve all had top notch weekends full of fireworks and partying till your hearts content.