Since I decided to lose some weight, I’ve drank nothing but vodka & diet coke.

Trouble is, vodka effects me differently from beer in two main ways

1) less calories, smaller belt size

2) it entirely wipes my memory of the night.

For the past 3 months, I pretty much don’t remember *anything* from 9pm onwards on a weekend (and sometimes weekday).

I used to dread looking at my phone in the mornings, and seeing texts I’d sent whilst drunk.  Now I pretty much rely on them to try to reconstruct my night.

Last week, after drinking in my local, I went back to a house party.  The only reason I know this is because in the morning I found a text I sent at 5am to a friend saying:

“Ok, am entirely lost on an estate somewhere, to get back to Swinton do I head towards or away from the sun?”

This weekend i was in Blackpool for the Decalogy con, again don’t remember pretty much anything of Thursday to Sunday nights.  Which I don’t mind cos I seem to have been having fun, (other than getting banned from the con), but I *know* I’ve had conversations with people that I’d really like to remember.

It occurred to me on Saturday that a good thing to do, would be to use my mobile to record a video diary every hour or so, just saying what I’ve been doing for the past hour.  Then in the morning I could properly reconstruct my evening.  I also thought it would probably make funny enough viewing to post up here.  Unfortunately I got drunk and entirely forgot to do it every night since then.  It’s something I do intend to do, when I remember!

As usual was a good weekend, we went 80’s style again on the Friday, and superheroes on the Saturday.  Although am starting to think my Clark Kent costume is a bit of a cop out!

Am now busy scouring other peoples websites for additional photos of me I can use to reconstruct my weekend!