Perseverence

You know how you suddenly find yourself saying ' I'm just not gonna drink for a while. I'm just taking some time off...' and find that people are looking at you weird and you're trailing off knowing that as soon as you forget why you've promised yourself this, you'll be out with the girls downing vodka shots and daquiris?
I don't know how it is with everybody else. No, wait. Wait. I do. This happens at every New Year/Holiday with almost everyone I know.
It's not like I drink particularly ridiculous amounts. Ah, who am I kidding? Me and my friends are a bunch of closet drunks. I'm especially jealous of my friend Maria. She's this tiny girl who apparently has one hollow leg. She ends up hauling my ass/dressing me back up wherever we go. Good times!
The point being, I'm fairly disappointed in myself. I used to have bad ass alcohol tolerance, but lately I'm finding that the whole getting-pissed-and-doing-ungodly-embarassing-things is happening a bit too early in the night for my liking. Not only that. I then proceed to pass out for the rest of the night while my friends stumble about and trip on me several times a night.
The problem, people, are the so called ' time offs'. They're bad for your health. Honest to God, your alcohol tolerance to intake ratio lowers to a point where you start waking up disoriented in some friend's bed, stripped down to your underwear for whatever reason, sporting bruises you didn't even work hard for, with your mouth tasting like ass , an empty bucket conveniently placed next to the bed and barf on the floor.
It's embaressing I tell you.
SO what I'm going to is this... instead of giving up so easily next time, instead of giving myself a 'break', I'm going to try harder . Up myself to the 'Advanced Drinker' status. This is very necessary for a girl in this day and age... You never know when some creep will try to get in your pants by getting you drunk off your ass. Or when the next game of 'I Never' will take place. Or Strip Poker. You get the drift. A girl needs to be prepared. Preseverence is key...