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After spending an entire week with my parents on Marco Island, I didn’t think it necessary to drive back to Michigan for Easter this past weekend. In hindsight, it would have been beneficial to my mental and physical health to have driven home, but hindsight is bullshit. I stayed in Chicago and drank myself into a stupor both Friday and Saturday night. I have a few regrets and I spent more than I should have but whatever. I’m not all that bothered by it and I’m not going to lose sleep over any of this.
Friday
What I Spent:
– 2017 Criterion Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon, $14.99
– 2018 El Terrano Tempranillo, $10.99
– Whole Foods Orange Chicken bowl, $9.00
– Komorebi Sushi, $37.63
– 4 vodka sodas, $42.00
– 4 rail tequila shots, $30.00
– 4 Oberon beers, $20.00
The past few months, a Friday night in Chicago for me means eating sushi. I do this with my girlfriend at the end of the week because the city has a million different sushi spots littered all over the place. It gives me something to look forward to at the end of a long week, plus it’s fun to judge a new sushi restaurant against a place that I have tried in the past. I also love eating sushi so it’s a real win-win for me. This weekend I picked a place called Komorebi. It was BYOB, so on Friday around 1:00 p.m. I sauntered over to Whole Foods to grab a couple bottles of red wine. While there, I treated myself to an orange chicken bowl from the Whole Foods cafeteria and people watched for about an hour.
How I Saved:
My girlfriend and I ended up going to this sushi restaurant with another couple and we split the bill four ways. We probably ended up ordering eight or nine sushi rolls and the BYOB thing really helped out. I wasn’t a huge fan of the El Terrano Tempranillo, but for eleven dollars I can’t really put up too much of a fuss about it.
Where I Should’ve Saved:
You see those the last three itemized deductions that I conveniently left out of this description until now? I ended up doing a little mini-bar crawl following the sushi dinner with that other couple. We each traded buying rounds for one another until 2:30 in the morning, and all I can tell you is that the four tequila shots were ill-advised.
One of the girls I was with threw up all over an innocent bystander about ten seconds after taking said tequila shot. Shockingly enough, she did not get kicked out of the bar we were at as it was filled to the brim with undergraduate students and I think that sort of thing just happens when you willingly choose to go to a bar like we were at. Why was I at a college bar drinking rail tequila? The world may never know. At some point after sushi we, as a group, thought it would be fun to mix it up with a crowd slightly younger than us. It was not that fun.
Saturday
What I Spent:
– 4 Bud Light “Stadium Cups,” $32.00
– 2 Moscow Mules, $24.00
– Chicken Nachos, $18.00
In case you weren’t aware, the Final Four was played last Saturday night. It’s never fun watching a rival sports team make a run in the NCAA tournament, but it is a whole ‘nother animal to watch a rival team win their Final Four matchup inside of a bar filled to the brim with that team’s fans. On Saturday night, I was subjected to what some would consider cruel and unusual punishment. My girlfriend, an alumnus of the University of Michigan, took me to a Michigan bar to watch their game on Saturday.
The only thing I could do was drink, and drink I did. I was documented on multiple social media platforms being one of the drunkest people in the bar. I was an IG thot on Saturday, boomeranging and dancing my face off for the cameras. It was also an attempt to distract me from the fact that I was surrounded by the worst people on planet earth: Michigan fans.
How I Saved:
After Michigan won their game against a fucking 11-seed and cemented their spot in the National Championship (not having played a single team seeded higher than fifth the entire tournament) the bar I was at was mass chaos. Shots and beers were ordered with reckless abandon by people that I didn’t know or care to meet. I was handed a shot and two beers without even being asked if I wanted them, and I gladly drank the free drinks to ease the pain of watching the team I hate the most in the entire world celebrate. I also went home after the end of the first game and watched the second from the comfort of my own home. I didn’t spend a dime after leaving Diag Bar & Grill.
Where I Should’ve Saved:
I’m not going to apologize for ordering the chicken nachos, okay? They were a revelation after four Bud Lights, and they really helped me when I decided to make the switch to Moscow Mules for the second half of the game. Probably didn’t need to drink as much as I did on Saturday evening, but I’m rationalizing this behavior by telling myself that the only possible way to get through watching that game where I did was to do it incredibly drunk.
Sunday
What I Spent:
– Groceries for the week, $57.72
– Jet’s Pizza, $24.00
Since I consider myself a lapsed Catholic, I saw no reason to attend church on Easter Sunday. I woke up, went to the gym to try and burn off the calories from two straight days of binge drinking, and then went to the grocery store to stock up on items for the week.
How I Saved:
I resisted the temptation to get brunch with a bunch of other people who weren’t spending the day with family members. After the grocery store/gym trip, I plopped my ass on the couch and didn’t move for the remainder of the day.
Where I Should’ve Saved:
Ordering a Jet’s Pizza late in the afternoon yesterday was not one of my best ideas. I could have easily cooked up a healthy meal for myself with the groceries I had bought a few hours prior, but I couldn’t get deep dish pizza off of my mind. It was delicious, but definitely not needed. I’ll try and do better going forward. All in all, it was a fairly expensive weekend. Lots of bad purchases made but that’s the price of doing business. Let’s go Villanova Wildcats.
Total: $320.33 .
Image via YouTube
Nothing like being drunk at a rival bar talking unwarranted shit.
This is just a not well thought idea, and I have no clue how to manage or finagle it, but it’d be cool if PGP could do a segment of this article and utilize the readers in this topic as well.
It’d be cool.
Again, I don’t know about any of the logistics behind it, I just have cool thoughts sometimes.
I volunteer as tribute
Going to Diag for a big Michigan game sounds like hell on Earth. It’s funny what guys will do for sex.
Was there during the Michigan hockey game and before the basketball game last weekend and it wasn’t that bad
Look like Frank from Shameless, 20 years ago, in the stock photo
Goes with the inflatable mattress motif
Red wine with fish? You’re a monster
Let’s fucking go Cats tho!
This is peak Duda
$10 a drink??? $7.50 a well shot at a college bar!? Thats highway robbery! Thankfully my Central Fl bars are reasonably priced or I’d be broke af.
Duda, what bar were you at where the girl yacked?
“I have a few regrets and I spent more than I should have but whatever. I’m not all that bothered by it and I’m not going to lose sleep over any of this.”
This is the new motto I’m striving to live by.