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shotgunshooter3
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What are you drinking tonight?
shotgunshooter3
Posts: 6,112 Senior Member
I know, I know, it's the middle of the week... But still, I figure everyone is enjoying some sort of drink even if it's water.
Myself, tonight is a study night (real studying, not that other studying I always here about in college). I took one look at what I've got to do tonight and I knew it would be one of those nights. As such, I opened an ice cold Heineken (instead of my usual Shiner or Blue Moon) and it's hitting the spot.
Recently I also had a Blue Moon Pumpkin Ale, and that stuff is fantastic!
Myself, tonight is a study night (real studying, not that other studying I always here about in college). I took one look at what I've got to do tonight and I knew it would be one of those nights. As such, I opened an ice cold Heineken (instead of my usual Shiner or Blue Moon) and it's hitting the spot.
Recently I also had a Blue Moon Pumpkin Ale, and that stuff is fantastic!
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"Slow is smooth, smooth is fast, and speed is the economy of motion" - Scott Jedlinski
"Slow is smooth, smooth is fast, and speed is the economy of motion" - Scott Jedlinski
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At least, you didn't say Kool-Aid.:rotflmao:
I will fear no evil: For I carry a .308 and not a .270
Hey, what kind of talk is that????? Hey, before you drink it, would you box up that .50 Beowulf and send it to me :jester::jester: Now that ought to change your mind. :beer::angel:
And the doc's got me on the wagon for a while anyway. Better for my gizzard and better for the waistline too. Down to 182 from 236 in January.
I'll probably enjoy a Sam Smith's on my birthday but that's about it for a while.
take a look at the instructions on the bottle of meds. I'll bet it says "alcohol will intensify the effects". Doesn't that give you the green light? just kidding.
Same here. It's also a good leverage to help me moderate my alcohol intake overall, a good move, I think.
I remember only a few years ago, after work every day Mon-Thurs it was stopping by a tavern on the way home, 3-4 beers, then fast food, then home to chuff down the burger & fries with another couple beers. Friday after work it meant all evening at bars and driving home with one eye closed to focus. Saturday afternoons, big lunch w. margaritas or beer, then more beer afterward, into the evening.
Of course I also weighed 280 then and could barely breathe. Hitting a parked car (no police thankfully) put a bit of sense into my head, and then the biggie, the heart attack and bypass put the fear of God into me. Believe me, you do NOT want your sternum sawn in half and your chest cracked!
All this is sidebar but eventually I learned to moderate. After a lengthy period of zero alcohol, I realized that I could actually enjoy one or two nice imported beers or a margarita with dinner, and then put a cork in it. Part of this was my totally quitting drinking "just because I'm drinking", which for me means zero drinking at home alone, ever. I don't even enjoy that now.
Thankfully this change in alcohol consumption has stayed with me. In the past 5-6 years I think I've been tipsy maybe twice, if that, which for me means having consumed 4 beers in an evening or 2 maragaritas. That's happened rarely and there's no sign that it's gonna ever recur in larger quantity. Apparently I don't have the clinical need to quit totally and I still enjoy a good pale ale or IPA, but if the doc said to (or circumstances warranted) I could hang it up totally.
Gosh have I saved money, time, and worry! No more mysterious half-memories of driving home, no more spilled booze on the carpet, no more regrets of saying the wrong thing to a girlfriend or pal, and hey, no more size 44-46 jeans!
Drinking 1-2 per day is not harmful to anyone (unless you're genetically predisposed to alcoholism of course) and there's essentially zero long term effect to small amount consumption. My only caution is to keep a close watch. When those 2 bourbons become 3 or 4 and when it becomes more of a requirement or a "schedule" than a pleasure, be careful and tone it back a notch.
I'm getting off the soapbox now but some of you here in this forum will agree with me, I think, having themselves made the struggle.
"The Un-Tactical"
It's just that when (like excess food) the pleasure becomes a chore, it's time to pack it in.
And like Sam, I'd like to keep off the 40 pounds I dropped last year...
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Especially when mixed with,
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Water, over ice, and with a slice of lemon.
Ice and lemon are optional.
Gun control laws make about as much sense as taking ex-lax to cure a cough.
Gun control laws make about as much sense as taking ex-lax to cure a cough.
Barbarian....
Yes, I work for food.....cookies.....lasagna......cheesecakes.......
Denny