Mahalo Steve...Keep up the good recovery and keep brining it here to help us also.
I also had coffee and grapefruit juice and just recently a diet Coke at Jack's (in the box that is). It's been a good Christmas although I still cannot for the life of me pick out a gift for my wife and won't chance the "return routine" with her. Only because it's better if'n she picks the one (or two or three LOL) on her own.
Happy Holidays to you all from the Pacific Isles. (((hugs)))
"How come you don't drink anymore?" a renewed acquaintance from long ago asked the other day. "Anymore than who?, I asked. "I mean any longer. How come you don't drink anything these days?" "Drink? I drink...coffee, milk, juice, tea, soda pop, water..."
"I mean drink" he said. " you know, booze." "Oh, booze, No I don't drink booze any more, you're right," I said, I couldn't' trust it anymore. It turned on me. Once my friend, it became my enemy."
"Maybe you got a bad batch." he said.
"No the sauce is the same. I changed. Because I have this illness of alcoholism, my tolerance weakened. Alcoholism doesn't come in bottles, it comes in people."
"Sounds pretty confusing" the fellow said
"You think you're confused," I said, "You should have seen me. I drank for happiness and became unhappy... I drank for joy and became miserable... I drank to be outgoing and became self centered... I drank for sociability and became argumentative and lonely." I drank for sophistication and became crude and obnoxious...I drank for friendship and made enemies... I drank to soften sorrow and wallowed in self pity... I drank for sleep and wakened without rest.
I drank for strength and felt weak.. I drank medicinally and got sick.. I drank because I thought my job called for it and I lost my job.. I drank for relaxation and got the shakes.. I drank for confidence and became uncertain.. I drank for courage and became afraid.. I drank for assurance and became doubtful... I drank to stimulate thought and blacked out... I drank to make conversation and it tied my tongue... I drank for warmth and lost my cool. I drank for coolness and lost my warmth... I drank to feel heaven and came to know hell. I drank to forget and became haunted. I drank for freedom and became a slave...I drank to erase problems and saw them multiply... I drank to cope with life and invited death ..or worse... I drank because I had the right and everything turned out wrong..
"Gosh!" My friend exclaimed, "That must have taken a bunch of booze to get you in that shape. "Just one" I told him, "The first one. For me one is too many, and a thousand is not enough." "So that is why you don't drink anymore...?
"Yep, I make it a rule, I DON'T DRINK WHILE I'M SOBER!"
