"Alcohol my favorite accessory, alcohol alternative to feeling like myself, Oh alcohol I still drink to your health!"
That's ripped from one of my favorite songs by the BNL, the best band in the universe (in my opinion), talking to a friend recently she told me a story about her friend who is like me, a big girl , who accessorises, so now one of my favorite catchphrases is, "I'm a big girl, we accessorise!"
And on that point I know I use alcohol as an accessory, I also know this is a bad thing!
While I was pregnant and not drinking I really became aware of using booze as an accessory, I avoided those "friends" I always drank around, cos a lot of the time the reason I drank in their company was to make them more tolerable or interesting. There were those awful nights out with people where the drunk talk was so awful I wanted to puncture my ear drums! It was very much the episode of the Simpsons where Barney is the designated driver, that was me, pregnant, moody, sober dropping people home while they talked sweet, sweet drunk talk!
I think my little guy was three weeks old when I had my first glass of wine in eight months (first month of pregnancy as I didn't know I'd a bun in the oven , I was still living la Vida Loca) It tasted amazing, and then the little buzz, the lovely mellowness! Now my drink of preference is red wine, but that's only in recent years, over the years I've drunk lots of different things and they all sum up different stages in my life, and they all have different effects on me!
As a teenager my first drink was cans of Ritz, we'd buy a supercan of coke (remember those) empty out the coke and decant the Ritz into the super can so we could sip it openly. Then I progressed to (gulp) Bacardi and coke (even thinking about this makes my stomach turn), my Debs was a Bacardi fuelled fest of ballgowns and sweaty mirror walls (Tamangos). Then the student years of Guinness, or if we were flush a bottle of vodka (so cheap it was like drain cleaner) drunk in shot form cos no matter what you mixed it with it was rough. At twenty I left home and moved in with my partner, there followed party after party, we had wine nights, beer nights and our favorite cocktail nights, where each person brought a bottle and we made all sorts of concoctions, one lasted twelve hours! Cider was a sitting in the local drink and southern comfort and Jack Daniels have featured as my luxury drinks over my twenties and early thirties!
As for the effects, (not health effects, I'm very aware of them - too much so sometimes, it would be better not to think about my liver or brain...."help Us!") But the effects on my mood. On Sunday some friends came over, I had a few pints of cider, hubby had a few whiskeys, about midnight he made a comment, I flew up the stairs to bed. A row followed, I was acting very out of character, the cider made me crazy!
Wine as I've mentioned makes me mellow, quite relaxed and calm... I wouldn't be dancing on the tables after a night on the grape. Tequila and vodka kinda speed me up, it's party fuel! Beer is a nice drink for a long day, it's a slow gentle buzz, no surprises, but Guinness? Oh god, it makes me totally crazy, like I'm a silly student again! The worst drink for me is Southern Comfort....or "the Great Leg Opener" as we call it in my house....seriously, that warming feeling just keeps on going down south when I drink Suddy!
So booze is an accessory and like flats or high heels, I pick and choose what suits the occasion and my mood, what would AA say?
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Finally someone else who has the same allergy to Southern Comfort on the rocks! It's an affliction.
never said it had to on the rocks.....it just has to be there!
Finally! Another person who remembers the Supercan! I have been trying to explain these to several people and they all think Im lying! My mom used to give us each a Supercan if we were going on a school tour, that was the only time. Dont quite understand the reason or logic, but I imagine there must have been something to it. Oh they were such a special treat! Wish I thought of filling them with alcohol, in my day I used to throw a few cans of ritz into a bush whenever I got my hands on some and then I would go home, get glammed up and then drink them in the bush on the way to the disco! Hurrah! Those were the days...!
Finally! Another person who remembers the Supercan! I have been trying to explain these to several people and they all think Im lying! My mom used to give us each a Supercan if we were going on a school tour, that was the only time. Dont quite understand the reason or logic, but I imagine there must have been something to it. Oh they were such a special treat! Wish I thought of filling them with alcohol, in my day I used to throw a few cans of ritz into a bush whenever I got my hands on some and then I would go home, get glammed up and then drink them in the bush on the way to the disco! Hurrah! Those were the days...!
How much was in them...I think it was 500ml, in fact the same amount as a beer can, maybe that's why they took them off the market? I only ever did the public drinking in this sneaky way! I'm thinking of having a can of Ritz at the weekend...just for old times sake!
Bleh - I got seriously sick on Ritz for the first time - can't imagine smelling it again, let alone drinking it.. urggg.. and it was Babycham we were after in the first place.
OH so funny! Mum drank one babycham a year...total non drinker! so the idea of drinking it....no! :-}
Well, in the end, I never actually did - never had one in my life!
I saw a recipe for a fab sounding cocktail in the mag i nhte hairdresser's yesterday, though. Vodka, strawberry liquer, strawberry pulp, pineapple juice and champagne. And a lime wedge s omewhere in there. Mmmmm I crave cocktails when I'm pregnant...
yummy Jo! not too long now, you can have as many cocktails as your liver can bear
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