AF Daily Friday 12/2
Hello friends,
Okay, Sunny--bend over!!
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I feel for you winos. I really do. Wine is so overly-glamorized, don't you think? There are so many kinds, colors, flavors. In pretty bottles, with pretty labels, with beautiful racks and cool stoppers you can buy. There are even charms and the beautiful crystal wine glasses! There are wines you drink with certain things, there are a gagillion flavors. Even if you hate alcohol you can force yourself to drink wine, cuz it's cool that way. Wine is sacred. Wine is THE celebration drink. EVERYONE drinks wine.
I've been here at MWO for quite a while, and I'll bet if we took a poll--the majority of the people here would choose wine as their poison of choice. Maybe DG could chime in here on any statistics. So I think many of the winos (or ex winos) probably have an extremely difficult time quitting because of the emotional and glamorized and traditional aspects of the wine. I mean some people have it at every gathering. It makes a great gift. Honestly, I really do feel for you. Now me, I would drink wine if it was offered, or appropriate, or if I was out of beer. I like the taste of the cheap wine, I could drink it like water. It also gave me heartburn, and the hangovers were hell.
I mean, yes, those beer commercials are tempting to me--especially those ice cold bud light or bud light lime bottles. But I think the wine thing must be harder. You also have all those studies that tell us wine is good for you....in moderation. Well, so is grape juice, so why don't we hear that so much?
I have a friend that is having a difficult time. She said she might go home and have a glass of wine before attending the basketball game tonight. I pictured myself trying that--not that I want to try that--just pictured what that would look like. There is no way, I could stop at one glass. NO WAY. So, you see. Those of us here that have decided to be AF, cannot romanticize about that glass of wine, or bottle of beer. It just gets us in trouble. It is so not worth it. I mean think about it. ONE GLASS??? Just remember the bad things about it. The cotton mouth, the headache, all the regrets you have from drinking it that caused you to want to quit in the first place.:l
I'm headed to basketball. No AL wine or otherwise there!:h
Hello friends,
Okay, Sunny--bend over!!
uch::batI feel for you winos. I really do. Wine is so overly-glamorized, don't you think? There are so many kinds, colors, flavors. In pretty bottles, with pretty labels, with beautiful racks and cool stoppers you can buy. There are even charms and the beautiful crystal wine glasses! There are wines you drink with certain things, there are a gagillion flavors. Even if you hate alcohol you can force yourself to drink wine, cuz it's cool that way. Wine is sacred. Wine is THE celebration drink. EVERYONE drinks wine.
I've been here at MWO for quite a while, and I'll bet if we took a poll--the majority of the people here would choose wine as their poison of choice. Maybe DG could chime in here on any statistics. So I think many of the winos (or ex winos) probably have an extremely difficult time quitting because of the emotional and glamorized and traditional aspects of the wine. I mean some people have it at every gathering. It makes a great gift. Honestly, I really do feel for you. Now me, I would drink wine if it was offered, or appropriate, or if I was out of beer. I like the taste of the cheap wine, I could drink it like water. It also gave me heartburn, and the hangovers were hell.
I mean, yes, those beer commercials are tempting to me--especially those ice cold bud light or bud light lime bottles. But I think the wine thing must be harder. You also have all those studies that tell us wine is good for you....in moderation. Well, so is grape juice, so why don't we hear that so much?
I have a friend that is having a difficult time. She said she might go home and have a glass of wine before attending the basketball game tonight. I pictured myself trying that--not that I want to try that--just pictured what that would look like. There is no way, I could stop at one glass. NO WAY. So, you see. Those of us here that have decided to be AF, cannot romanticize about that glass of wine, or bottle of beer. It just gets us in trouble. It is so not worth it. I mean think about it. ONE GLASS??? Just remember the bad things about it. The cotton mouth, the headache, all the regrets you have from drinking it that caused you to want to quit in the first place.:l
I'm headed to basketball. No AL wine or otherwise there!:h
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