I am thinking of taking up drinking again. Drinking alcohol that is.
I’ve been pretty much a teetotaller (I had to google that word to see how to spell it and found a great wikipedia entry for it! There are just so many things I don’t know!) since my middle twenties. Back then, in my wayward youth (stop reading now Mum), I discovered that drinking until I vomited suddenly started to have much worse after effects than just a regular hangover. When you are young, drinking to excess on the weekends with a large group of friends and strangers is, of course, the only way to consume alcohol, so when that suddenly wasn’t fun any more I just stopped. Better to be sober and having fun than have one glass and want to keep on drinking, right?
I’ve had the odd drink here or there in the last um… 10 or so years (Who is busy doing the maths? Let me help you… 35) more to be polite than anything else and I will admit to having moments when I would have liked to get totally sloshed but I knew it just wasn’t worth the bother and for the most part it has been a non-issue. So why, now… in my ‘middle years’ …. am I suddenly thinking about alcohol?
Mid-life crisis! I can hear my father yelling it at his computer screen already, but no that’s not it….
I’m just curious. Lately I keep wondering what a little tequila buzz might do for my stress levels. Maybe the odd Mararita, a ‘Muppet’ (tequila and lemonade) or a tequila sunrise perhaps? (Yes yes I am a tequila fan – why waste time with the soft stuff when you can go straight to the crisp clear spirits? Plus I have a thing for Mexican food at the moment.) They might slow down my brain, make it chill out a bit. Switch off the over bearing parent part just for a moment or two… or three?
Another lure of inebriation is the social side. I am not thinking of buying my bottle of tequila at the supermarket with three screaming kids in tow and draining it on the couch while letting the kids brains be sucked out of their heads by watching yet another Disney princess movie. No, that’s not my idea of fun. It’s the daydream of a bunch of friends sitting around consuming nachos and a few margaritas together and giggling like school girls over nothing in particular that is strangely appealing right now…
Perhaps that is because with the ‘small child who never sleeps’ around, it is pretty much an impossible dream. Still it a slight tequila buzz seems like a nice place to be right now, who knows maybe it will flow through to my milk and make him sleep a bit?
I’ll make the Nachos who is bringing the tequila?
Well, you know I can bring you some pretty good tequila!!! I actually am not a huge fan of tequila (doesn’t everyone have a horror tequila story from their youth?) but I am reliably informed that the tequila we buy in Mexico is far better than the paint stripper you get back here.
I haven’t been drinking much in the last few years either what with pregnancies, breastfeeding etc. We are going to a wedding though on Saturday which is walking distance from where we’re staying and the kids are staying with their grandparents over night…. Sunday could be painful!
I say go for it!
I wouldn’t call myself a major drinker, but I still like to go out & have a couple once in a while.
It took me a long time to be able to realize when I’ve had enough, and am about to cross that line from tipsy to drunk! So usually there are no major hangovers; you’re right, they get so much worse as you get older!
Hugs!
(Oh, and I finally got around to putting you on my blogroll! I’m such a slacker!)
I’ll join you in a lick, sip, suck! You know, lick the salt, sip the tequila, suck the lemon – did you ever do that? Bleurgh, getting cold shivers from the memories of doing that when I was younger! LOL
Happy to make you some great cocktails anyday :D
I am not so much a fan of tequila, but to unwind at the end of this particular week, I could with one of those fishbowl sized margaritas. You have such a great humorous writing style. Will be popping in lots to see what you are up to and if there are any hang overs:).
Cheers for the link.
I have a little wine some nights when the whining gets too much hehe.
AS long as you only drink in moderation – time it straight after a feed and leave a few hours before the next.
I keep planning to try a real cocktail but by the time I put kids to bed … I forget ooops.
I don’t think I did Tequila but there is a first time for everything hey !
How bizarre, as I am sharing your dream at the moment, not to go stupid, but just a couple with some friends just seems awfully appealing for some reason :)