What a lazy weekend. I really didn't do anything, other than sit on my ass and watch TV.

I had 5 beers a day for a total of 15 for the weekend. Not bad. It was Miller Genuine Draft so I'm sure that technically means I only had 10 beers all weekend.

My cold/flu is really hanging on. Although most of my symptoms have disappeared, I have this cough that sounds disgusting and feels like hell. It seems to be on it's way out, though.

One positive I can take out of having this evil sickness is I haven't had a cigarette in probably 3 weeks. You should see the shit I've been coughing up! I'm sure the incessant coughing is actually good for my lungs as it expedites the whole process.

Day 258

Drinks in past 24 hours: 1

I'm staying relatively upbeat, considering the last few weeks I've had. I'll try not to bore anyone with the details, but basically I was working 3 people's jobs at work and it sucked.

So you can imagine how pumped I was for my buddy's party on Friday night, eh? Yeah, I was fucking pumped. So what happened? I got the flu! Yeah, I got the same fucking flu that I had 2 weeks ago, only this time it was worse!

End result: my weekend was a fucking bust. I had to sit around my apartment all weekend watching movies I'd never watch if I had better things to do with my time**.

I haven't really felt like having any beers since this evil virus invaded my body, but I managed to down one on Saturday and one last night. I know, I'm a party animal.

Now I've only got a mild headache and a dry cough, so I'll try to have a couple beers tonight.


** The movies? So I Married An Axe Murderer, Death Wish (actually pretty good, it's got Charles Bronson in it), and a couple others I can't remember. Maybe I hallucinated the others due to my fever and the fact my head felt like a pressure cooker.

Day 239

Drinks in past 24 hours: 2
This week: 26
Avg/day: 3.7

Still slacking a bit with the posts, so I apologize. This week has been pretty good, actually. Like I said last week, I bought a case of 24 on Tuesday. It panned out like this:

Tue: 5.5
Wed: 7
Thu: 4
Fri: 5
Sat: 2

So that was my case & it lasted 5 days. Don't laugh, it used to take me 3 or 4 to polish one off. Side note: polish (PAW-lish) is spelled the same as the nationality of people from Poland.

Unfortunately, I picked up the flu on Friday & had to leave work early. My weekend consisted of me laying on my couch watching old cartoons and playing video games. I felt awful.

So I didn't have any drinks on Sunday or Monday, other than water and ginger ale. Actually, that's a lie, I remember making one of my ginger ales a rum and ginger ale on Monday. Hey, I'm only human.

Last night I started feeling a bit better, so my girlfriend and I went grocery shopping and picked up some paint for the dining room. I can't remember the name of the colour, but it's a light blue. If I had to name it, I'd call it Robin's Egg Blue. That's got a nice ring to it.

I pretty much can't stand grocery shopping. To me, it's almost like a challenge. It's something to get out of the way, so I like to breeze through the aisles and grab what I need while still pushing the cart. I shit you not, I can do all my grocery shopping in about 5 minutes. My girlfriend, on the other hand, loves grocery shopping. She'll spend 5 minutes deciding what kind of potatoes she wants. It takes almost an hour to shop her way, so I kind of have to grin and bear it. Yesterday wasn't too bad, though. I got a new debit card (old one was broken) and grabbed a 6-pack for the Leafs game while she was making her way through the produce section.

Damn you woulda been proud of me. I only had 2 beers all night, and there was a hockey game on! That's like a world record or something.

So now I've got 4 in the fridge, which will likely be gone by tomorrow. The good news? My beers per day average this week was only 3.7.

Hopefully I can regain full health by the weekend for St. Patty's day festivities. My beers per day average will likely be shot to hell, so stay tuned.

Cheers.

Day 233

Drinks consumed*: 7
*In past 24 hours

I had a beer with lunch yesterday, then had 6 in the evening while watching TV.

Today I had a Coke with my lunch, didn't much feel like a beer. I think I've got a cold coming on - or worse, the flu. I'm coughing a lot and my throat is feeling dryer by the day. It could also be because I snuck in a few cigarettes this week.

Tonight I get to relax by myself as my girlfriend is at work. The Leafs play the Bruins tonight, so they'll lose, but I get to watch it anyway. Shoot, I just remembered I promised to build the Ikea cabinet we bought a few weeks ago.

I can't even have beers tonight because I've gotta pick up my girlfriend from work at 10pm. Well, that's not true, I just can't have too many beers tonight. I know from my Smart Serve training that a man of my height and weight can have 3 beers in one hour before being legally too drunk to drive. I'll probably have 3 over the course of 3 or 4 hours, with dinner and water thrown in for good measure.

I'm thinking about buying the non-alcohol beer from the grocery store so I can get the taste of beer without the compromising side effects of real beer (aka "the fun part"). Because I've noticed it's not that I drink to get drunk, I just really love beer. If I was drinking to get drunk, I'd have 10-15 beers a night, or skip the whole step and buy a 12oz bottle of whisky each day. If I don't have beer in the house, I don't substitute it with other booze - or worse, mouthwash. The other week I didn't have beer in the house for around 4-5 days and I think I might have made ONE drink one night just because we had the ingredients for something fruity.

Shit, who knows why I'm rambling on. Trying to convince myself I'm not an alcoholic maybe? Making excuses? Maybe I'm just holding myself to a higher standard than most. God knows my buddies get wasted near-on every night.

Ah the experiment continues. Maybe next week I'll abstain. Partly to see if I can go a week without booze, and partly because next weekend is St. Patty's so I've gotta give my liver a rest!

Haha, cheers.

Day 232

Drinks consumed*: 5.5
*In last 24 hours
Drinks this week: 10.5

It's been a long-ass time since I wrote anything productive in this blog, so as Whitesnake said; Here I Go Again.

The past few months have been busy & I don't really feel like recapping everything at the moment, so bits & pieces will likely spill out in the next few posts. Makes things interesting & less like a history lesson if you ask me.

Yesterday was the Leafs game so I picked up a 24 case just before dinner. I made a conscious decision to take it easy on the beers, moreso for my girlfriend's sake than my own. She's pretty sensitive to my drinking habits, so I try not to make her too mad at me.

Dinner came and went, had a glass of milk and cleaned up the apartment a bit. I watched the first period, cleaned some more during the intermission, and cracked my first beer as the second period started. I guess that was about 8:15pm.

By the time the game ended (4-1 loss to New Jersey) I had downed 3 beers. I had one while watching TV right after the game, then another while I played some video games.

I cracked my 6th just as my girlfriend asked how many I had had. I knew she was mentally rolling her eyes in disgust as only women can do. I was pretty tired and I didn't want to make her mad so I finished half of my 6th and went to bed around 12:30am.

Tonight I've got plans to hang out with my girlfriend again, so I'll try to sub beers for milk and Fruitopia. Shouldn't be a problem.

Cheers.

Day 198

Just keeping track of the day numbers...a new post will follow shortly.

-J

Off to Pick Up My New Wheels

It's been a good few weeks since I last posted. Mostly I've just been getting everything together for this week-long trip I'm going on to pick up my car.

More or less, I'm going to Ottawa tomorrow afternoon to pick up the car, then I'll be staying with my family there until about Thursday. I'll come back home for the night, then on Friday I'm off to London (Ontario, not England) to see my girlfriend's family and some of my old school chums.

Should be good, I'm excited.