Thanks to my friend DeeJay for pointing this out to me - it was on a BBC2 show. An excellent summary of alcoholism I changed because I have the sickness of alcoholism, alcoholism doesn't come in bottles it comes in people. You should have seen me. I drank for happiness and became unhappy; I drank for joy and became miserable. I drank to be out-going and became self-centred; 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 awakened without rest. I drank for strength and felt weak. I drank for masculinity and it sapped my potency; I drank medicinally and got sick. I drank because I thought my job called for it and lost my job. I drank to stimulate thought and blacked out. I drank to make conversation and got to where I couldn't talk at all; I drank to forget and became haunted. I drank for freedom...
aww..you should have come to texas!!
ReplyDeleteHave a great time!
ReplyDeleteOh I am very envious of the car!
ReplyDeletePics on your return please.
Have great time :)
Or Oregon...where you will fell right at home, weather-wise! On second thought, stay on the other coast, I went to Cali and now I am sick, and I really don't care to share...
ReplyDeleteYou should be motorcycling... but I won't say anything else ! :))
ReplyDeleteI am running around trying to play catch up... sorry I have been bad.
Still love reading you, please don't stop writing, or visiting. :)
AJ
marquis, i expect( the merc)
ReplyDeleteThe quintisential American car? In other words, big, heavy, powerful, comfortable, horrible gas mileage, ill handling and an air conditioning system that could cool a ten-thousand square foot Iraqi palace? hahaha
ReplyDeleteGlad you enjoyed the East Coast. Been hot and dry out here in California...and now our annual wildfire season has started. As per usual, all the canyon dwelling southern Californians are once again looking at having their homes reduced to cinders, and yet, they all refuse to live anywhere else. Whatever. Same every year. I guess its the price we pay for all this sunshine. No free lunch in this world, eh?