I spent all day yesterday with family on a wine tour in beautiful upstate NY, the Finger Lakes region. It is just an incredibly beautiful place, the area I will always call “home.”
We rented a limo and the bunch of us took to visiting 6 different wineries in all, and had a great time. It was primarily for my Grandfather, who comes up from the southern tier to enjoy the time.
It’s a bit of a drive, but so scenic, and so many drunkards along the way…;)…that there is both beauty and laughs all around.
Do I taste any of the wines?
(Do you really have to ask?)
Of course not.
I haven’t drank for around six years now. I’m not counting, I just remember getting to a point and saying “I’m done”…and it was at some point in 2006 at the latest. Although I perhaps had a problem with alcohol in my earlier years, and there is alcoholism in my family, I never viewed it as a sobriety effort. I simply enjoyed being clean and free of the toxins, with all the huge benefits that followed; depression lifted and sleeping soundly being enough motivation in themselves to steer clear for good.
So I just brought my glass water bottle with me (I’ll cover that product soon, it’s friggin GREAT).
Then some healthy-ER chips to pass around (sweet potato ones) and a banana and apple.
Also brought some nitrate-free turkey franks for the grill later on when we came back and had dinner at the aunt/uncles place. The rest of them had their favorite meat by-product nitrate-cicles that they grilled up. (I really have no idea what they were, I just knew I wasn’t going to eat them).
So the point being, I did a “BYO”…and Brought Your (My) Own.
The rest of the family completely accepts this, even though I am 100% certain many of them find me a bit on the weird side.
But…
None of them have the abs that I do…
And none of them felt nearly as good as I did when dinner time came around after a day of constant drinking.
One of them even told me:
“I wish I was you.”
😉
(Mind you, they were pretty inebriated at the time).
😉
Love, Happiness, Health and Peace……………………………Tim 🙂
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