two rum coffees and a glass of wine

Oops I don't drink much any more, partly due to my medication and mainly because I don't want to. Surprisingly mainly because having worked in the alcohol trade on and off for 10 years I saw too many people and lives ruined by its affects. So I just make sure I only have enough to enjoy life and that's it.

That said with the sudden arrival of the cold weather the liquor laced coffees arrived and now as we sit to have dinner the wine is open,. Now I have a special wine glass for at home, it is a clay goblet that actually holds a lot less than you think as the clay is thick. Even with that small amount I am feeling the affects, just enough to know I had best not have any more. I have turned into such a lightweight regarding alcohol its embarrassing.

But it has left me with that warm glowing feeling you get after a good Christmas dinner, you know that feeling you get when you don't mind playing monopoly with that annoying cousin, whilst the older members fall asleep in their chairs pretending to be listening to the queens speech. That how I feel at the moment, even though my taste buds are so messed up by the cold on top of the medication meant the only thing that tasted edible was the red cabbage stewed with apple and onion. In fact that's all I ate as everything tasted wrong, not that I will starve. There is home made shortbread and cooked grapes if I get any appetite back.

However for now, I will skip the after dinner liqueur and opt for a mug of steaming sweet tea. Yep summer has gone, and the first of the winter colds is upon us, and I miserable? not really its less than a 100 days to Christmas and only 16 days till my birthday, some one better put the champagne on ice ( or just in the porch)