Posted on 02/21/2019 2:45:09 PM PST by RoosterRedux
I was never falling-down drunk. I was never belligerent. I always got my work done. I was never unkempt. I was always clean, I was always shaved, I always performed at work. I was always kind and gracious in the dining room. But I lived in hell.
When we opened Joe Beef in 2005, we were inspired by Martin Picard at Au Pied de Cochon, by these grandiose bistros of Paris, by seafood towers, by excess. We were two portly men who ate and drank well. I was and still am very insecure about anybody coming to the restaurant and not having a spectacular meal. I want people to drink and eat to excess. I promote it.
The community of people I surrounded myself with ate and drank like Vikings. It worked well in my twenties. It worked well in my thirties. It started to unravel when I was 40. I couldn’t shut it off. All of a sudden, there was no bottle of wine good enough for me. I’m drinking, like, literally the finest wines of the world. Foie gras is not exciting. Truffles are meh. I don’t want lobster; I had it yesterday. What am I looking for, eating and drinking like this every day?
I started asking myself questions about alcoholism. What was I showing my children by eating and drinking like a Viking in front of them at the cottage? I wasn’t acting on many opportunities because I was hungover most of the time. I was medicating with food. I was medicating with alcohol. And finally it just got to a point where I was just really unhappy. My managers knew it, my staff knew it, and it strained my personal life at home. I Googled “Stop drinking,”
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I LOVE Toby Keith.
You need an MRE intervention.
I ain’t drunk; I’m just drinkin’ - Albert Collins
...and a wine for every first course under leavened...
The alcoholic is the last to know
The underlying problems that resulted in alcoholism don't disappear and some maintenance is required.
Not every alcoholic craves
Do you not know the word?
Ain’t it the truth
Har har....not
Like gardening, tending fruit trees....teaching the dogs "stuff"?
That sort of attention?
My best friend eventually suicided from the results of his alcoholism. He started drinking as a teenager and never stopped, to my knowledge.
He was in a car crash and was taken to the hospital where they had to crack his chest open. His liver was so huge, they just sewed him back up.
Yes, it is. We're studying it at church right now.
It also reminds us to enjoy the goodness through food and drink that God provides for us.
Ecclesiastes 2:24 There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.
I don't have a drinking problem.
I drink. I get drunk. I fall down. No problem!
I have tried to explain to my cousin that as long as
she is drinking alcohol she is an alcoholic.
She says she is a nurse and knows better,
and continues to drink. Which is classic denial.
I don’t drink any more, I don’t smoke anything anymore,
and mushrooms are hard to find.
I see what you did there...
Thunderbird?
I have a torn muscle in each arm (repairs have to be made within 48 hours).
I can ignore it while working but when at rest it eats on you.
I need 4-5 beers at night to sleep.
The oldest tear I did in '98.
I sense sarcasm
But if not
synonyms: drink, beverage, alcoholic drink, liquid refreshment, bracer; More
dram, draft, nip, tot, swallow, sip, gulp;
informalswig, tincture, tipple;
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