I sometimes start pouring the box-wine-and-Diet-7up at noon. It saved our ancestors from dying of cholera and typhoid, after all ...
I’ve always liked you, Tax-chick, but now you’re joining my pantheon of favorites! I’m drinking cheapo brandy myself.
You are a woman after my own heart! I rationalize my box o’wine as cheap therapy. My husband can’t argue with that. Well, he could, but he tells the kids ‘if Mom’s not happy, then I’m not happy, and if I’m not happy, watch out.’ LOL
Another cheap source of therapy—sitting in church for several hours on Sunday afternoon/evening with the Blessed Sacrament and the International Pilgrim Statue of Our Lady of Fatima, which was at our parish Sunday/Monday. No hangover and the effects are still with me :)