I don't drink anymore... no really...

Not for the last 2 or 3 years.

Various reasons: medications for middle aged health conditions, financial realities,
and just plain boredom with socialising in over expensive pubs & clubs..



Though I do reserve the option to indulge in enjoying a big idiotic binge bender
of affordable supermarket booze fueled home drinking
one weekend every 2 or 3 months or so.

No justifications needed, it just seems to happen when the time feels right
to lose control and become stupid & unruly in the relatively safe confines of my own home.

It's not a fixed pattern set in stone,
maybe coincides with birthdays and bank holidays to some extent ??

.. and if it becomes too predictable and I start to feel like I'm going through the motions for the sake of it,
who knows I might stop drinking altogether eventually.

One thing I'm positively aware of is the less frequently I get drunk
the more disinclined I am to go through the discomforts
of waking up feeling like shit
and having to sheepishly trace my trail of shameful embarrassment
on various internet forums...