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Friday Night Sobriety Thread. (Original Post) Aristus Sep 2020 OP
Yea, these are awful trying times...wish I could knock a couple back. cayugafalls Sep 2020 #1
It's going well. Aristus Sep 2020 #3
I can only handle 1oz if booze and two puffs. safeinOhio Sep 2020 #2
That's right: no cannabis either for me while he's here, obviously. Aristus Sep 2020 #4
You are a kind grandpa cilla4progress Sep 2020 #5
Is it kindness? Aristus Sep 2020 #6
Funny story cilla4progress Sep 2020 #9
The likelihood that he is using is pretty high. (Excuse the expression) Aristus Sep 2020 #13
Drugs I took with my old man during the course of my life from 17-52 y.o. mr_lebowski Sep 2020 #19
Glad you checked in. Mme. Defarge Sep 2020 #7
Our air quality is hovering unmoving at Very Unhealthy. Aristus Sep 2020 #8
It's around 300 in Portland area. Best to stay in. captain queeg Sep 2020 #10
We're 232 here. Aristus Sep 2020 #15
And what, pray tell, is the cilla4progress Sep 2020 #11
A Gibson Martini Mme. Defarge Sep 2020 #12
But cilla4progress Sep 2020 #14
Some people can't decide between the olive and the pearl onion. Aristus Sep 2020 #16
Me too ... and without vermouth either ... just shake booze and ice and strain in chilled glass ... mr_lebowski Sep 2020 #18
Since I am equally fond of both olives and cocktail onions, Mme. Defarge Sep 2020 #17

cayugafalls

(5,631 posts)
1. Yea, these are awful trying times...wish I could knock a couple back.
Fri Sep 11, 2020, 11:57 PM
Sep 2020

How has the visit been going? How is the grandson doing?

Weekends are the hardest for me, but I endure.

I'm glad you will be able to get back to it next weekend.

Aristus

(66,096 posts)
3. It's going well.
Sat Sep 12, 2020, 12:01 AM
Sep 2020

He's an online gamer, with friends around the world to game with, so he's happy. He joins us for meals and eats well. For us, that's enough; he's had a poor appetite his whole life.

Aristus

(66,096 posts)
4. That's right: no cannabis either for me while he's here, obviously.
Sat Sep 12, 2020, 12:03 AM
Sep 2020

Want to set a good example...

I'm sure I'll have a nice combo some Friday soon after he goes home. His brother (they share an apartment) has one week of quarantine to go.

Aristus

(66,096 posts)
6. Is it kindness?
Sat Sep 12, 2020, 12:22 AM
Sep 2020

I don't want him to see me in even a mild blissful buzz. He's so chill, I know it wouldn't faze him. But it would bother me...

cilla4progress

(24,589 posts)
9. Funny story
Sat Sep 12, 2020, 12:34 AM
Sep 2020

When our daughter was little and growing up we didn't smoke much pot- only when friends had it. Over time they seemed to have it more, and it is now legal where I live - washington state -as you know, since you live here too!

We would stress about our daughter finding out or finding our pot, jn her teen years and all. We would zealously hide it and only smoke out in the barn and such. Such a good way to cool down stress. She was kind of uptight in those days and definitely virulent opposed to cigarettes! We always planned carefully how we would tell her.

Well, one time she was home from college- maybe even graduating, and I had probably had a drink or two. And - you guessed it - I just said to myself, I sez, screw it. She's old enough to know, and I casually pulled out a pot pipe and offered her a toke. As I recall, she accepted, and we've smoked together many times since. This was like 5 years ago.

The funny part was after a bit when she asked me, suspiciously, " wait, were you high the whole time I was growing up?" 🤣🤣

Honestly, I beat myself up mercilessly about it through the years. Looking back I regret my shame! I never drove with her high. I guess there was the chance something could come up and it would be inopportune to be high. I have stories about that, too. But not with my daughter.

Any food for thought there, Aristus?? 😃

Aristus

(66,096 posts)
13. The likelihood that he is using is pretty high. (Excuse the expression)
Sat Sep 12, 2020, 12:42 AM
Sep 2020

He suffers from anxiety and insomnia. I'm cool with it if he does.

I just feel like I shouldn't with him in the house...

 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
19. Drugs I took with my old man during the course of my life from 17-52 y.o.
Sat Sep 12, 2020, 04:15 AM
Sep 2020

Booze, Weed, Coke, Crystal, Acid, Xanax, Mushrooms, Ecstasy, Oxycodone, Hydrocodone, Morphine & Dilaudid.

He'd definitely had most of those before I was 16, too. Not ecstasy though, I turned him on to that one.

He was high on weed almost every time I ever saw him in my entire life. I'd be surprised if he ever went 1 week w/o weed from like 1970-2019. Oh, and he was on opioids for the entire last 20 years of his life.

9/11 is his birthday, my first without him.

I miss him terribly. The sweetest, nicest, most loving friggin' dude you could ever hope to meet.

And Pops knew how to party

Mme. Defarge

(7,982 posts)
7. Glad you checked in.
Sat Sep 12, 2020, 12:22 AM
Sep 2020

Thoroughly enjoyed my Tanqueray martini with onion-stuffed olives (solves the “Gibson” dilemma).
I was celebrating the fact that our air quality had been upgraded to Very Unhealthy. Unfortunately it didn’t last and is back in the Hazardous category. Having spent the day as a shut-in, I am exhausted from inactivity.

Aristus

(66,096 posts)
8. Our air quality is hovering unmoving at Very Unhealthy.
Sat Sep 12, 2020, 12:24 AM
Sep 2020

I'd kill for a Martini right now (and I love the fix; onion-stuffed olives; you're right: solves the Gibson dilemma nicely.

captain queeg

(10,036 posts)
10. It's around 300 in Portland area. Best to stay in.
Sat Sep 12, 2020, 12:36 AM
Sep 2020

I have a sister in Eugene. Their air quality is at 472, scale only goes up to 500.

Aristus

(66,096 posts)
16. Some people can't decide between the olive and the pearl onion.
Sat Sep 12, 2020, 12:44 AM
Sep 2020

It's easy for me: neither. I take my Martinis without garnish.

 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
18. Me too ... and without vermouth either ... just shake booze and ice and strain in chilled glass ...
Sat Sep 12, 2020, 04:04 AM
Sep 2020

Actually if it's vodka, I don't mind a little lemon peel.

If gin, a lime peel.

Mme. Defarge

(7,982 posts)
17. Since I am equally fond of both olives and cocktail onions,
Sat Sep 12, 2020, 12:46 AM
Sep 2020

an onion-stuffed olive in my drink let’s me have both.

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