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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsFriday Night Sobriety Thread.
Another week or so, and I will be to my usual Friday evening buzzed ramblings...
I love you all...
cayugafalls
(5,631 posts)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)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.
safeinOhio
(32,532 posts)I had to double up tonight. Wish me luck.
Aristus
(66,096 posts)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.
cilla4progress
(24,589 posts)to make these sacrifices! I'm sure you are loving it. It's good to be of use!
Aristus
(66,096 posts)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)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)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)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)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 didnt 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)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)I have a sister in Eugene. Their air quality is at 472, scale only goes up to 500.
Aristus
(66,096 posts)God, the air must be solid where you are...
Yeah, definitely stay indoors...
cilla4progress
(24,589 posts)Gibson dilemma? IIRC from my waitressing days - a pickled onion?
Mme. Defarge
(7,982 posts)is made with a cocktail onion instead of an olive.
cilla4progress
(24,589 posts)how is that a dilemma?
Aristus
(66,096 posts)It's easy for me: neither. I take my Martinis without garnish.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Actually if it's vodka, I don't mind a little lemon peel.
If gin, a lime peel.
Mme. Defarge
(7,982 posts)an onion-stuffed olive in my drink lets me have both.