I like drinking wine and margaritas - not much else. I've been having a drink almost every night, though - usually the equivalent of one margarita or 2 glasses of wine. In the morning I think I won't have a drink that night, but by dinnertime I really want that glass of wine. I think I'm heading down the slope right now, so that might be part of it. When I'm up, I want to drink and drink and drink, typically socially. It's usually at someone's house (sometimes ours), though, like a dinner party. It's still not a ton by some standards, but it might be almost a bottle of wine by myself or 3-4 margaritas if our friend is making them. I drain them, and they fill up, so I drain them again. Once I get started drinking, whether I'm up or down, I have to finish what's in my glass. With the wine, it's almost a compulsion to pour the 2nd or 3rd glass - so I try to get a smaller glass and pour small amounts each time so I feel like I'm having more than I actually am. With the margaritas, if it's in my glass, I'll drain it. I won't go to the effort to make myself a 3rd; often I won't even make a 2nd. But it someone else makes it, down it goes. It's on both ends of the cycle, though I don't do nearly as much socializing generally when I'm down, so the drinking is probably less.
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