Irony Corner

I 've decided to start drinking more often, because I have been having too much to drink lately.

Strange, no?

The past two weekends I have had opportunity to "go out" on Saturday night and essentially had no limits. Last weekend I was at the RJR launch party. Corporate event, big dance club in Chicago, open access. Then yesterday, I went out with the neighbors which was also very cool. Went to three different bars, and I mean different in every sense of the word: one Japanese sake bar, one local headbangers/cowboys bar (not kidding on that descriptor) and one suburban dance club. That night also had limitless access to drinks since everyone is in the process of saying good-bye to us before our big move to the UK.

In addition to this, my next four weekends are similarly booked: I am performing a wedding on Saturday (with accompanying rehearsal dinner Friday), then the next weekend I am going to a St. Patrick's day party in the Netherlands, (yes, I know how weird that sounds) the weekend after that I am in Amsterdam, the weekend after that--my friends in Chicago are throwing a good-bye party for us.

SO--there is the potential for much too much drinking over the next month.

The last two Sundays, I have been not so much hungover as overly exhausted and bloaty, or in other words, miserable for a good chunk of the day. It doesn't help that the Saturday nights have included beer and shots and champagne, etc. within several hours of each other. See, I have not been a big beer drinker for the last 3 years, having it usually two nights a month when we'd do the show, and then only Guinness. Adding so much bad beer back into my system and then mixing it around with other stuff, has proven...detrimental.

It used to be that I would have a martini or a bit of Jamesons after work a couple times a week. Very nice, warms up the soul, lets one properly process the day, good for settling in with a book or whatever is on TV. However, because my weekends have been and will continue to be feasts of Bacchus, I have been eliminating my good drinks during the week, the higher quality things that I actually enjoy for the taste, only to replace them with high volumes of things that I don't normally drink.


I miss my martini's and feel like I am cheating on her with beer. Nasty dirty sex beer. Sure its fun that night, but the next day--It's like I got crabs...and pregnant...and I showed up on Maury only to find out that beer's not my baby's daddy, it's Jaeger Shots!

Therefore I have come up with a solution: Drink more of what I like during the week. Then, drink only that on the upcoming heavy weekends as well. No more multiple types of beer. No shots unless its something I am already drinking. If I start with wine, I stick with wine. Same for beer. Sipping two Jamesons will go just as far a five beers. That's it.


Drink more to drink less. It's a way of life, people. Embrace it.

--tomb