Helloooo modders! Hope everyone had a great Halloween. Today is All Saints Day, and time to turn the page, start anew, and get going on whatever mission you may choose. 
The hurricane has come and gone, and the Northeast is working round the clock to get back to normal. I mentioned previously that I was shocked at how the hurricane really triggered cravings, and I've been thinking about why. It probably started when I was in college in New Orleans. Of course as college kids, we didn't need any excuses to drink, but there were quite a few times when we'd get bad storms (like 5+ inches of rain in a couple of hours, or more) or even threats of a hurricane, and what would we do? Hunker down with a big stash of booze and have a storm party! As many of us realize, when we started drinking excessively at a young age your maturity level doesn't continue to grow. We're stuck at that age maturity wise, so, painful as it is to admit, I've been acting like a college kid for roughly 30 years. Maybe I've grown in a hurry with the combination of 100+ days AF (and staying sober since July 7) and the birth of my twins. Or maybe there's a connection between being fed up and tired of drinking excessively daily and acting like a 20 year old kid. I don't know exactly what the answer is here, but I wasn't happy with the fact that getting shut in for a couple of days made me think about drinking my way through the storm.
Fortunately I didn't do so. Yeah, I had quite a few beers, but they were root beers!:H I did at one point find myself considering the bottle of champagne that's been in the fridge since a friend gave it to us when the twins were born, but stopped myself by thinking how ridiculous it would be to pop a bottle of champagne (which I'm not a big fan of) and drink it myself. What would my wife think when she found it? What would my friend think when I told him I drank it alone, simply to get drunk during the storm? But more importantly, what would my reaction time be if the storm got so bad that I needed to evacuate my wife and the twins? My biggest worry was the possibility of the windows blowing in, and we'd have to get out in a hurry. Not something you want to consider doing drunk. So the bottle of Perrier Joiet (sp?) remains in the fridge. Maybe Thanksgiving, Christmas or New Years will see it opened and shared with my wife and family.
Time for work. I'm honored to start the thread this month, and hope the Mod Squad follows.
D
The hurricane has come and gone, and the Northeast is working round the clock to get back to normal. I mentioned previously that I was shocked at how the hurricane really triggered cravings, and I've been thinking about why. It probably started when I was in college in New Orleans. Of course as college kids, we didn't need any excuses to drink, but there were quite a few times when we'd get bad storms (like 5+ inches of rain in a couple of hours, or more) or even threats of a hurricane, and what would we do? Hunker down with a big stash of booze and have a storm party! As many of us realize, when we started drinking excessively at a young age your maturity level doesn't continue to grow. We're stuck at that age maturity wise, so, painful as it is to admit, I've been acting like a college kid for roughly 30 years. Maybe I've grown in a hurry with the combination of 100+ days AF (and staying sober since July 7) and the birth of my twins. Or maybe there's a connection between being fed up and tired of drinking excessively daily and acting like a 20 year old kid. I don't know exactly what the answer is here, but I wasn't happy with the fact that getting shut in for a couple of days made me think about drinking my way through the storm.
Fortunately I didn't do so. Yeah, I had quite a few beers, but they were root beers!:H I did at one point find myself considering the bottle of champagne that's been in the fridge since a friend gave it to us when the twins were born, but stopped myself by thinking how ridiculous it would be to pop a bottle of champagne (which I'm not a big fan of) and drink it myself. What would my wife think when she found it? What would my friend think when I told him I drank it alone, simply to get drunk during the storm? But more importantly, what would my reaction time be if the storm got so bad that I needed to evacuate my wife and the twins? My biggest worry was the possibility of the windows blowing in, and we'd have to get out in a hurry. Not something you want to consider doing drunk. So the bottle of Perrier Joiet (sp?) remains in the fridge. Maybe Thanksgiving, Christmas or New Years will see it opened and shared with my wife and family.
Time for work. I'm honored to start the thread this month, and hope the Mod Squad follows.
D
Kind of amazing how most of us become a lot more introspective, isn't it? Even the men! 
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