I’ve had a … just beyond shitty week, and I’m giving serious consideration to getting blotto tonight when I get home. It’s worth noting that I’ve never been drunk before.
The grocery store is between work and home, so the entire contents of Harris Teeter’s beer and wine section, plus about 500 ml of vodka in the freezer at home.
Any suggestions?
No. Getting drunk as a response to negative input/experience is counter-productive. Alcohol can ease pain, but it can’t erase it. Have a couple of beers and relax, but don’t go for blotto. Find someone to talk to, and open up a little. Shared pain is lessened, shared joy is increased. So buy some good beer, and savor it.
Let’s see, the first time I got drunk I threw up in the back of my dad’s Mazda.
I suggest you buy a bucket. Or a Mazda.
Yes, have some Mexican beer.
Last time I got really upset I ate half a dozen donuts. I think the alcohol might have been a more productive use of my sadness but I don’t drink so that didn’t happen. I would say have a drink or two and cut yourself off. Over indulging is always bad, as I learned the day after the donut debacle (my tummy hurt so bad I thought Bob Barker got in there somehow and was pissed about it or something like that…the unpleasantness, it was immense.)
If you want to extend your shittiness streak to tomorrow morning go right ahead. I recommend renting a good comedy instead, or a joint.
You can rent joints now?
Yeah. Alchohol only works if you get together with a couple of your friends and bitch about work or just start having such a good time you forget what the heck was bothering you.
Sitting around your house or appartment by yourself getting smashed will just make you feel worse…and then hungover.
Netfix
Moderately to strongly intoxicated, yes. Blotto, no. The sickness and resulting hangover will make you regret it, plus the fact that it’s not the most healthy way of coping.
WIN!
I’ll echo silenus and point out that the Teeter carries some pretty decent beers. I’d recommend the Hennepin (Brewery Ommegang – Where Heaven met earth ... and stayed awhile. - Brewer of Belgian-Style Beers in America) from Brewery Ommegang.
Concur.
Sounds like a Buddhist orgy.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that…
Great… now I’m craving a Buddhist Orgy…
They rent those too at Netfux.
As a person who spent far too many years of my life using alcohol as a crutch to relieve pain, I concur. I don’t preach the AA mantra, have a couple of drinks to relax, I still do, but when you start getting blasted to numb the pain, it becomes a really, really bad habit…
Once again, silenus is the sage voice of learned wisdom, albeit no doubt as a result of adverse experience. Drinking as a coping mechanism isn’t even especially effective in the short term, and caries some substantial long-term detriments. Also, hangovers are even less fun than they look and extend far beyond a throbbing head. When you have to spend the morning sitting on the toilet because of overindulgence and resultant disturbed GI tract, you’ll realize that, as with romance and gunfights, the entertainment industry rarely portrays the reality in any kind of depth.
Stranger
At the risk of having my virtual head chopped off, I like to get drunk now and then, and I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong with that. I’m not doing it to “cope,” I cope all week when I’m stressed out at work trying to get everything done. And I don’t drink to relax, I drink because I can relax after a long week, and because I occasionally like getting drunk. It’s fun. And as long as I drink plenty of water, I have little or no hangover. Obviously, YMMV.
Go for it!
As long as you’re not out driving or exposing yourself to people, it’s a good way for some people to cap off a week.
On a related note, I now feel like the devil on your shoulder.
Sure, but Knead has never been drunk before in her (or possiibly his) life. So while this may be the first step on a journey that will see her homeless under a trestle crooning to a half-gone bottle of Mogen-David, that seems unlikely.
If you want to get drunk, being at home is the place for it. If you’ve never been drunk before, well hell, it’s one more experience and again, home is the best place for it. I would aim for a nice buzz, not completely wasted (as in Bill Cosby wasted: “Oh toilet bowl! You are so cool against my forehead, toilet bowl!”) I’m guessing three beers or glasses of wine should about do it. Just say Nyet to the vodka.
And don’t mix. Drink beer or wine or vodka (nyet!) and drink enough of it to get you where you want to be tonight, but only drink the one kind.