So how much champagne are YOU going to drink tonight?

In My Humble Opinion
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Yesterday, while spending the afternoon with my mother, we stopped at the local liquor store. While there, I decided to buy a couple bottles of Champagne for New Year’s Eve. Mr. Athena and I like champagne. We drink it even when it’s not a holiday. Yum! Champagne!

I couldn’t decide what two bottles to get, so I ended up buying 3 bottles. Three is kind of a splurge, but hey! It’s New Year’s Eve! AND it’s my birthday on Jan 1! We NEED champange!

While walking out of the store, I looked at my mother and said “Hmm… I hope that Mr. Athena isn’t out buying champagne today, too!” I didn’t worry too much about this, as both me and Mr. Athena are “wait until the last minute to do things” kind of people. It was amazing that here I was, the day BEFORE New Year’s Eve, buying Champagne. No way were both of us going to be all organized at the same time.

I get home. “Hey sweetie, I got some champagne!” He looks at me. “So did I!”

“Ok… I bought 3 bottles… how many did you buy?”

“I can’t tell you that” he replies. “Well, I can tell you… I bought at least 3 bottles…”

Which means, in Mr. Athenaspeak, he bought 3 bottles and then he bought at least one really really nice bottle of champagne, not the typical stuff we drink.

So we’re sitting on at least 7 bottles of champagne. Don’t worry, you say? People we be by to drink it? Um, no, not really. After a very festive Christmas season, Mr. Athena and I decided to have a nice quiet evening together for New Year’s Eve. Me, Mr. Athena, and 7 bottles of Champagne. Well, make it 6… we figured we had to get a nice base in our stomachs last night to brace ourselves for tonight, so we opened a bottle with dinner.

One down, 6 to go.

Disclaimer: No, we probably won’t be drinking 6 bottles of champagne between the two of us in one night. The idea of drinking 6 bottles between two people is purely speculative and is presented as a frivolous idea designed to promote humor. We are not alcoholics. At least, we don’t think so. We strive for balance in our lives. We work out regularly, except during the holidays. We eat healthy, mostly. Cookies are healthy, right? We will not be driving whilst drinking our 6 bottles of champagne. We will refrain from even walking. That’s all, I must go chill champagne now.

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1/2 bottle this night and the remainder as apertif tomorrow when watching the Vienna Newyearsday concert. I got my bottle(s) directly from the winemaker, Äy, France.

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Zero tonight. Maybe some eggnog and asleep by 10. Tomorrow we entertain the relatives with a huge pot of my award-winning black bean chili, some torts, homemade salsa, mimosas and scintillating conversation.

4

No, but I might make a Long Island Iced Tea tonight. Hubby probably won’t drink anything but cough syrup though. He has a bad cold/cough.

5

None.

twicks, sober 18 years, 9 days.

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If I’m drinking champagne at any point today/tonight/tomorrow morning, then it’s a hell of a lot classier a night than I’m expecting.

7

We’ve got a bottle of Dom (that we had received as a gift) that we’ll share with two friends.

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None. I don’t really like it and I’m at an age where I no longer do things that I don’t really like…

However, let me wish you a happy birthday. May you have a good day, a good year and a good life.

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I’m with Crusoe… champagne would be lovely, but beer is a lot more probable.

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We went to pick up some liquor last night and on the way to the store I realized the date, so I ended up getting a six pack of beer, a small bottle of Bacardi, a bottle of Jack Daniels, and a bottle of Pinot Noir for the Hour at Hand. My single hope is to not be totally plastered before opening the wine for midnight.

And just so y’all don’t think poorly of us, I just happened to have Christmas cash left and decided to restock our liqour cabinet - not to drink it all in a couple nights.

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Champagne gives me the worst hangovers! I think I’ll be refraining from it tonight…

12

No champagne at all, but we’ll be enjoying oodles of jello shots. :slight_smile:

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Probably just one glass of champagne at midnight. It’ll be the stuff before and after that will kill me!

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Mmmm…champagne. We’re going to see a burlesque show and Southern Culture on the Skids, so I’m not sure how much champagne I’ll be drinking – but we do have a medium-good (I hope) bottle chilling in the fridge.

Mmmm…champagne.

Daniel

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I got this 1.5 L bottle of Cook’s Brut champagne as a Christmas present at work, but neither I nor my wife drinks the stuff. Anyone want it (except you twicks, congratulations btw on the sobriety)?

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My friend from back home is coming up and is bringing a bottle of Ballatore for us to drink at midnight. When she went to the store with her dad to buy it, he wondered why on earth she was buying that godawful cheap stuff instead of something better.

What she didn’t tell him was that when we were kids we used to raid her parents’ liquor cabinet on New Year’s Eve when they went out, and when we were about 14 we drank a whole bottle of Ballatore within a few minutes. I ended up feeling sick to my stomach, and even though I didn’t throw up, it was my first experience bowing down before the porcelain god. :slight_smile: So to answer your question, I’ll be drinknig at least half a bottle of Ballatore.

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We have two bottles of Veuve Cliquot on hand, so we’ll be drinking two bottles.

MMMMM, champagne!

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Champagne keeps. Just stick the bottles horizontally in a cool dark place and have them later this year.

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I can’t drink champagne, though I wish I could. For some reason it tastes utterly foul to me. I will be drinking, though…probably some girly mixed drinks. Mmmm, fruity.

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Hi, Athena, and Happy Birthday! Save a couple of bottles for St. Valentine’s Day. It will be here before you know it.

I love champagne, but unfortunately I cannot partake tonight at midnight. I have bacterial sinusitis and am on antibiotics and painkillers, so it will be some Perrier for me, if I’m even awake at that late hour! Mr. Spooks can drink the champagne we have left over from Christmas if he wants, but he will probably prefer to have Guinness.

Happy New Year, everybody!