In My Case: Are You Alcohol?

Or A Dry Goods Accompaniment?

I Am No Longer Pavlov's Dog.

I will not salivate (or drink) upon this New Year's chime.

The Power of Advertising

The Power of Alcohol

I can't make up for time I've lost,

but I can live more in the time I've left.

Dosage Varies Daily

More is not always better.

I never wanted to stay home...

...until my drinking found me homeless.

The one brain cell that says, "Jim, you can drink safely,"

I imagine looks something like this:

THE LAST BRAIN CELL STANDING.

Blame Self...

(or Blame Others).

Yes, this may help define a "Dry Drunk"

but a certain comfort also comes in admitting that we all have "Dry Days".

Serial Killer?

No. Cereal Killer.

Here is my Fry Pan:

Where is my Irony Bored?

I are an Alcoholic.

Yes, we is.

This Ghost of Christmas Past is Still Haunting,

Just Not Nearly So Much Daunting.

When I Drank I Would Not Need This 'Gentlemen's Cologne'

Because, as it were, I already reeked of Alcohol, Self-Pity and Deception.

Drinking and Smoking can be so, so Social.

Hitting Bottom is so, so Not.

"Shelf-Justification":

If it's on the Shelf, I can fool my Self.

(yes, that is Sarah Silverman)

When Fueled by Alcohol

Any Excuse Will Do.

Dear Lady Gaga,

I think I was born this way.

Before I got sober the first time, I thought getting sober would be like watching paint dry.

Boredom can be a trigger. The pace of sober change will slacken. I will want to test the waters.

Dry drunk. Dry paint. The walls close in. Relapse traps.

Seven years later, it got good.

On My Way to a Meeting....

Of course, this was 20 years ago, so I didn't know I was

On My Way to a Meeting!

Nativity Scene

I was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania from a long line of alcoholics.

Step One:

"We admitted we were powerless over alcohol- that our lives had become unmanageable."

My School of Hard Knocks

(Sobriety Rocks!)

"I was so toasted..." "How toasted were you?"

"I was so toasted I needed a toast defibrillator to revive me."

A roof over my head and...

...someone to blame.

Beethoven's Fifth (not pictured)

Jim's 5th (pictured)

A Life in Balance tends to Stay in Balance.

A drink is never the next right thing.

From Candy to Dandy

My Liquor was Quicker.

Funny Until

The Fourth or Fifth Hospitalization for

Alcohol Poisoning.

Chemical formula for Alcohol.

It's on my Flask. It's in my Flask.

It's in my DNA.

I Could Not Read the Writing on the Wall

Because When I Drank, the Writing was Illegible.

Oliver Twist: "Please, sir, I want some more." ...

Bartender: "Olive or twist?"

Customer: Just give me more.

Roll Me a Bone and Leave Me Alone

Like I've Said

Alcohol Was In Everything I Did.

Black Friday Miracle

The other unbelievable thing is that "Aisle" is spelled wrong.

Or is it?

The Morning After Used to be Ruff, Like a Dog Who Hurt or...

Me Ow!

It's not the effects of alcohol,

It's the side-effects.

Chasing The Next Drink...

Alcohol was in

my every move.

It's not all about Alcohol

But it is all about Addiction:

Alcohol, Cocaine, Internet and On and On and More and More.

My 100th blog...

a drop in the bucket

I chain-smoked when I drank.

Two Cycles of Addiction Have Been Broken.

The Way It Whirred.

Step One: Drink yourself silly with nothing on the side...

Step Two: After being hired, resume dry goods.

In a Less Human Way

This is the way I used to peer at the pour.

Spoiler Alert

   "Nothing matters more than that we remain sober because when we remain sober everything matters more."

from All Drinking Aside: The Destruction, Deconstruction and Reconstruction of An Alcoholic Animal
(Chapter 51, Rough Draft)

e-info available from moonshine2sunshine@yahoo.com

Tribute to Vicki Sue Robinson and that whole Disco Generation:

Turn that drink around, turn it upside down...

Garden Variety Drunk

You could say I'm just a garden variety drunk.

I already said that? Figures.

My Yin and Yang were in balance when I drank.

Or so it would appear.

I Thought My Drinking Had a Porpoise.

Orange You Glad I Didn't Say Banana?