Drinks Are On Me
The quest to drink Champagne every day for a year
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Photo reblogged from Don't Cry...It's Just Sarcasm
“Always keep a bottle of Champagne in the fridge for special occasions. Sometimes the special occasion is that you’ve got a bottle of Champagne in the fridge.” - The Finishing Touches
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Wow, I was Dale Downer in that last post, wasn’t I? The truth is I have hit a rut & am just starting to come out of it.
I have been giving a lot of thought to why this is happening & I am going to chalk it up to experiencing something I call the “New Normal”. Let me explain:
- On Twitter, my pal Amanda Maynard tried going several weekdays without drinking wine. She felt out of sorts during the time but fine once she gave in & had a glass. I suggested that having asome wine each night is her “New Normal”, i.e. her body’s current default setting. Once she did not drink, she was out of it. As soon as she had some wine, her body recognized that as being “normal” & her vigor was restored.
- My “New Normal” is that I drink a glass of sparkling wine every day. Less than 60 days in & somehow that does not seem special anymore. Instead, it has become part of my daily routine, like showering & developing website code for high-profile clients. Some of those days are going to include spectacular wine-drinking experiences & others (like these six days when I had a glass of average Prosecco & have been nursing a bottle of Two Hands “Brilliant Disguise” sparkling Moscato from Barossa Valley) will be just so-so. The previous entry described one of those so-so days.
This is really what’s known as a “Good Problem” to have, isn’t it?
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I drink sparkling wine to make me feel good. Sometimes it does not work.
Sometimes I have a hunger so deep it cannot be satisfied. There is no amount of food or wine that can satisfy an empty feeling of loneliness & depression.
Recently I had a really low day. Money was not coming in, new job had not started yet, my beloved New York Yankees lost. All First World Problems, to be sure.
When I am down in the dumps, the first thing I do is turn to takeout food. This time it was two medium pizzas from Dominos paired with this Henkell Trocken sparkling wine from Germany. This dry Gruner Veltliner/Riesling blend is light, fizzy & when paired with a pizza with very light tomato sauce, actually does not taste half bad. In fact, it is quite delicious with the crust!
But no matter how good the wine is, unfortunately, by the time I am done stuffing my gaping maw I realize I am still empty inside. Insidious.
Yeah, yeah. Cheers to life. Whoopdeedoo.
Photo from the dongwonwineplus.com website.
