TGFGT :)

Thank Goodness For Gin & Tonic

Ok.... it's the last night of Suip-tember (pahahaha... just made that up) and I decided a G&T would be the perfect "last drink", accompanied by a huge platter of sushi (of course). :)

I tried to google "non alcoholic alternative to G&T" and got this answer:
Juniper Dry Soda & Fever-Tree tonic water, with a wedge of lemon and ice

*clueless* yet another recipe that's impossible to make in this country - or am I wrong? I will need to research Mocktails further...

extra reading here on why Mocktails suck

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123879740183388057.html

Sober October: The Rules

I figure the rules are simple:
1. No alcohol from 00h01 on Saturday 1 October 2011, until 00h01 on Tuesday 1 November
2. Be classy: being drunk on 30 September is not classy! As is staying up late on a work night to have first sip of wine on 31 October (especially if you already have a reputation about Halloween binges)
3. Don't accept any kind of drink from your friends... they have money riding on this and want to see you fail...

Good luck! (although I fear I'm the only one doing this...)

Tick tock

Ok... Sober October is almost upon me... and I managed to spill wine in my brother's shoe... (he had his shoes off)... fabulous family fact: He is the ying to my yang... the sober to my drunk... yup... you can't hide the fact that someone's shoe pongs of cabernet when they don't drink at all...

This brings up a memory of me dropping a bottle of chenin blanc and flooding my shoes in PnP, in front of my long suffering mother... nothing lines you up for favourite child than wine feet in PnP...

Do I really want to do this?

You can, but I can't: Oktober Bierfest

mmm... so first "big drink event" of October... of which there is one every weekend of October (look out for my miserable posts...) 


http://www.oktoberbierfest.co.za/

"a celebration of Bavarian culture and the
recreation of Bavarian beer festivals of old"

Good thing I don't drink beer... pity I haven't even given myself the choice...  


Looking at the "rules"
PLEASE NOTE: No U18s allowed
PLEASE NOTE: No Pass Outs

Does "No Pass Outs" mean don't get drunk and pass out? Or just, once you're there you can't leave? :-/

I'll join your cult!

With three good drinking evenings left before Sober October... I found myself hovering around the wine section of PnP... as one does before leaving loved ones for a month: reassuring the gorgeous bottles that I would be back... in November.


Whilst hovering (lurking?), I made a gorgeous, extremely yummy discovery, in Cloof's recently released Cabernet Cult wine, the label says its all:


“How would it be if a wine left the winery exactly as Mother Nature intended? No made-up coffee flavours. No stories about the grapes being crushed between the thighs of a red-haired virgin. No ageing in oak barrels from the other side of the earth. And definitely no recommendations to drink it with fish or pasta.

Cabernet Cult - for the wine critic inside every one of us. It will impress our friends because they enjoy drinking it, not because of a five-star rating by a dude we've never met (which is how $100 cult wines are created by fancy-pants marketers).

Join the Cult... a new kind of cult cabernet.”

Read more here: http://cloof.co.za/News/tabid/85/EntryId/115/A-New-Kind-of-Cult-Cabernet.aspx


Just what I'd expect from the farm who hosts Rocking The Daisies every year! (no, I'm not going... well unless I win tickets...)


Cheers!

The Purpose

So, I was pretty certain that I'm not the first person to figure out that "Sober October" rolls off the tongue so beautifully, check out this site:
http://www.soberoctober.org.uk/

They give their livers a rest for a month and use the money they saved to buy books from a local bookstore.

Strange, my idea was similar... with atleast 3 people threatening to actually bet money against me managing to stay sober for a month... I was going to put the money towards my Kindle... :D so go ahead guys, make my day :) bet against me and get me closer to my Kindle *evil laugh*

I've never been more determined :)

Proving my friends wrong

This was a vague idea I had yesterday, that over dinner with friends tonight seems to have morphed into a full blown challenge, namely Sober October... I'd like to take this one step forward even and propose monthly challenges... who know's where this will go.... but for now, I'd like to drum up some support and maybe even some co-sobers, for the month of October... who's with me?
And for the record, I already have friend"s betting against me... so I'm sure as hell going to manage this Sober October challenge! More info to follow!