Confessions of a binge drinker

Well I had a nice 4 day weekend. We were invited to go to my sister's for Thanksgiving but we lied to her and my dad and told them that we were sick. Considering we had a family wedding two weeks ago and my family is getting together for Christmas in two weeks we figured that we'd get out of Thanksgiving this year. Scooby and I stayed home and were planning on having our own Thanksgiving dinner and inviting a couple of friends over but when I found that turkeys were $17-$25 each I said fuck it and bought a 30 pack of beer and a fifth of Irish cream instead.

The Bay City Times said this weekend that the county we live in consumes more alcohol than any other county in Michigan. This was no surprise since Bay City has more bars per capita than any other place in Michigan and besides its a prodominately German and Polish community, HELLO alcohol is our way of life. Bay City has 51 bars which is more than twice the ratio of people-to-bars than the state average and twice the number allowed under MI law. The law however, lets cities keep the liquor licenses issued before the limit was set in the 1930's. God bless grandfather clauses. They also stated that if you drink at least 5 drinks in a row at least once a month than your considered a binge drinker. So I guess society considers me a binge drinker. Woo Hoo... Anyway we did our best this weekend to keep our title.

We also had some friends come up from the Detroit area this weekend. They stayed at another friend of ours and we partied with them most of the weekend. We had a great time hitting the local flea markets and antique shops. Scooby and I made breakfast for everyone Friday and Saturday morning and had dinner both nights at our friend Joe's place.

Shit I almost forgot to mention the snow storm we had last Wednesday...fuckin' 6 inches of the white shit, not the kinda 6 inches I like either. Had to drive home from work in it and it wasn't fun. It then rained most of the weekend and now most of it is gone, but their predicting another snow storm tonight...shit.

We didn't miss out totally on all the Thanksgiving fixings, our neighbor next door brought us over two plates full of food which we inhaled. Oh and last but not least a big thanks to Homer for the delightful Thanksgiving pics. Anyway that was our Thanksgiving weekend in a nutshell. Hope everyone had a good one...