Alcohol Frenzy

Alcohol Frenzy

          I'm not going to lie, my whole family minus the children in the house and my brother have a drinking problem. My mother drinks from the moment she wakes up until she takes a glass with her when she goes to sleep. My sister drinks herself stupid and sick every month or so. My father and I have a different similar issue. When we have a beer we start getting an urge to have another, then another where all self-control flies out the fucking window.

          Now we aren't bad people by any means and most of us, with maybe the exception of my sister, are what you would call functioning alcoholics. My sister on the other hand doesn't do jack shit but lay around miserably with a high, tired, and flushed look to her face. She's not really good at concealing her current drinking situation. She's not a bad person either. Aside from being sick as hell and kind of mean, Oh, and the fact that even though there are tons of lighters laying around, she has to light her cigarettes on the stove-top which is annoying as fuck to my father and I.

          When my mom drinks she becomes way more productive. She gardens, or she'll do a ton of things around the house. I really don't know where this energy comes from but I wish she'd share it with my father and myself. Sometimes though she can get mean and target me. Not sure why i'm such an easy target. I don't take the bullshit and will defend myself during fight-pickings. For example the other day my mom brought up something that happened the day before. It wasn't even on my mind. I told her I didn't really want to have that conversation but it ended in a huge fight anyway leaving everyone in a tizzy and ruining our weekend getaway.

          My father tends to drink more than he realizes and the dumb thing he does is he doesn't eat until dinner but will start on beer about an hour after getting his morning coffee in. He can be kind of a jerk honestly. Don't get me wrong, I love my dad but truth is truth. He slurs his words, he kind of acts weird to people or will constantly put my Dinky on the spot; did the other day as well and I had to remind him that Dinky is only seven and doesn't understand when my dad does that. I get my dad's problem, I really do. He's in a ton of pain due to his arthritis from working hard being a lineman when he was younger. Think he did that for forty-some years to provide for a wife and six kids. Even yesterday he said he was determined to quit drinking tomorrow yet is now drinking his "last" beer for like the tenth time.

          Lastly, since I can't just talk shit about family without including myself; I am a functional alcoholic. I try not to knock them back-to-back too often because when I do that, I get depressed and lazy as fuck. I won't get anything done that way. More often than not, I use a can of beer as a reward. Got laundry in the wash, "yay! Now I can have a beer!" Got laundry through the dryer, folded, and put away, "good, time for another beer." Sometimes i'll enjoy one while helping Dinky with his homework or after getting all my chores done for the day. No, I'm not some upstanding citizen when I've been drinking. I get playful but my main quirk is that I also get annoyingly loud and talkative. I talk fast too. I can think of 10 different topics to discuss in a span of maybe five minutes. Might be ADHD related and the alcohol is exaggerating it a bit, who knows.

          I recently drank a lot of wine. I don't even like wine, but, I was smashed that night. The next day I was extremely sick, I can empathize with my sister when she has her drunk fits going through withdrawals. I was overly hungover, I tried to drink water, couldn't keep that down, ate bland mashed potatoes didn't keep that down either, at least it didn't taste horrible coming back up. I was dizzy, trembling, massive stomach ache, dehydrated as fuck and not being able to keep down any damn thing including water for most of the day royally sucked ass! I haven't drank wine since and am really trying not to drink myself sick drunk anymore. A good buzz maybe but that was it.

          In conclusion, the good news is my mom quit drinking. Pretty much because providing alcohol for four people is pretty fucking out of our budget. As well as how my sister has her frenzies and has no self-control as well as her drunk behavior. My dad is enjoying his supposedly last beer right this second, Myself, I neither asked my mom to purchase nor mooched off my dad today. If my mom can quit, then so the hell can I! My mom bought me Cola because it's always been my go-to while stopping alcohol, not sure why and boy can it clear out my colon, can't deny how yummy it is though. I hope my dad jumps on the bandwagon sooner than later, or never honestly. I told my mom maybe it'd be best that we just keep alcohol out of the house that perhaps we'd be better off that way without temptation.

Well, Wish us luck!