Status quo.
Aside from this blog and Flickr, my other current online self-expression passion is Facebook.
I’m not sure why it surprises me, but I just realized that a healthy (or perhaps unhealthy?) amount of my Friends often have status updates related to drinking.
Behold, a sampling from today:
J. is home, armed with a glass of wine, and ready for very little action.
T. is ready for beer:30.
D. is like one of those toy thermodynamically powered water-drinking birds, but for booze.
S. is letting her friends feed her grilled cheese and champagne.
M. believes that beer is the gift you give yourself.
While I have no desire to drink right now, all those damn alcohol references kinda bug me. But it’s okay. I’m in my pj’s, ready to read a bit of the Big Book before turning in. But first I have to update my status.
C. is sipping chamomile tea and looking forward to the morning.
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You are going to have the BETTER morning of ALL your friends!
And hey…early jamies and chamomile tea…I’m jealous!! Next weekend invite them to your house and serve them smoothies! Mmmm, exotic smoothies! You’ll be a hit, or they like alcohol better. Then you’ll know and you can delete them from your facebook friends.
Hugs and best of luck!!
Kathy
Ha! I know who D. is, and I think he could definitely use a little help from the Big Book! Now that you mention it, I have noticed lots of references of FB too. Kind of sad, really.
Recently I listened to the CDs: Simple Abundance by Sarah Ban Breathnach. I was so struck by how a glass of wine was in the “pamper yourself into wholeness” list . How can a drug that is toxic to everyone’s body… even nonalcoholics… be considered on such a list? Once I saw alcohol for what it really is and not this romanticized drink the media brainwashed me to believe it is, I am also struck by it prevalence everywhere and not just on Facebook.