Now I am a regular Jack drinker, I like it on the rocks. I tried the single barrel over at my sisters house, was not impressed, don't get me wrong, it was good, but I prefer the regular Jack.
I was never a bourbon drinker. My brother enjoys sipping on JD from time to time. Neither of us are big drinkers anymore. Up until last year it had been close to 17 years that I didn't drink at all. I never quit drinking, I just stopped.
So any way, I saw the bottle in the liquor store and bought it. When I opened it and poured it in a glass it smelled a bit different than regular JD. After a taste I was a bit shocked, it was smoother than regular JD. I was shocked I even liked it at all. I spent the next 5 hours enjoying it out of a shot glass (not doing shots but sipping out of a shot glass) with a coke back. As I said I put a nice dent in the bottle, then finished the evening with Grand Mariner over ice.
Hangover was not as bad as I expected, I was wounded but not walking dead.
I’m curious why after 17 years of sobriety you bought and drank some whiskey? It’s none of my business just curious.
Meathead, that's kind of an unusual story.
It all revolved around the decision we made when we had children. After our first child was born Barbara and I came to a decision I would be Mr. Mom. Before we were even married we had quite a few discussions about whether or not our kids would be put into daycare, neither of us were into that choice. We were not leaving our kids in the care of others and not taking responsibility for their upbringing.
After my son was born ('96) I still went out with friends and drank some, I was never one to sit home and drink alone or even just have a beer with dinner or after work. We had another child in '97 and our youngest in '00. During those years I still met up with friends but a little more seldom.
As the kids got older and were going to school and involved in sports and after school activities as well as homework, going out became less and less so drinking was not high on my "to do list".
Eventually they all got into travel soccer programs and we were out late into the evenings from soccer practices, out of state tournaments and such. Also my being a stay at home dad was a bit of an insult to my dad, he thought it was beneth me to do such a thing and I could never do a suitable job because of many reasons including my "party hearty pre/post marriage carousing", I liked to drink and have fun. I was determined not to fail as a parent and a full time caretaker.
I cooked, cleaned, changed diapers, taught potty training, gave baths, cut the lawn, raked the leaves and shoveled the snow and worked on the cars. I did it all. I was at back to school nights and parent teacher confrences. We did the best we could and still paid the bills.
Teachers, coaches and other parents loved our kids, teachers especially.
Our kids were on scholastic competition teams in grade school and our son and oldest daughter went back to back '14 & '15 Valedictorians of their high school and my youngest graduates HS in June, she is 5th or 6th in her class.
We almost never drank spirits in front of our kids but there was always booze in the house. I don't think my kids have ever seen me drunk, I won't have it.
Now that our son is 21, our oldest daughter is 20 and our youngest daughter will be 18 in May the time has come where we feel it's ok to "relax our uptightness" and get back to having drinks on occasion. There is a way to teach responsibility drinking there. We've allowed our kids to drink here at home and at our neighbors house during summer parties.
As a kid I was allowed wine with dinner, going back to 5 or 6 yrs old, it was something Italians did. It was always very small amounts and it probably put me to sleep too which is nice for parents on a Sunday dinner. When I was in my teens, my father told me I could have whatever was I wanted in the bar but not to make a slob out of myself or over do it. I virtually never touched it, but I did enjoy the Sambuca on cold winter nights. I kind of took the same approach with our kids. Booze was always in the house, nothing was ever locked away and nothing was ever touched.
This past year I've drank more than I have in probably 15 years but over the years I've enjoyed a glass of Grand Mariner or some Courvoisier vsop on cold nights from time to time or just plain Blackberry Brandy.
So after all of that, I hope that sheds a little (all though long winded) light on why I decided to kick back and relax a little, it's finally our time to enjoy ourselves a bit, we've earned it.
Peace.
