So, last night, I opened a bottle of alcohol I bought last week.
"Bootlegger Jack, Alcatraz Sour Apple, 12% alcohol"
It's a pretty shade of green.
I'm not much of a drinker, but about 3 or 4 times a year, I'll have a drink at night to help me go to sleep. Usually I use my hydrocodone for that...to ease my pain down enough so I can sleep. But sometimes, my pain isn't enough that I really want to use even half of a hydro, but I'm still uncomfortable enough that I can't go to sleep. So, I'll use alcohol to do the trick...it makes me really sleepy in like 10 minutes. But if I can't fall to sleep with 1 serving (4 ounces of wine, or shot of whiskey)...it's no use to drink more, as I don't get that sleepy feeling after that.
Anyway, I got out a shot glass, and poured one serving into a small juice glass, then I added 4 shots of non-alcohol carbonated apple cider to the glass. I wasn't sure if I could handle it straight...the booze that is, not the apple cider
It worked, I drank it and went to sleep pretty quick.
But then this morning, I was in the kitchen cleaning... and I went to move a vitamin bottle, and bumped it into that shot glass, and it fell and rolled off the counter and broke.
When my dad died in 1994, he had 2 shot glasses and I took them as none of my siblings wanted them. I use one of them to hold toothpicks...and the other I used for drinks. That was the one that was broken...and geesh, I never ever in my life thought I would feel such hurt over a broken glass. My dad had those 2 shot glasses since the 1960's and he said he bought them in an antique store...there are these air bubbles in the glass and the glass itself is kind of distorted...as if the thickness changes ever so slightly in various ares of the side of the glass.
I hate it when I lose little mementoes like that. : (
I guess if I had been thinking... I should have years ago just bought a couple of cheap shot glasses and used them and put the two I got from dad up on a shelf and never used them.
Stormy
