IT'S NOT YOU, IT'S ME
Dry January, I'm breaking up with it
Yes, I do have a backbone. And I know very well that I could easily hold out for another nine days, but I was on day twenty-one this past weekend and I decided that this was a relationship that wouldn't work for me. Not that I completely overindulged this past weekend (it was just one glass of red and a gin and tonic), but I just had something to celebrate with friends I hadn't seen in six years. And am I really that bad if I say I find it quite boring without an alcoholic treat?
Our Theo recently had a tasting including wine, because if you're throwing a party, you want to serve the right grapes . But Theo, he was also team dry January, but he called this ‘professional drinking’ and that's allowed during a dry month. At least, he thinks so. Anyway, I totally disagree with this, because dry is dry and even a sip is a sip too much. Theo, I just call this hardcore cheating. Just so you know. I just admit that I have failed.
But hey, did you, like me, ‘sin’? You can either this read Renske's take on why she absolutely won't participate in the whole hype or go through this list with a few reasons why it's really okay if you didn't manage to stay dry for a full month.
“I just admit that I have failed.”
1. It doesn’t last anyway. After January 31, everyone just goes back to square one. A liver specialist at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham has said: ‘Not drinking alcohol for one month a year makes no difference. It's more important to cut back overall.’ So drinking is fine, but just be mindful of your intake.
2. It does have quite an effect on your social life, so you can schedule as many coffee and lunch dates as you want. Dinners are often the coziest, so you won't cancel those anymore.
3. And that brings me to point number three: ‘Are you pregnant?’ ‘Oh, how unfun,’ and: ‘But one is fine, right?’ you won't have to hear anymore.
4. There's absolutely nothing wrong with a medium dry January. May is also an advocate for it.
5. Our magazine is hitting the shelves this week (!!!!!) and we should all be able to toast to that, right?
Call it weak if you want, but here it is: dry January and I broke up this past weekend. And I think that's totally fine.
