In retrospect, 8 years ago probably wasn't the time to quit drinking...

[Wetzelbill]

But I can tell you this, I think it will be a good idea to celebrate with a few on November 4th. Maybe even a cigar. And some pie!

Wow, I can say this, it has been a rough 8 years, I have seen so many people hit hard times. Family members. Friends and neighbors. I've seen restaurants and other businesses I've gone to from time to time go out of business over the years. I've had relatives and friends fight in Iraq.

We've all been tested.

But things are good. I can see light at the end of the tunnel. Still have work to do, but we'll get there.

I can feel it. There's something happening. We're about to make history.

And I couldn't be happier. :)

[Skittles]

1. things are not good

even if Obama gets elected, I cannot imagine where he will even begin to clean up the mess - and the forces are already in place for the economy to keep collapsing well after Nov 4. I will celebrate the end of the bush nightmare but I don't see really being happy for some time to come.

[Wetzelbill]

4. Debbie Downer!

When you've hit the bottom, just being on the right track is good. :)

[Skittles]

13. all the more power to you

I don't like celebrating when I see almost everyone I know going under

[Wetzelbill]

16. I'm just giving you a little hell

With me everybody I know has already gone under and is coming back. Well, I'm from a reservation, good for us is pretty much bad for everybody else, so I'm just happy to see anything looking slightly better.

[lutefisk]

15. I'm with Debbie Downer. You know what they say about that light at the end of the tunnel, right?

:toast: :hi:

[Wetzelbill]

18. Stay away from the light!

:)

[lutefisk]

25. Well yeah, but I think we're already in the tunnel...n/t

[hlthe2b]

2. I bought a really good bottle of Scotch to "celebrate" 2004--

Kerry's win...:eyes:

Obviously I did not do more than open the bottle-- then put it back on the shelf (I'm not much of a hard liquor drinker, but I thought it deserved something more than beer or wine).

So, do I pull it out for November 4, or is it jinxed? Seriously! It may be premium scotch, but I'll ditch it in a heart beat, if it means the difference in an Obama win or further demoralization the next 4 years.

[The Hope Mobile]

7. Drink something else when he wins the election . . . save the whiskey

for another time . . . the inauguration, the second inauguration . . . .

[hlthe2b]

10. Yeah... probably so.... I'm working as a poll judge so may be

too tired for anything but a beer at that point.....

[The Hope Mobile]

12. I am doing that too. (poll inspection)

I suspect I may still be pretty wired when I get home . . . but, then again, I'm hoping we'll have the final results by then.

[Union Thug]

3. It's the end of the world as we know it.... and I feel fine!

No matter how bad the repukes have screwed things for President Obama, we'll at least be back on the right track and that is enough to make me feel the same way that you do. Although I don't drink, I do have an inebriating vice that I'm not willing to give up and you can bet I'll be enjoying some of that on election night! In the big, chunky voice of John Sinclair, "it's allllll goooood."

[MarthaMyDear]

5. Yep...I'm very happy, too..things have been so bad, it's gotta get better!

[Wetzelbill]

6. oh yes, it has to

Most of the battle will be competent leadership, and we're getting there. :)

[Forkboy]

8. Looks like I picked the wrong administration to quit sniffing glue.

[Wetzelbill]

11. oh I never stopped

Hey a guy needs something!

[JustAnotherGen]

9. I have a bottle of V.C.

At the ready!

[kid a]

14. Saw a new Schweitzer poll today! Up x2 digits...looking GREAT in MT - worth a toast.

:toast:

[Wetzelbill]

17. awesome

hopefully that'll help pull Barack through to a win there too. :) :toast:

[Drunken Irishman]

19. Please don't.

If you're sober eight years, no point in ruining it.

You're stronger than that!

[Wetzelbill]

21. well I haven't been totally sober for 8 years

I'll have a beer or two once in a while. But I've given up drinking as a regular activity. I haven't actually had more than a few drinks at one time in 7 years? Something like that. I just don't like to do it. I'm practically a saint nowadays. :)

[sandnsea]

20. If you can survive this mess sober

You can survive anything!!

I'll remember to check in and share some pie with ya!

[Wetzelbill]

22. yeah I actually think I've only been drunk

Twice in 8 years. I up and gave up partying over 11 years ago one day. Then a few years later I did a little bit here and there, but once I moved out of my home state, I basically have stayed away from that. I was never an alcoholic or anything, not even close, but I have friends that ended up being ones. Just not my style, I'd rather read a book or watch a movie than hit a bar, lol. I only have a beer or two on certain occasions, like dinner out with relatives or something. I think I had the night of the 2006 midterms. :)

[Captiosus]

23. Know that feeling. I used to be a hard party drinker about 10 years back

I had wisdom teeth issues. Then I had to stop drinking after that surgery. I never went back to the same way I used to be.

Now I'm such a lightweight. My wife calls me 'her cheap drunk' :rofl:. Every now and then I get a bug to down a double shot of some pure Agave tequila. However, I don't do much more than that anymore and usually I only do that once a year, at best.

[Wetzelbill]

24. hahaha

That's so true! I had a glass of wine at dinner a few years back, damn, I was buzzed hard, lol. I'm a total lightweight now. I'm good with that though.