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Drinking Is Good For You....Really

A drink a day keeps the shrink away...(I'll get back to that in a second...)

But first... 

I am on a new "health" kick.  When I'm 60, I want to be a smoking hot grandma.  I am totally inspired by an older couple at the gym whom are in their 60's and could kick my butt on my best day.  They are in great shape and look amazing.  I think we can all relate.  In general, we all want to be happy, healthy, and good looking.

We have heard it a thousand times, diet...exercise are the keys to living a healthy and happy life.  I totally buy into that.  I could go on a tangent about how prescription pills are an absolute scam (granted some people actually need them, or they would die) but I think most problems can be solved by good ol' diet and exercise.  Mental and physical health, I might add.  Seriously, I can be seen as one of the most high strung people out there.  If I went to a shrink, they would probably put me on so much anti-anxiety crap that I would be in a coma.  But the truth is, I like myself the way I am.  My "anxiety" helps me get shit done (have you seen my house, you could eat off my kitchen floors).  I deal with the extra anxiety by exercise.  Exercise is my drug of choice.  

But I have another drug of choice.  Booze.  Spare me the AA talk people, I have something to back my drink a day habit.  And seriously, generally speaking, I keep it to a drink a day...like a glass of wine or one beer.  I have a special glass I reserve for only Saturday nights....can you guess which one? 

See the bottle of wine in the back ground, I'll get back to that a little later as well.....
We have probably all heard that a glass of red wine a night is good for your heart, but I recently found out that it is a lot better for you than that.  According to a recent study, moderate drinking (one drink a day for women and two for men) is attributed to the following:

Reduces risk for stroke
Reduces risk for diabetes
Reduces risk for heart disease
Less likely to die of a heart attack
Less likely to develop dementia (Alzhimers is a form of this) 
Less likely to be over weight
Less likely to be depressed (even though it is a depressant, interesting) 
Overall live longer than those who don't drink

I'll drink to that.

So diet, exercise, and a drink a day--you're golden.  

Alright, back to the bottle of wine in the above picture.  You will notice, there is no label on that wine.  Why?  Because it is my grandpa's famous homemade wine.  Seriously, he needs to open his own winery or something.  His wine is simply the best tasting wine I have ever had.  And let's face it, I've had a fare share of wine.  His wine, however, is very very sneaky as it is about 20% alcohol content. That's what I love about my family.  When we do something, we do it right.  

Switching gears, if you have your computer on mute, you should turn the sound on.  I found out a way to  add a playlist to my blog.  Pretty excited about it.  I added a few songs that I have been really into lately.  I hope you enjoy.  It works on most phones as well.  At least it did on my EVO, however I had to go to the actual full site version of my blog and not the mobile site.  Plus EVO is cool and can do about anything including translating my babies coos into actual words (long story, maybe another day).  

Speaking of my little kidlet, she has her 4 month shots this week.  Boo.  She is getting so big so fast.  She babbles all the time and I am seeing more and more the type of personality she is going to have.  She looks just like her dad (from what everyone tells me) and I think they have similar temperaments.  So what I am saying is, the chances of me only having one drink a night is unlikely (I'm sorta kidding).

What else can I bore you with.

My weekends been pretty good so far.  Yesterday I went and visited a girlfriend.  Holler! It was so wonderful to see her.  Been missing her and her kidlets like crazy.  Then last night Ian and I had a little date night.  Haley went to spend time at her grandparents while Ian and I went to Luckys Brewgrille.  It was my first time there and I loved it.  The food was awesome, and so was the drink special.  Thanks to Resturant.com for the hook-up.  We love us some coupons.  

Today, I got the hookup on some mums that I need to plant and did the whole housewife/mom gig and cleaned and did laundry all day.  Then drank some wine.  And here I am....blogging under the influence.

Next weekend my girlfriend is going to be in town and staying with us for the weekend.  Friday night, we are going out.  Not sure where yet, but I am really looking forward to it.  

Well, I hope everyone is having a fantastic weekend and has been enjoying themselves with at least a drink a day.  Cheers.  

Until next time.....
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