take february off
Posted: January 21, 2013 Filed under: history, pearls of wisdom | Tags: drink, drunk, history, my history, sauce 28 Comments »My dad learned to drink in World War II. He left a young boy and in the combat of Germany and the Pacific Islands he became a man.
After the war he taught, and while I don’t recall him drinking on school nights, when he drank, he drank hard. Each year he would give up the sauce for a month, just to prove he could do it. It was always February, the shortest month.
May you get through the hard times as lightly as possible. Sometimes that’s were change starts.
I used to have a friend that did the same with smoking!
A wonderful blessing…”lightly as possible.”
I hope Feb. is not a bad month for you.
if it is, I will just take it off!
sounds good!!
I hope this and all future February will be a good ones for you Bill!
and if not, luckily it’s the shortest month!
There is a certain beauty In February that I had never seen until now. Thanks for opening my eyes a little today.
there’s beauty all around us if we take the time to see it.
When I was young, I didn’t make much and I got paid once a month. You can bet February was my favorite month!
I would imagine so-I have never experienced being paid monthly. And I honestly do not want to
I have two birthday girls in February-one will be 8, the other 11. Busy month.
How are you doing?
I am well. We just went out shopping and found a nice camera for my wife and a new laptop. It will have to last for her birthday in March ( smile )
For your little ones, I hope your gifts include a good book to read aloud. One I remember reading to my girls was “The Blue Sword”, probably at the library.
I bet she was tickled
Yes, a good day. That plus a carton of TP. Life is good ( smile )
TP can be bought by the carton? Maybe I should look into that because whenever I go to the bathroom some random turd pops up from out of the bowl to say “hello there, you daughter left me here so you could admire me”
well at least they don’t leave the seat up!
We shop at Costco. The pinnacle of capitalism.
I remember when we toilet training, one of them looked down, saw the log, got scared and ran around the bathroom depositing pieces everywhere.
Those were good times, huh? Lol. I remember when I put my youngest CJ in the bath with my middle daughter, Em once and the little one dropped off one of the girls in the tub. Em threw such a fit! But boy oh boy did I laugh!
one of mine still complains that I never let her sit near the faucet ( so she wouldn’t hit her head ) and was forever doomed to the cold water!
Overprotective dad! Shame on you!
big time! But I don’t regret it.
Your dad sounds neat!
He was quite a character.
Ha! I never knew that
That’s pretty funny. …my girlfriends still are impressed that I gave up cheese for lent one time.
You are a tower of will power!
Your father showed wisdom both in his choice to cut booze out for a month per year and for picking the shortest month. I’ll bet he was wise in plenty of other ways too.
Russ
He certainly had a good sense of humor.
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