If I were to dance naked, I probably wouldn't choose the salad shooter as my dance partner, though, so I'm sticking with my original thought.

It just painted such a funny mental picture....

...I forgot to 'welcome to DU'.

I was afraid I had offended you, which was certainly not my intent.

I was wondering

Not all of the hearts I'm giving away are to those I dis...agree with. Just some. I've been skipping around Meta like damned Cupid.

He'll come out of Meta needing a diaper change..and a shot of good whiskey.

I had a new bourbon delivered today.... I think I shall try it out!

I stay away from brown alcohol, now. Gin is nicer to me.

pour the gin into a martini glass, wave the vermouth bottle over the glass and throw in 3 olives....perfection.

I'm a pretty moderate drinker these days, so I can drink anything that tickles my taste buds...and this small batch bourbon is the smoothest thing I have ever tasted.

Now I want a martini. Alcohol does horrible things to my fibromyalgia, so I drink very rarely. My DIL got me hooked on Sake...plum is my favorite. But, that's the absolute worst. I have one small glass and I feel like I've been run over by a train right after the truck hit me.

I have a good friend who suffers with fibromyalgia. It took doctors 20 years to diagnose her. She doesn't drink either...said it always gave her an excruciating headache within 10 minutes of taking the first sip...and that was years before she was diagnosed. I wonder if there is a connection.

Research has been ridiculously slow. I was diagnosed about 15 years ago. It was only recently they discovered the majority of sufferers have low blood pressure. Mine is so low I had a doctor tell me I should be dead.

That's about the same time my friend was diagnosed...after years of being tested for MS and a host of other diseases....

Back then, most people (and most doctors) believed it was all in your head. For years afterward I went through some harsh denial. Pushed myself harder at the gym. Hiked every possible weekend. Really beat myself up. It made it worse. It was many years before people stopped believing it was all imagined. Many still do.

She was, and still is a jogger, and used to push herself to keep jogging even when she having her 'ache' Fortunately she was not intimidated by those who said it was in her head...and none of her friends would ever have thought so as she made very few concessions to her 'ache'. You knew if you found her sitting with a heating pad on her neck she was in real pain, you could see it on her face. I always thought it was so unfair, she was so active while I was always perfectly content to be curled up with a book.... When she couldn't jog, work in the yard or do a thousand other physical activities, she was miserable.

People can be so ignorant and cruel.