The beer will flow like wine
After 44 days, tonight at midnight I will drink some delicious beers.
As you probably know, 44 days ago Lent began with Ash (not Ashe Wednesday, where we all play tennis and take books away from children) Wednesday. During Lent Catholics typically do semi-fasts for 44 days while Protestants stop doing a thing that could be considered a vice. Usually for women this means “stop eating sweets.”
This year I decided to stop drinking alcohol for the 44 days. Insane, I know. When I decided to fast alcohol a couple of my friends did too — which was pretty awesome of them. Over the course of a month and a half we’ve lost weight, saved money, found new non-hang-out-at-the-bar things to do, and saved Christmas. But all that ends tonight.
So tonight at midnight, you can probably find me, with a couple friends, at Ipanema drinking some beers.
Hey man, have fun drinking. But, don’t knock us Protestants for our suspect Lenten fasting rituals - the denial of sweets. I , for one, have been engaged in an eternal battle royale against the demonic forces of dessert, so this is important stuff (except on Sundays because when some Catholic friends told me that you can break a Lent fast then…Gelati Celesti probably appreciates this).
Btw, thanks for educating me on the new holiday as next year, I plan to celebrate “Ashe” Wednesday in full force! Oh, only 40 more minutes until cake!
— Conaway Haskins | @
The beer was delicious, how was the cake?
Btw, I’m not Catholic, not that there’s anything wrong with that ; )
— MaxPower | @
and the wine will flow like a glorious dream!
This is a Casey Abrams song! It just came on Pandora.
— RMSzero | @
The cake was great, and the blackberry cobbler was even better! Here’s a blasphemous secret that I can no longer keep classified: Food Lion’s cakes are cheaper and more moist than Ukrops.
As for not being Catholic, sorry for the confusion. Welcome back to the land of alcohol. Life’s better here..
— Conaway Haskins | @