Tetra

I think a move to Florida is on the cards. It's 4 degrees outside but with that icy wind it might as well be -4.

I haven't had a drink in almost three months, but I have recently come home and inside out of the cold and all I can think about is a hot whiskey.

All I want is to climb into bed with the electric blanket, hot whiskey and remote control for the TV. (I don't know why I'm thinking about this as I never drank whiskey ever.) I know it would never be just one whiskey, if I started it would be more like one bottle of whiskey.

Anyway, I am about to climb into the bath with a cup of green tea instead.

Can anyone else relate?

karate

Decaff coffee , I drink it in the evenings when it's cold here .

Never drink hot whiskey , does not sound good .

soberhawk

I do relate to the cold, it is freezing here also – I am not missing whiskey though.

The Mexican gulf is doing its best and sending one low pressure system after the other over the Atlantic, but we are under the influenza of a high pressure system in Russia – I do not think we will get temperatures over freezing this week at least.

I am missing the warmer air from the atlantic and some rain.

hypochondriac

Yeah. My boiler is broken at the moment (it breaks down every year), but I remember the first time this happened I thought about drinking, like that would keep me warm... This time I just got an extra fan heater and a hot water bottle. Our AV will use anything to try and trick us into drinking x

jdooner

I was just in Moscow - never felt cold like that before - 15c

London feels like the Caribbean

Bubovski

No I can't really relate.
Expecting 35 today, hotter tomorrow, then it drops to 25, followed by a couple pushing 40. We recently had four in a row between 40 &45......

Odd that about the whisky~might indicate how tricky alcohol can be.

aasharon90

No hot whiskey for me either, but I grew up
with a heating blanket for all my beds till I
got to the age of menopause. I MISS how i
couldn't wait to crawl in my bed and make
it all toasty warm and sniggle in for the night.

Now, even in winter and a cold snap hits us
in Baton Rouge, I still have my fan on to keep
me cool. lol

A hot cup of soup, cocoa, tea, warm bath,
fuzzy slippers, no alcohol, relax and stay sober.

Bubovski

Fans are great as A/C TENDS TO BE CLAMMY, NOT TO MENTION NOISY.

The heat wave conditions will be over here in a few months........then we will all be complaininabout that long cold winter.

Mags1

Rain here all weekend. Yuk.

PurpleKnight

Yeap I can relate, and I was a whisky drinker, cold evenings and a wee dram was always a romanticised idea in my head, until it turned into a bottle and an awful hangover the next morning.

I've switched to green/white teas . . . just as warm, calming, without the hangover!!

Tetra

My Curtains are moving! Is the window open? - Nope - -Tis Windy!!

Actually my bedroom window sounds like it wants to come inside to get out of the weather...hum...might have to buy some masking tape just in case!

karate

Drinking some decaff coffee now .

Just got done with a workout .

Mags1

Tetra, every time I visited Ireland, it's windy. Lol

Scott6433

It's been in the single digits here lately as well and I too have been thinking a lot about possibly moving to Florida as my parent's are snowbirds and down there half the year. There is definitely something to be said about the benefits of vitamin D as well as many studies about seasonal depression. I realize in the end it's not where you are geographically that is important however I don't think there's anything wrong with wanting to go and stay outside year round.

afloatsober

I know that if i hopped in to that warm bed with hot whisky i'd probably not get out alive. i do relate to the desire to curl up and get off the merry go round. But in sobriety i have to face my fear. Face Everything And Recover. And it will pass...
You're doing good
Very good
G

Hearts

I had a hot toddy once when I was sick. I could see how it would be a nice treat for a normal drinker but... A drink is a drink is a drink. They all end up doing the same thing - sticking us back to day one, hating ourselves. If you're asking if I can relate to the cold, I'm a SoCal native. I've been in cold places for vacation or work trips, though. The worst was when I visited my sister in San Francisco during the Winter and she was living in this drafty old house with no working heater. It was the absolute worst because I was totally unprepared for it. I slept with a space heater near the bed for the whole night under a cartoonish mound of blankets.

FeelingGreat

This thread just shows how tricky the AV can be because we're in for a nice hot February, and my AV likes to suggest a cold white wine.
I would like to be in London where it's not super-cold, but cold nonetheless.