"I gave up on smoking two years ago,
and I ain't been drinking for a month now or so
I tell everybody I've nothing to hide,
while I keep the devil locked deep down inside," - Robert Earl Keen
As I stood in Gruene Hall this past Friday night drinking a cold Shiner Boch and listening to Robert Earl, I tried to remember just how long it had been since my last one.
It's been roughly 3 1/2 weeks since I started my diet which threw out alcohol, sugar, taste, sodium, dope, simple carbs and pornography. 
Actually, I'm lying about that last one, but it's still an empty feeling to be a man with no vices.
I can drink black coffee, which gives me something to latch onto, but sometimes there is a nagging feeling that something is missing. 
That something is a vice to hold close, and turn to when you need an outlet to occassionally blow off steam and take a short-term break from hard reality (the beer will be the only violation for another 5 weeks).
I realize this can be a slippery slope as many an addict has started out this way, and ended up on permanent vacation, however, I have no concern for myself in this regard as I've tried most things at least once and nothing has ever gotten in the way of my work, my life and my sanity.
My OCD wouldn't allow it to happen.
But now it's starting to affect me due to the simple knowledge that I can't indulge every so often.
I might not want to partake, but I do want to believe that I could if the circumstances were right.
Hell, I don't even know if I could fully trust someone who claimed to have no vices.
This kind of lifestyle can only lead to collecting way too many cats, practicing extreme taxidermy or becoming a serial killer. 
We all need an outlet, and while I'm in no danger of hacking up my neighbor, I am starting to miss a little vice in my life.
-BDS
Gosh, how long do you have to stay on this bloody diet?
I don't know--I'm voting for the "extreme taxidermy". Just kidding...
c'mon, man..not the PORN!! It will make you go blind though I hear..or is that something else? Remind me why you're on this diet plan? I may be about to embark on something of a similar nature...yikes.
You could become a sex addict (assuming you aren't already). Do it just right and it would be like an extra workout every single time. Win win.
Coming off an almost 2 month stint with not wearing makeup, shopping, eating no meat or meat products, no coffee, sweets, saturated fats or masturbation; I'm about to die.
All work and no play makes $2 a dull boy...
You don't want to end up like Jack Nicholson in "The Shining" do you?
Or maybe that's the goal...
;-)
I had a friend on a cleanse, i suggested we go to this amazing Indian Restaurant...she wanted to kill me :)
Good luck with that. I usually follow for a little while and then i break and devour everything in site. Moderation is key.
Luce - I hope so as I'm not much of a taxidermist, and I've got another 4 1/2 weeks left. A progress report will be forthcoming next week.
Jlee - I can't say I recommend it as I'm on it because of a NYC modeling agent who saw some of my limited work that I've done and wants to bring me to NYC if I can obtain "perfection" - whatever that means.
Jenni222 - You have to have an outlet or bad things will happen, it's just a matter of when.
Melissa - Sex is like pizza as even when it's bad it's still pretty damn good. Man, now I want a pizza. Bad analogy.
Stiltwalker - I'm surprised you haven't keeled over already, but that's pretty impressive for the longevity.
Kayla - That was a creepy movie, and I don't plan to end up that way but I'm sure that wasn't in his plans either. If I start posting the same sentence over and over and over again, please alert the police.
Miss Ash - I would kill for some moderation right now, and your friend was right as I am locking myself away from family and friends as much as possible right now.
Thats rough!!
I don't know if I could do it myself and I want to look good!! haha
;-)
p.s hot prof e-mailed me today, imagine my SHOCK!
Celebrate vice in moderation. Who are the men without vices? Pat Robertson? Jerry Fallwell? A few Catholic Priests? Warren Jeffs? Embrace the vice.
One beer. One Shiner. You have been pining for it in your posts. Enjoy the beer. I will drink the martinis and eat the pizzas vicariously (in moderation) for you for the next three weeks to ease the fasting. You know, anything to help. In a lifetime, 3 weeks is the blink of an eye. You can do it.
(And is that sock thing tied to the disappearance of hand lotion in my house? Just wondering. I think I am on to you men....)
Obtain perfection??? LOL LOL
Good Luck!
Just think of all the hot babes, cash and success your sacrifices now will earn you in the future. After that you can become as fat as John Travolta and develop all the vices of Charlie Sheen - good times to be had for sure!!
Dreamlover - I knew it was only a matter of time.
M - I appreciate the sacrifices you are willing to make and that alone will keep me going (if the thought of becoming more like Falwell every single day doesn't).
Girlbehind - Laughable I know. But I'm a man who likes to shoot high because if I miss it still won't be half-bad.
Idig - That's the idea as easy money, orgies, etc. fuel me when I want to go grab a 12-pack and a pizza. And speaking of Travolta - I've got a post coming up very soon about him. Good call.
woww that is rough =/
I hope you can let go some time soon, and just do something that let's you breathe!
This diet seems brutal :(
Good luck m'dear.
Mahalo,
Sahr.
Dr - I'll take all the luck I can get as this is a brutal slog where the pay-off is likely nil.
Gruene Hall.. What a great place.. Damn near a Texas tradition.. Last time I was there, I proceeded to get wasted and spill my shiner all over a couple of old timers, needless to say- they where cool about it. There is a great resteraunt right next to it.. I cant remember the name- but they have pretty good food : )
I've heard the same thing about the restauraunt, but I can't remember the name either. The Griss Mill or something like that maybe.