Festering greetings, y'all!

I've opened all my prezzies! Was certain I could hold out, but couldn't stand the strain any longer. The accent seems to be on keeping me clean, given the amount of toiletries. Have started on one gift, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and got through most of it already.

Had very pleasant evening with neighbours with a couple of G&Ts and some very nice snacks - the two visiting brother and sister Staffy dogs also showed up and I've got a lot of treats wrapped up for them tomorrow. Regrettably, the male dog, Stanley, farts old cabbage smells when a bit excited, so we'll have to try and keep him sedated tomorrow when lunch is served.
 
I usually do a detox before Christmas, eat like a pig on Christmas Day and then carry on doing so for the whole of January [the worst month in the year imo]. However, this year I forgot about the detox and consumed vast quantities of junk food [including several boxes of chocolate] and also discovered alcohol [better late than never]. I've never felt so well in my life. And, have just been given the biggest box of Thorntons Continental that I've ever seen. The 'it's not Baileys but it's a lot cheaper and it tastes the same' that I was given yesterday has gone. Do I now do a detox in January...or do I carry on regardless? [At least I haven't restarted the baccy..yet...]. I usually get a bottle of advocaat for Christmas as well, which is usually consumed on Boxing Day to help me through the King George nerves [by the time the race starts I'm sitting on the floor saying 'it'shhh not alcoholic, y'know'].
 
"I've never felt so well in my life"... then keep chomping the chox, Moehat! You must've got a giant hit of endorphins and they've brightened up life no end.

Detoxing is vastly overrated, I think. Back in the 1980s, Mum and I went to a 'health hydro' near Hungerford (it's now being used as something else) and I did a week's fast while she just went on a light diet, with the result we both lost the same weight in a week - 11 lbs. (I loved fasting and did one for 28 days and lost tons more.) But there was a lovely old lady of 83 who'd driven herself and husband some four hours to be there, with skin like a 20 y.o. Her only 'secret' was to set aside one day a week where she ate no solid foods - just a soup, cuppas, and plenty of water through the whole week. She was absolutely radiant, slim, and mentally lively as a cricket. No exercise regime, no 'detox', just gave the guts a rest for a day and made sure she kept flushing the system with water (and she ate pretty much anything else she liked and had wine at meals).

By the way, just heard that the best way to avoid a hangover is to drink loads of water before going on a drinkathon - one of my neighbours said he'd done that yesterday before visiting some old professional ice-skater buddies (he'd found them all again on the Internet!) and, in spite of seven triple G&Ts, was - and he's well into his sixties - bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, and able to knock back two more G&Ts without needing to be helped home. Gotta try that out!

So, I wouldn't bother to detox at all. Maybe knock the odd day off here and there from heavy or solid food, if you can, and just give the innards a little break while they process the goodies they've already got? I'm useless at New Year rezzies, but having reminded myself of this trick, I think I'm going to go for it. One day a week or even fortnight without blitzing Mr Tummy is hardly tough going.
 
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