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I don't drink.

Seriously, I can count on one hand how many drinks a year that I normally have. So when my doctor gave me some meds to take that I could not take with alcohol, I was like, no biggie. Not even something that I have to worry about - because, I don't drink.

Well, T and I recently started taking a wine and cheese class. I started to go for the cheese, because, really, there's more to life than cheddar. And, since I'm cool like that, I decided that to try the wines, because, really, there's more to life than Manischevitz (All the Jewish folks in the house, say Hey!). To prove what a light-weight that I am, I once got tipsy in cheese class!

So, I got the meds a few days before class and, since I needed to have a three day window of no alcohol, I decided to take it a few days after cheese class. Naturally, I promptly forgot about them (Thank God I'm not straight, because I would have gotten pregnant a million times since I would never remember to take the Pill. OK, not a million times. That's probably statistically impossible.).

About a month later, I rediscovered the meds and I started taking them. I didn't even worry about the alcohol thing, because, y'know, I don't drink. So, during dinner one night, T and I shared a Cherry beer that we had gotten from cheese class (quite tasty, BTW).

A couple of days later, I was in the bathroom - where all great thinking occurs - marveling at how cool I was that I was able to drink cherry beer at home, when it occurred to me that I had drank alcohol with my meds that I wasn't supposed to have alcohol with.

Let me repeat that: 2 DAYS LATER, I realized that I DRANK ALCOHOL with my medicines that I was NOT SUPPOSED TO DRINK with.

So I'm standing there, having a mild panic attack and doing a quick assessment of all my motor functions and thought processes, when the sheer irony of it hit me. Leave it to me that the only time ever that I drink beer would be the time that I am on meds that I can't have alcohol with.

Isn't it ironic, don't ya' think?

Sunshine