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"one drink" is equal to one ounce of hard liquor, or 12 ounces of beer, or 6 ounces of wine.  

If you open a large container of beer and don't want to finish the whole thing, don't despair, there are many household uses for superfluous alcohol.  

Mix beer into a beef and vegetable stew or a cheese fondue, or use it to steam mussels.  Or share some with your dog.

Champagne can be used to poach or saute fish (best with white, light fish).

My boyfriend has recently started marinating EVEYRTHING in Grey Goose vodka (beef, pork, ect...), and the meat turns out really delicious.  Especially when served with a dirty Grey Goose martini.  

Bonus- stuff a Xanax into the olive of that martini, it's called a Xantini.  Your friends will marvel at your ingenuity.

That last post was from me.

In most cases, I would say the absolute best revenge (on your parents) is to cut all ties with them.  Forever.  Just leave Asap (18th birthday or whenever), and exclude them entirely from your life.  

Do not spend holidays with them, do not call them or tell them anything, do not even let them see their grandkids.  

This can be very difficult, I mean, I certainly wasn't able to pull that off.  But it would be the best revenge.

I did have some depression as a teenager, before going to Provo Canyon School.  I believe this was mostly due to my situation at home, as I had a lot of issues with my mother.

This was nothing compared to the PTSD-like symptoms I experienced upon leaving PCS.  

The first few years I was out, I experienced severe anxiety and crying spells.  I was "shell-shocked".  

A few years later, I realized that PCS was in fact a harmful, detrimental place.  I saw that there was a reason for all the nightmares, crying, and general feelings of confusion.  After that, I did feel better.  I also felt like a HUGE weight had been lifted from me, and that was great.

A few years after that, I began studying psychology and sociology at college.  I saw how incompetent the PCS "daily living" unit staff are.  (they are not required to have any college education).

Then I went to nursing school,  where I learned about these things on a "professional" level, and then I just became angry.  

I was particuarly irate at my parents, for not doing their homework before sending me there (to their credit, there was no internet back then, and they are not medical professionals.  Also, my mother has apologized profusely).  I just think they should have investigated more thoroughly, before commiting me there, and also that they should have been more keen to the signs of abuse and all the "red flags" and the dysfunction of the program.

I do make fun of Christians.  

But these Muslim protesters are behaving just as ridiculously as our Christians here.

Again, I ask...who thinks these people are ready for democracy??  Only an ethno-centric idiot would think so.  

Look how these people react to a free press!  As for "free elections"-  look at that nut who runs Iran!  

Saddam doesn't look so bad now, does he...

I don't know...there are some pretty crazy Christian fundamentalists out there... Anyone saw that show "Wife Swap" the other night?  

Those people who home school their 8 children because they don't want them taking sex ed at school.  20% of their kids $2 allowance goes to "God".  

And they apparantely are living in such poverty that people leave bags of used clothing outside their van at church, to which the father proclaims "God has provided again!"  

Their 15 y.o. son stated that he's glad he doesn't go to real school, because he doesn't "have to deal with the drugs and the alcohol and the cigarettes".  

I wonder, where are these kids going to go once they are 18?  Or 25?  

Or perhaps you have seen that family who was profiled on the Discovery Channel- the Dugger family, I think.  They have 17 KIDS!!   And they are living in a house with 2 bathrooms!

The father was offered a position in the Arkansas state Congress, or something like that, even though he has no college education whatsoever!  Purely to promote the Christian-fundamentalist agenda.   Their kids are home-schooled, also.  

Their daughters are not allowed to wear pants, they wear only long skirts.  Check out their website, even their bathing suits involve long sleeves and skirts.  

It also seems they are feeding their kids slop!  Their website lists "favorite recipes", all of which involve tater tots and lots of processed foods, lacking nutritional value.  Seems they don't eat much fresh fruit and veggies.  

I guess none of their "moral values" include teaching children about healthy eating habits, nor do they "value" responsible family and social planning and only having as many children as you can adequetly provide for.

Oh, shit.  I'm sorry!