We don't drink much, these days. My adrenal glands stress out just thinking about it. But sometimes I get a run of good health that coincides with holidays and we find ourselves having a bottle of wine every night, until we have a little bit too much and then swear off it again, not touching it again for months. We are all or nothing drunks. I both like drinking and hate it.

Still, at the end of a long day renovating a house, there's something about sitting on the back deck in the sunshine and using wine to ease the aching muscles.

It started when we bought the place and got the keys a month ago. The owners had left us a bottle of wine and a card. Probably the least they could do for the money we paid. They should have left us a crate. Later they'd have the cheek to ask for the vintage lights in the hallway back and I said get fucked look on Facebook Marketplace and you can buy them we'd be using them. Mind you I may have been happy to hand them over for a crate of wine.

Because the thing is, we're broke. We have a mortgage we can barely pay for, and the old house hasn't sold yet. I'm starting to freak out. In ten weeks Jamie won't even have an income. So I'm tightening the belt as tight as it can tighten and selling a few things off and hoping like hell the house sells. Truth be told, I'm a little depressed and anxious about the whole thing. It's why I haven't been on Hive much.

So, if you gave me a tenner, I'd probably buy a bottle of wine or two. I couldn't afford fish and chips or pay the electricity bill or the car registration so I may as well get drunk and forget about it.

And here, you can buy 2 - 3 bottles of wine from Aldi for a tenner. I used to go for $20 bottles of wine as I figured that was going to get you something good. How the mighty have fallen. But truth be told, Aldi does a good wine. This one is about $5 or $6 and there's a good red I used to use for cooking for $3.28 until I was so destitute that we tried it and realised it was pretty good and didn't give us a hangover.

Anyway, it's the end of the holidays and Jamie starts work again tomorrow so we'll not be drinking at all again til the summer. It'll save us a penny anyway.

This post was written in response to the Weekend Experiences QOTW. One question asked what we'd spend $10 on this weekend.