My latest vice . . .
I mean, I gave up smoking a week or so before the pneumonia episode in April and I haven’t touched a drop of wine since May 4th (but who’s counting?) so it was really just a matter of time before a new vice came along.
For the record, I’m not really one for sweets. I usually (but not always) have a couple of ice creams during the summer months, vanilla being my favourite flavour. But then the other night I suddenly got an urge to murder a Magnum! Since then I’ve moved on to Häagan Dazs strawberries & cream (pictured above) and want to get some vanilla next. I don’t know what’s come over me. Luckily it hasn’t affected my weight loss. I’m now down eight kilos since the operation.
I’m sure I must still have some other vices that aren’t related to things I put into my mouth.
What are some of yours?
casa azahar 
Oh – I don’t smoke, I don’t drink, I don’t swear or look after other women.
But I lie 😉
There’s actually a Danish saying that the sum of vices is a constant. I guess it implies that no matter how pious you try to appear, you’re doing something bad *fails a stern look*
My personal view is “anything in moderation” – and that includes moderation. In other words, go nuts and have a bash at it now and then, too – being silly once in a while most likely won’t hurt and may well help you keep your overall sanity…
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I’m with SG V there!
Not that I’m any good at it.
My main vice is pigging out in the evening – as discussed elsewhere – don’t think there’s much else I do that would come across as a vice. Maybe that’s just my bias though!
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Hope you leave the cigarettes behind for good. Your health will thank you for it.
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“…vices that aren’t related to things I put into my mouth.”
Do such things exist? 😉
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“But I lie 😉 ”
Ha! 🙂
Yes, definitely no more cigs for me. I’m always amazed by people like my landlord who, after a brush with death and a month-long hospital stay because of his heart, went right back to smoking afterwards.
“Do such things exist?”
Well, it did take me awhile to find a vice that wasn’t related to things I put into my mouth, toby, but I suppose the internet is also a vice in a way. Though less so for me these days as I am taking stock and re-prioritising stuff.
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“I’ve never understood men as a vice, daisy. To me they just aren’t consistently gratifying enough to ever become addictive. At least with a good bottle of rioja (or dish of strawberries & cream) you know what you’re getting and don’t end up disappointed.”
Substitute “women” for “men” and I’m with you 100%, Az.
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See, I just can’t eat a Magnum without thinking of the condom of the same name, presumably called so due to the XL size of the product. It may be my favorite ice cream, but I always feel sort of illicit when eating it.
The fact that both products are sold in vending machines here further confuses the matter for me.
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Not only that, Pipocas, but in those big ad posters for Magnums it looks like the model is about to give an ice cream bar head – now she’s confused.
Yes, I imagine it would be just as hit & miss with women, toby.
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I think we should go to lunch tomorrow and order two XL Magnums then proceed to eat them slowly and with much demonstrative pleasure.
Are you with me on this? Because I am SO ready for it.
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Okay … I’ll bring my camera. 🙂
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I like hokey pokey ice cream. with whipped cream and caramel sauce.
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vices that you don’t put in your mouth? Hmmm. I would say one of my main vices that I don’t eat is ETowers. An addictive solitaire game. As far as things I put in my mouth, chocolate and ice cream are my vices. I am not much of a drinker, never smoked cigarettes. Buying plants for the garden is a vice, I’m starting to think.
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Not a big ice cream fan, don’t drink much and never smoked, but dark chocolate with nuts is a definite vice of mine. As is bread and pasta. I’m a carbs freak.
Also, ignoring the phone and reading all day when I’m supposed to be out meeting friends is a vice I’ve recently rediscovered!
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