"Fuck it! I'm doing what I want!"

My time has come. I am officially 3 days away from THE best day of the year. . .WINTER BEER FESTIVAL!!  I know, I know it's JUST a beer festival (if that is how you feel then we absolutely cannot be friends anymore) but very few people truly understand what this day is to me. It is my one day of the year that I get to be a normal person and eat and drink whatever the hell I want! It's my "day off of Celiacs". Now I guess I should re-phrase I don't really "get" to do this, I choose to do this. According to my doctor "it's not gonna kill ya" (I may have had selective hearing during that whole conversation) so why not! I refuse to accept the fact that I can never drink good beer again in my lifetime so this is my way of making a deal with the gluten free gods.. . .I get one day a year.

If you don't know me well then you probably don't know the love I used to have for micro brew beer. Not only did I love the beer (mmm Vanilla Java Porter) but I loved the culture surrounding it. There's this whole subculture of brewers and beer lovers that was just completely me. And then one day I was told I have this dumb ass disease and my world fell to pieces. OK, that might be slightly dramatic but I did cry. It's one thing to go on a diet or to choose to become a vegetarian but to be told you can never have certain things for the rest of your life and you have no choice just plan sucks. I know it could be a hell of a lot worse. . .if this is my ailment in life then I am damn lucky, but it still sucks. People just don't quite get it. It's so much more then just not being able to eat certain things but I don't need to get into all that now. I'm excited about my 1 day and I don't care about the ramifications. Truthfully I have no idea how I am going to feel. Last year I had only been gluten free for a few months and it didn't affect me that much so we'll see what happens!

I think you should all take a cue from me and take a day to do whatever the heck is is you want to do. People are so freakin uptight now a days with not allowing themselves to eat this or do that or "I really shouldn't. . . ".  You would be surprised how great it feels to take a day and just say "Fuck it! I'm doing what I want!" In my case it probably won't feel so great the next day but that makes it even more important that I enjoy every last second.

My official list of gluten filled foods to eat on Saturday: a jelly filled doughnut, Pizza Hut bread sticks, an original chicken sandwich from Burger King (forgoing the chicken nuggets this year), and a Twix.