I Get to Drink Wine All Day! And other fallacies...

'Twas the night before Christmas eve and all through the house, not a creature was stirring except my dumb@ss. I often wake at either 1 or 2 am from stress or ironically, from a glass of wine before I go to bed. I remember some study (Dr Nancy on The Today Show, 2007? Who knows...maybe I made this up) about how drinking wine before bed can wake you back up hours later, despite helping you fall asleep initially. Ironic. Now I'm thinking how nothing is ironic in that Alanis Morrisette song...I digress. Don't tell me to drink milk either. I'm a lactard. Be sensitive.

My boyfriend is annoyed I felt the need to use flash at 2am. It's art...

The wine and spirits industry is a multi-billion dollar industry full of numbers and cases moving minute by minute. Million dollar marketing ads are tested and focused to increase awareness of brands. So when someone says, "what a fun job! You get to drink all day!" I sometimes slap them. Not hard. Calm down. 

If all we did was drink, it would be a terrible way to focus on depletions. We're racing cases to retailers at the end of the week. Distributors and wholesalers are duking it out over bringing in new wines to your state. We're working on a Saturday hand-selling bottles from a store after working all week. Hosting wine dinners at which we don't eat because we're answering your questions. Sitting in TSA lines, ready to strangle the person in front of us because they're on their phone instead of taking out their laptop and you just want to strangle them with the belt they should be taking off...whole other topic. We're getting calls on weekends, late at night, early morning. The point is, we're in sales in a huge industry not a mass drinking game. Although we'll sponsor one. Call us.

At the end of the day, my job is amazing. I've worked hard to get here, but it isn't an all day drunk fest. I'd get a DUI, sure as sh*t, while trying to drop off wine at accounts. That would be ironic, Alanis.