Ok, that's it.  I am officially, really and truly, sick of food and wine.  Today we celebrated Christmas with the Grandparents which means an afternoon meal lasting a couple of hours.  Four appetizers (salami, frittata, roast peppers with anchovies, chicken and pistachio salad) stuffed pasta with meat sauce,veal roast, vegetables (spinach and artichokes) and Christmas cake and fruit and chocolates with white wine to start, red in the middle and white bubbly at the end.  I slept for a while on the sofa afterwards while grace played cards with her Grandparents.  Now I am declaring that I will be on a strictly "what I don't eat here and miss" diet when we are home for the holidays.  No wine.  Beer yes, but no wine.  I am now going to bed but first may drink an alka seltzer.  xxoo me