Healthy living v alcohol and cigarettes

My ambition for the past weekend was to have a great time without alcohol, coffee, cheese, or chocolate. After last weekend's ATP + London trip, i figured that was just what I needed.
It worked remarkably well, thanks to great location and beautiful scenery. Nothing can inspire a healthy lifestyle more than a trip to the French alps or a visit to the botanical garden. I did both.

French alpine landscape was great. It looked like this:


And sounded like this:




Makes you want to indulge in spring water and raw vegetables, doesn't it?


Went to Botanical garden yesterday, and saw a small boy ride a gigantic ant. Freaky.




Anyway, like I said: it went remarkably well. Until yesterday evening, when a friend called and announced that she'd just been dumped by the love of her life. She was obviously devastated, but found a certain amount of comfort in the fact that she'd found a way to 'deal with the situation'. This way of dealing turned out to involve drinking a lot of wine and starting to smoke (also considering smoking weed). The reason for this being that the boy who crushed her heart is in AA, and can do none of the above...

So, what to do? Naturally, I told her to come over. When she said that she was going to bring a bottle of wine, I couldn't really tell her 'sorry, but I'm not drinking this weekend', especially since that is something her ex would have said. So, hence, my healthy week and a half (this is for how long I had planned to avoid alcohol) had come to an abrupt ending after almost 5 days.
It turned out that the smoking thing was a serious and carefully planned idea. She'd bought a pack of cigarettes on the way, as well as a lighter. So last night I witnessed her having her first ever cigarette. In order to guide and accompany her, Matt and I shared one too. This was the first time I'd touched a cigarette in about two years (gave up being a social smoker 4 years ago). Unfortunately, I enjoyed it much more than I wanted to.
Not sure that the drinking or the smoking will help her feeling better, but being self destructive is sometimes a great pass time.

And I don't know if it's because of the alpine air, the healthy food, the walking, the pints of water and the 9 h of sleep a night, or if it's because of the wine and cigarettes, but I'm feeling remarkably refreshed and energetic today.