Morning babes (just. Yes, I am still in my dressing gown, so it's morning here). 
Oh, you classy lady Isinde. Hope you feel better - alternatively, have an asp, I hear they're fab.
export - well done! I don't think you're kidding yourself at all - see how it works for you and stay vigilant, maybe?. I drink dealcoholized wine myself, which has 0.5% alcohol or less - some would say that's cheating too, but it works for me so to be honest, I'm not worrying.
hammy, that's hilarious! I'd do that, I bet.
I hate you people who can lose weight when you stop drinking - I'm on a bloody diet as well and still nada! 
jesus - so glad to hear you're not in pain, it sounded horrible.
I'm interested to hear what you say about the vodka. I can count on the fingers of my hands the number of times I've chosen to drink vodka, and I did try it as there's all that bullshit about it being the 'cleanest' spirit and least likely to give you a hangover. I don't know if this makes sense, but to me one of the things people say that made it easiest for me to pretend I didn't have a problem, was that 'real' alcoholics will drink whatever/ 'real' alcoholics drink vodka by the litre. I liked to think that because I was still turning my nose up at blossom hill I didn't really look like an alcoholic (obviously, I was just an alcoholic spending that special bit more ).
Do you really think there's a big difference in the effects of different drinks on addiction, or is it all contextual?