Whaddaya mean, you're not a lush??!! You have to be, since I can't anymore!! Okay, here's a deep dark secret! When I first started working my first job after college, I met a great group of friends -- one of them is still among my best girlfriends. Anyway, we were on a job out of town together, which meant dinner out every night. I would pick the restaurant based on what I was in the mood to have as a drink before dinner -- you know, if I craved red wine, we went to the Italian place, beer was Chinese, gin and tonic was the steak house. Needless to say, my dear friends nicknamed me.... . . . . . . . . . . . . .ready? . . . . . . . . . .here it comes . . . . . . . . . . . wait for it . . . . . . . . . . .drum roll please . . . . . . . . . . . "LAURA THE LUSH!!!"