I decided to give up drinking for awhile, no, not 'I'll never drink again, I can't believe I did that to myself!' But just 'Hey, I think it's time for a good body detox, ingest less meaningless calories, and spend less money on something I don't need.' So this weekend was my first over-weekend of it, and I think it went smashingly.
Friday night just stayed in and watched a couple girlie movies (yes, Boogie Nights counts as girlie) and was going to go over to a girlfriend's house and hang out but she was basking in me-time and I wasn't going to interrupt that for all the tea in China. Little desire to socially drink anything, although the beautiful tawny port that I had gotten myself to imbibe in over Superbowl was waving at me a little bit. Not too strongly though, so yay!
Saturday daytime was FULL! Went hiking in the morning, Silly Mountain with Erin and Orion and his sniffer was in overdrive. Such a shock, I know. It's just gorgeous weather around here, a bit chilly but the sun is shining in overdrive and I could still hike in long pants and shirtsleeves so that is good enough for me. Then to the puppy park with a picnic lunch, Orion got humped by a strange Shiba Inu and was none too pleased about it. Home for a nap then futzing around getting laundry and such done before I went over to some friends' for a party. Fantastic party, danced until the wee hours to everything from some good oldies, some swing, techno and trance, 80's kitsch...you name it we had it. Amazing what iPods and iPhones can be used for now. They had a hookup into their sound system so we all just had a turn as the night went on. I brought a couple bottles of 'kid's wine,' sparkling apple and sparkling grape and was a happy little camper. Came home and crash landed.
Sunday got up, made a quiche (and yes I admit thought about how phenom it would be with one of my mimosas or hibiscuses) then went over to the Asymmetric offices to finish a product photo shoot for my solar panels to homogenize their looks, didn't get home til nearly 7, wolfed some food down then went to see Coraline 3D. It was good....but, I guess not as spectacular for me as some people thought it was. I thought it was really neat and if it hadn't been hyped so much I probably would have enjoyed it more as I would have had lesser expectations. Meh. Came home, worked with the images digitally, sent a couple work emails and crashland. That was my weekend, I'm curious how much time will pass before it is no longer a habit to have a drink here and there all the time......
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Poor Orion. :(
ReplyDeleteSounds like a nice relaxing weekend, and probably a good time to try to test yourself on not wanting to drink... if you could keep up your will to abstain while being in situations condusive to drinking, as well as having people likely even specifically offer you drinks, I'd expect you're off to a good start. So long as you're not in lots of situations that somewhat call for it, I'd expect you could break the habit fairly quickly-- situations that draw you into it might make it a little slower to adopt.