28 days sober
I have made it 28 days and attended a halloween party with my husband and a friend over the weekend. The party was 45 minutes away and I did not want to stay the night so I was the DD which made sense since I was staying sober.
The party was interesting and annoying. I did a lot of people watching. Watched how normal drinkers drank vs alcoholics. Watched how sober people acted and what they drank. Why is it sober people bring 1 non alcoholic drink for an entire evening? They will refill that bottle with water later on but thats it. I brought 2 diet vernors, 2 energy drinks..monster that is sugar free, I brought a cup from home that I filled up with water a few times and I also found an unopened 2 liter of vernors that I opened and drank some of. I think I had to pee just as much as the drinkers, yet I was sober. I think its that I don't know what to do with my hands since I always carried a drink around.
After this experience I do not want to go to another party for awhile. I dealt with it fine, still do not have any intentions to drink. I know I cannot moderate. I know one will mean 20 and Im back at day 1. I know Im still vulnerable. My husband tells me everyday that he is proud of me for not drinking and said he liked that there was no drinking when he was home from hunting camp. However, he did drink too much saturday night. He felt like such poop sunday that he put off leaving to hunting camp till today. lol. Glad it wasn't me!
So day 28 sober and day 2 free of pop/soda..not even diet. I have been reading bad things that come with the sweetener in diet drinks so I am giving those up now. In the past I got what is called geographic tongue when I chew gums with artificial sweetener. So I gave up gum. Its kinda gross but its pretty much like you burned your tongue in patches. Then I noticed it when I would drink jim beam and diet cherry 7 up. So I didn't drink that much. I woke up sunday morning with it again and I had drank a lot of diet pop over the weekend. So no more of that. Which sux, I love diet pepsi and diet vernors. Oh well. My son is starting up some training to prepare for baseball in the spring, he is not supposed to have any pop, esp diet his trainer said, so that is easily done now.
Now I am off to do some grocery shopping..1st day back to work tomorrow since July 24th. Looking forward to it but not. lol Have a wonderful day everyone!