My AF Journey Journal
Day 30-just beginning but no worries!!
Had a great day 29!! Went to a papillon playdate-first one this year. It was big-about 50 dogs and their owners and we were very lucky that Mom Nature held off on her storms until we were almost done. It was great to catch up with people I only see once or twice a year but "see" on line everyday. The food was great-we have so many innovative cooks in this group-and the activities were so much fun. LM made his mark as usual but in addition to being loud, he preformed a new trick even I didn't know he could do: he opened up a small cooler and stole 2 boneless cooked chicken breasts out of it!! I was mortified as I realized that the poor woman who had been doggled was talking about MY guy!!! It turns out the woman's dog is on a very restricted diet and chix breasts are his one and only treat!! Well, needless to say LM earned a very long time out and was put on lead for the rest of the afternoon. Other than that, all 3 boys won first place in a fun match: Mickey for largest pap, Koby my devil dog for most color and LM for best rescue. Obviously the judge hadn't heard about his thievery :H:H . They are now sporting blue ribbons on their crates and got cute squeaky toys as prizes. By the time we got home and settled it was close to 8. I managed to stay on the MWO site for another 2 hours tho LOL and then off to dream land. Unfortunately they all had too many treats at the party so it was up and down in and out. Sigh.
Have a somewhat lazy day planned today, my last day of vacation :upset:
We have a stormy day ahead so there will be no walks, no outside chores. I'll try to give the whole house another good cleaning, do some laundry, shop for the next week and if time, work on my budget so I can be sure I can quit my Saturday job altogether.
One note about Seven Weeks to Sobriety: In the book she identifies a couple of different types of Alcoholics based on brain chemistry. The quiz will help you idenitfy your closest type and most of us are a combination with one more prevalent. She does recommend a number of blood tests and hair anaylysis to confirm but says it isn't necessary. I mainly got the book for the eating plan she recommends. It's basically tailored for people with hypoglycemia which she says the majority of alcoholics have. My blood tests said the opposite. I actually went shopping the first day of my vacation to get everything on her meal plan. I found the brown rice bread (at $6 a very small loaf-yikes!), couldn't reconcile with plain carrot juice so I opted for orange/carrot instead, bought the sunflower butter and then went on to the fruits and veggies. The whole premise is low sugar and being aware of hidden sugar. The brown rice bread is very very dense and hard to eat and it only has 2 grams of fiber which to me is unacceptable. The sunflower seed butter is good but doesn't have as much protein as peanut butter and still had a lot of sugar in it as well as being very expensive. Love the carrot/OJ juice. Also switched to plain soy milk which I like very much. The snacks she recommends twice a day are wierd unless you want to eat almonds 3 times a day which isn't very healthy. My new favorite smoothie to put my All One in is the carrot/OJ and soy milk. Tastes like a creamscicle!! I don't think this eating plan is for me. It's very expensive and I think it might be slightly out of date since the book was written in the early 90s. I'm going to give WW a try and see how that goes.
Will check in later tonite to officially end my 30th day of sobriety!!
Day 30-just beginning but no worries!!
Had a great day 29!! Went to a papillon playdate-first one this year. It was big-about 50 dogs and their owners and we were very lucky that Mom Nature held off on her storms until we were almost done. It was great to catch up with people I only see once or twice a year but "see" on line everyday. The food was great-we have so many innovative cooks in this group-and the activities were so much fun. LM made his mark as usual but in addition to being loud, he preformed a new trick even I didn't know he could do: he opened up a small cooler and stole 2 boneless cooked chicken breasts out of it!! I was mortified as I realized that the poor woman who had been doggled was talking about MY guy!!! It turns out the woman's dog is on a very restricted diet and chix breasts are his one and only treat!! Well, needless to say LM earned a very long time out and was put on lead for the rest of the afternoon. Other than that, all 3 boys won first place in a fun match: Mickey for largest pap, Koby my devil dog for most color and LM for best rescue. Obviously the judge hadn't heard about his thievery :H:H . They are now sporting blue ribbons on their crates and got cute squeaky toys as prizes. By the time we got home and settled it was close to 8. I managed to stay on the MWO site for another 2 hours tho LOL and then off to dream land. Unfortunately they all had too many treats at the party so it was up and down in and out. Sigh.
Have a somewhat lazy day planned today, my last day of vacation :upset:
We have a stormy day ahead so there will be no walks, no outside chores. I'll try to give the whole house another good cleaning, do some laundry, shop for the next week and if time, work on my budget so I can be sure I can quit my Saturday job altogether.
One note about Seven Weeks to Sobriety: In the book she identifies a couple of different types of Alcoholics based on brain chemistry. The quiz will help you idenitfy your closest type and most of us are a combination with one more prevalent. She does recommend a number of blood tests and hair anaylysis to confirm but says it isn't necessary. I mainly got the book for the eating plan she recommends. It's basically tailored for people with hypoglycemia which she says the majority of alcoholics have. My blood tests said the opposite. I actually went shopping the first day of my vacation to get everything on her meal plan. I found the brown rice bread (at $6 a very small loaf-yikes!), couldn't reconcile with plain carrot juice so I opted for orange/carrot instead, bought the sunflower butter and then went on to the fruits and veggies. The whole premise is low sugar and being aware of hidden sugar. The brown rice bread is very very dense and hard to eat and it only has 2 grams of fiber which to me is unacceptable. The sunflower seed butter is good but doesn't have as much protein as peanut butter and still had a lot of sugar in it as well as being very expensive. Love the carrot/OJ juice. Also switched to plain soy milk which I like very much. The snacks she recommends twice a day are wierd unless you want to eat almonds 3 times a day which isn't very healthy. My new favorite smoothie to put my All One in is the carrot/OJ and soy milk. Tastes like a creamscicle!! I don't think this eating plan is for me. It's very expensive and I think it might be slightly out of date since the book was written in the early 90s. I'm going to give WW a try and see how that goes.
Will check in later tonite to officially end my 30th day of sobriety!!
:upset::mad-door:Son of a B**ch!! Don't want to take my BP right now that's for sure!!
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