This was a very proud evening for me. My trainer at the gym asked me if it would be ok to post any before/after pics to the gym's Facebook page because I've made a lot of progress. (and no, I won't be posting them here)
I tell my roommate, and he's thrilled. Then he takes an opportunistic bent:
"You need to get something out of this! They can't just use your pic like that, it's exploitation. You should state your demands, don't give in until they give you a year free membership! What do you have to lose?"
"Ummm, well I'm at session 25, and I paid for 50 sessions, and if I acted like a dick those 25 remaining sessions would be pretty awkward..."
"NO! You can't think like that, you've got to take this opportunity by the balls!"
My other roommate, a doctor, walks into the kitchen, and he's appraised of the situation.
"Are you fucking kidding me? Like, every business does that. The office I work for does that. That would be really stupid to make demands like that!"
He pounds at me another 5 minutes while I'm cooking, and finally I break down the real reason i decided to go forward with it:
"Look, even though I'm not on Facebook anymore and would never even know if people cared or not, my family would see it and could finally breathe a sigh of relief and not worry about my health anymore. I want to do it for them."
That shut him up and he got really bashful. I'm really not angry over it or even mildly annoyed. I KNOW he was drunk. And who am I to judge? How many people have I annoyed acting like that and never even realized it?
This also has important baclofen implications. Even though I majorly cut down on socializing with my drinking crowd after switching, I still text them when I drink. Many times I've gone through the previous night's texts to realize how little self control I had over what I said even after small amounts of alcohol. Even though I'm indifferent, there's still probably frontal lobe damage that's been done.
I tell my roommate, and he's thrilled. Then he takes an opportunistic bent:
"You need to get something out of this! They can't just use your pic like that, it's exploitation. You should state your demands, don't give in until they give you a year free membership! What do you have to lose?"
"Ummm, well I'm at session 25, and I paid for 50 sessions, and if I acted like a dick those 25 remaining sessions would be pretty awkward..."
"NO! You can't think like that, you've got to take this opportunity by the balls!"
My other roommate, a doctor, walks into the kitchen, and he's appraised of the situation.
"Are you fucking kidding me? Like, every business does that. The office I work for does that. That would be really stupid to make demands like that!"
He pounds at me another 5 minutes while I'm cooking, and finally I break down the real reason i decided to go forward with it:
"Look, even though I'm not on Facebook anymore and would never even know if people cared or not, my family would see it and could finally breathe a sigh of relief and not worry about my health anymore. I want to do it for them."
That shut him up and he got really bashful. I'm really not angry over it or even mildly annoyed. I KNOW he was drunk. And who am I to judge? How many people have I annoyed acting like that and never even realized it?
This also has important baclofen implications. Even though I majorly cut down on socializing with my drinking crowd after switching, I still text them when I drink. Many times I've gone through the previous night's texts to realize how little self control I had over what I said even after small amounts of alcohol. Even though I'm indifferent, there's still probably frontal lobe damage that's been done.
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