LESS Alcohol ~ APRIL 2025 ~ One Day at A Time

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  • tmbg1
    tmbg1 Posts: 1,635 Member

    6 AF

    4 LA

    2 A

  • mfowler883
    mfowler883 Posts: 263 Member

    Yesterday was a celebration day, son got his certificate for the course he's been taking so we treated him to dinner at a great Thai place. Wife and DIL got their food mild, son and I went in for more heat. I had pad kee mao, "Thai spicy." I don't think the waiter expected me to eat it. Of course, the best pairing for brutal heat is a crisp beer - Red Stripe with jerk, Kingfisher with vindaloo, Chang with pad kee mao…

    Working on putting together the next phase of our business, it's gonna be WORK and it's gonna take tightening our belts while we get it all in place, but I think it's gonna fly. We're getting into the supplement game. First samples from suppliers showed up, so I crunched the numbers and made a test batch of our collagen blend today. It came out better than expected, we're REALLY pleased. The goal is to build a set of products that go above and beyond what grocery store brands are offering, with enhanced bioavailability and formulations designed to leverage synergistic blends. We're starting small, selling to our existing clientele, but the end goal is to reach a level where we can go national.

    Tonight is DarkWave, sipping a can of Real Ale Black Quad.

    6 LA
    4 AF
    3 A

    -m

  • tmbg1
    tmbg1 Posts: 1,635 Member

    8 AF

    4 LA

    2 A

  • itladyee
    itladyee Posts: 7,520 Member

    @mfowler883 ~ You got me over here cracking up!!! I first started this field as a programmer and it was the best. I didn't need anyone to tell me how well I was doing because either it worked (success) or it didn't (keep working until it works). People were happy with the product delivered, rinse and repeat. I left my first programming job because my boss started delivering items at 75% completion and expected us to fix it along the way. I saw clients lose money because of it and I couldn't stand behind it. A similar event happened in another job, but it was the client who demanded delivery. I said no, but everyone else was on board. I let them know that they were about to have a terrible experience ….and they did.

    Then I moved on somewhat reluctantly to the world that you describe, where no one calls unless there's a problem. I said that in a meeting once and about two weeks later, one of my controllers sent me an email that said…nothings wrong, I just want to say thank you! It made my day. When IT is running smoothly, every one thinks you're sitting around doing nothing and have no clue of the work behind the scenes to keep things running smoothly.

    Today - no one in my company has a clue about IT and its workings, so I basically can do what I want. We don't have any major projects due to budget, so it's basically, keep the lights on.

    Kudos to you running your own show!

  • tmbg1
    tmbg1 Posts: 1,635 Member

    9 AF

    4 LA

    2 A

  • Womona
    Womona Posts: 2,013 Member

    @mfowler883 and @itlaydee, oh boy do I understand the plight of worker who only gets called when there is a problem. My first job out of college was customer service for a health insurance company. I found your stories entertaining with a true gallows humor.

    @chicbuc what does acute pancreatitis even feel like? I would never be able to identify it. Hope you were at least able to connect with your doctor . Take care of yourself.

    @globalhiker great advice on tapering down!

    @itlaydee I love “wine down.” Great description of that after work habit. I am most successful when my first glass is club soda and a splash of cranberry in my wine glass while dinner is cooking. Looks like a sparkling rosé. That said, my nerves we very jangly yesterday and I made it a point to pour a glass of wine the second I came home, goals be damned. But today is a new day. If I have any, it will only be one glass-which at this point counts as LA. I am trying to get to the point where having AF days is my LA!

  • itladyee
    itladyee Posts: 7,520 Member

    Two additional AF days but tonight was bookclub so dinner and 2 glasses of wine. All good. Tomorrow, back to it!

    @SurferGirl1982 ~ thank you for being nice to IT people!

    @Womona ~ We will all get there! Immediately filling my glass with something else is Key!

    @chicbuc ~ take care of yourself. I'm quite fond of you! :)

    @NonnieDoiron ~ You're in good hands at the hospital, so don't rush it. We want her to be stable before release. I know it's hard on you as well…so thinking and praying for you and your family.

    Stats thru 4/15
    A = 9
    LA = 3
    AF = 3

  • Womona
    Womona Posts: 2,013 Member

    @chicbuc I hope your gall bladder stops being a brat! That’s a funny way to put it. Glad you were able to rule out pancreatitis!


    @NonnieDoiron you’re such a good mom. We just want to make our kid’s pain just go away. Glad the infusions are there for her, and hope her levels get to where they need to be.

    I had two glasses of wine last night, again. Sigh, but in the moment it’s so good! Today is another day. My goal for the next three days is to limit to only one glass.

    I am blowing off exercise today to proofread a big document for work, so had better get to it! Have a great day everyone!

  • SparkSpringtime69
    SparkSpringtime69 Posts: 1,451 Member

    April:

    AF=5
    A=10

  • tmbg1
    tmbg1 Posts: 1,635 Member

    10 AF

    4 LA

    2 A

  • Womona
    Womona Posts: 2,013 Member

    @SurferGirl1982 it’s a vicious cycle when you nap all day and stay up all night. I hope the baby steps you take to mitigate drinking help you get back to a normal pattern. Meanwhile, I feel your pain about certain foods not being good compared to where you’ve had the real thing. When I lived near Seattle, we couldn’t get a decent bagel, and the pizza was terrible. Forget trying to get a good Pork Roll, egg and chewy on a Kaiser roll!

    @NonnieDoiron so glad to hear that your daughter got sprung from the hospital! Wow, that infusion worked fast. Also glad you got to sleep in your own comfy bed. Makes a huge difference!

    Only one glass of wine last night. Goal achieved! I did seriously consider pouring another glass but it was easier to resist than I thought it would be.

    We are going out to dinner this weekend. Most restaurants don’t do a 5 oz standard pour of wine, it’s usually at least six. Which I have to count as more than one drink even if I don’t get another one! 😠. Of course, I could always not finish it, but I’m too cheap to do that! Haha! Another favorite restaurant gives a double pour of a mixed drink such as an old fashioned or a martini. Just a general rant, this is up there with so many more calories in a restaurant meal than cooking the same thing at home. But I do, going out to eat is one of my very favorite things to do!

    Anyway, bless us all as we head into the weekend, may we all stay on our courses. Have a great day, all!

  • mfowler883
    mfowler883 Posts: 263 Member

    Ugh the numbers don't work anymore….not sure where I'm at now. I haven't been drinking MUCH, but I've been drinking I think something every night, lost track.

    I THINK I'm at:
    10 LA
    4 AF
    3 A

    I'm so brain fried right now, crunching numbers, revising plans, going over formulae, researching hardware, talking to property management, trying to figure out how to make this all happen and it's terrifying and I know I have to move on it because it's the first clean exit strategy I've been able to come up with in four and a half years and now all I do is sit at my desk and pound keys, going over every detail of every aspect of how to get this thing up and running without losing it all in the process, scrambling for any way to make the money end work and beating my head on the desk because it all seems so mind numbingly futile sometimes but I KNOW it has to work.

    (deep breath…..)

    Son passed his finals, I am so glad to be done driving him to and from class. It was nuts, I was burning a quarter tank of gas a day doing it, it was taking me off the phones which inevitably means lost business. I have a 99% conversion rate if not better, AS LONG AS I CAN ANSWER THE PHONE. If I miss a call, it's a crap shoot as to whether I'll get another chance to talk to that potential client again. It also made a train wreck of meal planning, so we've been dining out way more than we should, bad for personal goals and bad for saving money to…yeah, back to ramping up the new phase. Anyway, all that is over now, we're super proud of him. I had to stay up all night Tuesday helping him with a resume - I told him months ago to start working on it and spelled out exactly how to do it; never happened. I managed to get him situated with a pretty decent resume that touched on several key positions he's held and the relevant skills he's acquired in those roles. He had a preliminary interview that went well, and he has a follow up interview scheduled.

    That means I have two weeks to phase him out of the family business and figure out how to cover all the things he was helping us with.

    (gonna lose my mind at this rate…)

    @SurferGirl1982, I didn't know Mexican food had heat….I'm used to Thai, Indian, Jamaican, etc. 🔥🔥🔥

    -m

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