Apologies!

So sorry for not posting for a while. I don’t know where these past two weeks have gone?! We are nearly in the middle of January already; mad!

I’m not going to lie, this week has been an absolute twat, and I have thought several times that a nice glass of red would help ease the situation. Sarah gave me an amazing tip in 2020 which was to ‘play the film to the end’. This helped me enourmously last time and has been the one thing that has kept me sane this week. Having a drink wouldn’t make my week any less shit; to the contrary, it would mean I still had to deal with everything, but with a fuzzy head!

Last weekend was interesting too. One of Sarah’s Thoughts For The Day last week was to make sure I have a plan for the weekend. Well…. That didnt happen, and I fell into the weekend feeling stressed and tired. Friday night was ok. I had some Alcohol Free (AF) beers (lucky saint, they are lovely!) and had a friend round to play board games which we do every Friday. Although we ended up just watching tele! Saturday we had a slow start, then the three of us went swimming. We ended up spending the whole afternoon at the pool, and when we got out at 5pm we were all shattered, and starving. Driving home, guy chirped up with “shall we just get a takeaway?” “That sounds like a great id…… Oh BOLLOCKS!” was my reply. Never have I wanted a Chinese more than that moment!

So we went home, I popped some fish fingers in the oven, and some waffles in the toaster (this tip has actually changed my life btw….) for Joss. Then I looked in the fridge and there was nothing in there. So guy went off to the supermarket to get something for dinner. All fine, and no takeaways. Brilliant.

Then we sat down infront of the tele and I started to finally chill out a bit, but really really wanted a glass of wine! I told Sarah this, and she reiterated the point that, for the first few weeks at least its about breaking the habit, so doing the same thing but without the booze will be really hard. As will not reaching for the takeaway menu is I haven’t prepared properly! So, this weekend I feel a bit more prepared and have a few things up my sleeve, including a few goodies for the sober treasure chest.. I will update you all on Sunday.

Have a great weekend everyone. We have our first full working week of 2023 under our belts! Nice one!