Day #3 of 21

So today was also full of the typical reasons to indulge… but overall a very good day. My work went well, my youngest daughter solved some of her challenges, my oldest daughter had a great day with her freelance writing, my son was preparing for his last trip before fatherhood and my wife had a great day at work… which gave me a great reason to celebrate, so we went out to dinner.

‘Can I get you anything to drink?’ asked the waiter.

‘Wow,’ I thought to myself, and a few seconds later said, ‘lemonade please’. And that was that. Although a glass of red wine would have gone down nice with a steak, lemonade was just fine.

And then we watched a special on Randy Pausch, one of the finest humans ever to grace this planet, and between tears, reached for a cold one. But I stopped long enough to think about it and instead grabbed a glass of water, which was just as satisfying.

So here I am for the third night in a row without having ingested any happy stuff. For me, quite an accomplishment, really.